Surf music
Surf music electric guitars, often reverb or delay effects.
- The Shadows
- The Ventures
- The Chantays
- The Bel-Airs
- Link Wray
- The Trashmen
- Dick Dale
- The Beach Boys
- The Gamblers
- Duane Eddy
Tone[edit]
Usually clean amp, sometimes turned up to the point of overdrive or distortion.
Link Wray experimented with distortion, punching holes in a speaker with a screwdriver.
Spring reverb, but not always. Fender external unit. Plate reverb and oil can reverb also available at the time.
Delay - Binson used by the Shadows.
Guitars - Most often Fender Stratocasters, but also Jazzmasters and Jaguars. Other brands too, sometimes hollowbodies.
Vibrato - usually using vibrato (aka tremolo on Fenders) arm on guitar).
Tremolo effect (aka vibrato on Fender amps) - bias or optical
Tremolo picking - rapid alternating picking, popularized by Dick Dale.
Fender amps, development of the Showman.
Influences[edit]
Mexico, Spain.
Hawaii
Blues, R&B
Pop, country, jazz, rockabilly
Middle East - Dick Dale song Miserlou possibly of Greek or Egyptian origin. He learned tremolo picking from his uncle who was from Lebanon.