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(USE HEADPHONES FOR BEST SOUND) [ You are free to copy,distribute,transmit and use many of my songs in commercials,you tube ,ect [ See licensing] Welcome to the sketch pad of my songwriting. You can download any of my songs for FREE as my gift to you. Thank you for your time, Craig Scott Manninen/CSM. Bass guitar-CSM, All 6 string acoustic and electric guitars- CSM, Harmonica-CSM, Keyboards-CSM, All Vocals-CSM, Drums- Alesis SR-16 except on'Surfin' which I attempted to play live drums on. A...
Planet Creep: Stomping, pitching mix of surf instrumentals en sixties garagerock. Surf and garage rock means high energy and high sounds and it is not played for fame and fortune. It's played for fun, for the ultimate feeling. Keywords: rough, tough, dirty, greasy, porn, romance, hotrods, movie score, humor, sci-fi, mystery, melancholy and fresh motor oil covered californian surf waves. Surf and garage has been developing itself for over 45 years. The movement has never been a prominent one
The Vara-Tones play high energy traditional surf rock in the instrumental style of Dick Dale, The Chantays, and the Surfaris. When the Vara-Tones originated in the early sixties, instrumental surf music was just making its debut. Leo Fender and Dick Dale were experimenting with the outboard reverb unit in conjunction with the Stratocaster and Showman amplifier to create what would be the forerunner to the 'heavy' rock sound. The Vara-Tones recently got back together to record their first...
