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Neptunis Rex posing as Laird Hamilton.
Amazing work. More awesomeness here:
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An Ear Candy Update dedicated to the reverb-drenched, pulse-pounding sound of surf rock. Stream online here: Download for iTunes here: Pipeline.mp3 This poster is yours to steal. Feel free to steal it at will. “How would you like to stand like a God before the crest of a monster billow, always rushing to the bottom of a hill and never reaching its base, and to come rushing in for a half mile at express speed, in graceful attitude, until you reach the beach and step easily from the wave?” - Duke Kahanamoku In the wash of the explosive cultural movements of the 1960s, surf rock came of age quickly, peaked early and then nearly disappeared, much like the waves the music mimicked. Raunchy sax melodies and solos, sharp, angular guitar lines and rolling drum beats are the immediately recognizable elements. Get a single coil pickup, a clean guitar and play as fast as you can. I hope you play this music as it was intended - loud, prominent and as a driving force in your life, if not for the rest of your week, than at the very least for the next hour. If you have any suggestions, bitches, gripes, complaints or praise, email me right here: Dukewilbury@gmail.com The tracks: Jack the Ripper - The Surfaris Pipeline - The Chantays Point Panic - Jerry Cole & His Spacemen Penetration - The Pyramids The Lonely Surfer - Jack Nitzache Miserlou - Dick Dale & His Del-Tones Fugitive - Jan Davis Shootin’ Beavers - The Tornadoes Midnight Surfer - Jerry Cole & His Spacemen Bongo Shutdown - New Dimensions Surf Rider - The Lonely Ones Theme from “The Endless Summer” - The Sandals Banzai Washout - The Catalinas Stick Shift - The Trashmen Spanish Blue - The Aqua Velvets Mr. Rebel - Eddie & The Showman Moondawg - Rhythm Rockers Walk, Don’t Run - The Ventures Share
Pipeline - The Legends of Surf Guitar
THE GOOD, THE BAD
the new school surf & flamenco
“Still look forward to gettin amongst it” – The Dark Side of the Lens.
This is some of the most passionately shot imagery I’ve ever seen. This stuff is simply superb.
Kelly Slater this week won a major surf competition in large waves at a notoriously treacherous venue in Tahiti. But the buzz around the Billabong Pro still is mostly about what transpired during an off day in the middle of the event, when more than a dozen tow surfers took over in gargantuan surf and participated in what some observers described as the most incredible and intense big-wave session ever recorded.
Waves at Teahupoo, which break over an extremely shallow reef, were peaking at 25-plus feet. The ASP World Tour had declared a “code red” situation because the swells were too large and breaking too swiftly too be safely caught by paddle power. Slater mentioned how they’re more like tsunamis because of the force with which the fast-moving swells shove against the reef. “They reach a point where they don’t get any taller. They just get thicker,” he said.
Tow surfers enjoy the benefit of skiing onto building waves behind personal watercraft, then letting go of the rope and surfing on customized boards. Many expert tow surfers, who had arrived in anticipation of the giant swell, eagerly took to the lineup, although this was no carefree day of surfing.
As viewers can tell by the footage, some of the barrels are cavernous enough to harbor a schoolbus. Just observing from nearby in the channel, a rollicking adventure in itself, is an unforgettable experience.
Among the men and women who conquered the thunderous breakers, including a handful of World Tour surfers and some who endured monumental wipeouts and can offer bruises and scrapes as proof, were Dylan Longbottom, Dean Morrison, Julian Wilson, Bruce Irons, Nathan Fletcher, Maya Gabeira, Keala Kennelly and Danilo Costa.
There were others but nobody kept a roster. It was not a tour-sanctioned event or a competition, just a very heavy day of surfing that, to this day, might be unrivaled.
As for the ASP World Tour, it now travels to New York, which is reeling in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, for the Quiksilver Pro in Long Beach.
(Source: grindtv.com)
The biggest Teahupoo wave ever caught on film.
Neptunis Rex posing as Laird Hamilton.
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