Surfs up again! A few episodes back we heard from the Monsters of the Surf Guitar, them rocking reptiles and low-fi lizards that hit the beach with us just as things were warming up.

As the summer went by, too fast as always, a lot of you made it evident you were craving more surf guitar, that twangy genre that ruled the charts in the early 60s just ahead of the British Invasion. If you haven't heard that episode, it has lots of gila monster history, ferocious feedback, and reptilian reverberation. Odds are pretty good if you dial back a few episodes to Old School Number 66, you’ll find it. But you don’t have to have heard that one to paddle out for this one.

I was even thinking of making this a sleep tape. Could people really nod off to dreamland while rocking to the memories of surf, sleep, and Stratocasters?

Most of these artists surfed the waves at Oblivion Beach, where their reputations came and went like the great waves at Wiamea bay. Can you dig it?

We’ve got guitars that scream like a shark on a spree,

And lizards that strum with wild jubilee.

The crocs and the gators are ready to jam,

With riffs so hot, they could fry a clam!

So slide on your shades and hang ten with the best,

Where the surf meets the scales and Black Lagoon Creature don’t rest.

It’s a wild, wacky ride and its just ahead

With monsters and Fenders and creatures who shred

Can you hang ten with the toes and the flying fins and fingers of the larapin lizards of the lost legends of the surfside sidewinders and their dreamy dinosaur dramas?

I thought you could.

The Original Surfaris start of this last set of the Old School Endless Summer with a track called EXOTIC. It’s the return of the Monsters of the Surf Guitar. Number Two. Just for you.

MONSTER PLAYLIST🦖

Exotic THE ORIGINAL SURFARIS

Gear DAVE MYERS & THE SURFTONES

The Breeze and I STEVE AND THE EMPERORS

Ishamatsu THE CENTURIONS

El Gato THE CHANDELLES

Pressure THE PYRAMIDS

Surf Rider THE LIVELY ONES

Midnight Surfer JERRY COLE & HIS SPACEMEN

Fugitive JAN DAVIS

Dance of the Ants THE STRANGERS

Bongo Shutdown NEW DIMENSIONS

Ram Charger THE DELVETTS

Yep THE SURFARIS

Scorpion THE VIBRANTS

The Gremmie Part 1 THE TORNADOES

Rampage THE CHALLENGERS

Cheater Stomp THE FABULOUS PLAYBOYS

Moon Shot KENNY & THE FRIENDS

Surf Medley THE VENTURES

Travelers SPANISH MOON

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