Friday, October 03, 2008

Are You Makin' The Scene?


The Fabulous Plank-Tones
The Fabulous Plank-Tones Are Makin' The Scene
2003
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The Fabulous Plank-Tones play the indigenous surf and instrumental sounds of their native Southern California. The band hails from the south-west suburbia known as Glendale, where they receive a direct, though long traveled, ocean breeze that fights its way from the Santa Monica Pier, down the old Route 66, parting the smog from L.A., continuing between the San Fernando and San Gabriel mountain ranges, finally arriving at the garage of drummer Art Chianello. And from the deep sea air it is where the four piece combo derives thier inspiration. The Plank-Tones were originally formed in 1984 by brothers Marty, Jim and Kevin Tippens on guitars and bass along with drummer Art Chianello. Jon Green joined on bass and guitar in 1998, while Kevin attended to his new family commitments. Over the years, they have appeared on several surf music compilation CD's including "Fiberglass Jungle", "That's New Pussycat" and "Better than Average Weekend". They can most often be found performing at various beach venues including the renowned Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum, Rusty's Surf Ranch, and Long Beach's Foothill Club
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am a huge TRUSTAR VIBRATIONS fun
from the first steps
like EEK THE CAT, you bring the waves
of reverb out to my door

It´s the first time that I write you
a comment
A VERY BIG SPECIAL THANKS
for all these top posts
keep on surfin

Again...
Thanks for this awesome posts!

ANTONIS
from GREECE

Trustar said...

Antonis

Thanks so much for the kind comments. Glad to hear you have been a regular visitor to the site. Any greek surf tunes we need to know about?

Σας ευχαριστώ που ήρθατε από

Trustar

Anonymous said...

Surf music is not popular
here in Greece
(the land of MISIRLOU)
The only true surf band is
the INVISIBLE SURFERS
BUT some times you can hear
surf sounds here and here
from garage bands or rockabilly bands
like Ducky Boyz, Bullets, Last Drive...
I have collect some mp3 files
with Greece surf instros
if you interest let me know
how to send you them

ANTONIS

Trustar said...

Antonis

Would love to hear the tunes. Hit me via email (in profile)and we'll chat.

T

RYP said...

Thank you very mucho, T!

Greetz!
RYP

Gyro1966 said...

Cool stuff, thanks again.