Heard the Beach Boys song “Shutdown” the other day, now can’t get it outta my head.
This is a great car song even though there isn’t a Cougar in it.
I’m sure a 427 Cougar would have beat either one of them.
The song starts out:
Tach it up tach it up
Buddy gonna shut you down
It happened on the strip where the road is wide
Two cool shorts standin’ side by side
Where did the slang word “shorts” come from.
Bobby Fuller and The Rip Cords are good.
But I am not familiar with Hal Blane or Mr. Eliminator.
Have to check them out.
Don’t forget Jan & Dean !
“Mr. Eliminator” is an album by guitarist Dick Dale, “The King of the Surf” guitar. Dale is one of the greatest rock and roll guitarists of all-time. He worked closely with Leo Fender in developing reverb and the famed Fender Twin amp.
Hal Blaine you have heard dozens if not hundreds of times on the radio. He is a famous session drummer and has played on more #1 hits than any other drummer. A lot of the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean songs you have heard have Hal on drums. Google him. You will be amazed at the songs he has played on.
Here is my all-time favorite Surf & Drag album.
Jan and Dean, absolutely!
Classic song. The music matches the the cool record covers.
steven
“I don’t like that surfin’ $hit… Rock-N-Roll has been going downhill ever since the day Buddy Holly died…”
Trivia time: Who said that?
In all seriousness, I don’t mind that kind of music. I have some of it in my collection. But I hear so much of it at all the car shows and cruise nights, that I never have to listen to my own stuff. I get my fill at those places.
John Milner American Graffiti.
Wow… that didn’t take long. Although any car guy would have gotten it easily. Nice Job and cool pic too. 
Here’s another famous quote, who said “To you I shall put an end, then you’ll never hear surf music again.”
The stuff they keep playing over and over at car shows and cruise-ins is one of my major pet peeves. There are lots of incredible and hard rockin’ surf instrumentals out there.
Not sure if it was a west coast thing or?? BUT I’m pretty sure it was slang for “race” cars. The era of big displacement small bodied cars had just begun… “Shorts” were any of the cars that became “muscle cars”.
According to the Urban Dictionary “shorts” are the end of a cigarette.
"to smoke the last few drags of anothers cigarette.
(Hector) yo Lopez, save me shorts off that square.
(Lopez) fuck off G, go get a paper route and buy your own biotch its my last one. "
I’m pretty sure that isn’t what they were referring to though. 
Jimmy Hendrix as I recall
^^^^ You got it!
Tho it’s not the putdown that it appears. Jimi was left handed and a fan of Dick Dale. Dale is also left handed and played a Fender Strat upside down so Hendrix, as a youngster, took note of that.
At the time Hendrix wrote that lyric (in “1983 - (A Merman I Should Turn”), Dick Dale had been diagnosed with colon cancer and he says Jimi was referring to that.
Ironically, Dale and Surf Music are still with us.
Yeah… Dick Dale performed at one of the night stops on one of the Hot Rod Power Tours I went on. Good Show!
Paul Rodgers of Bad Co. was another and Joan Jett still another.
Joan Jett and I have similar tastes in wimmins. 
Paul Rodgers - one of the best voices in rock and roll IMHO.
I can live with “Surf Music”, “Deadman’s Curve”, and the like; but I’m surprised how many people think of that genre and then jump straight to acts like George Thorogood and Sammy Hagar. What, there wasn’t any “natural” music for driving fast in between those two examples?
Somebody mentioned Paul Rodgers… I happen to like “Rock and Roll Fantasy” for some easy cruisin’ , and their self-titled song for ‘introspection’ while behind the wheel - but only if I’m NOT “in traffic”; because the change-ups between the verses and the bridge can somehow make your tires “bark” as you go through the gears.
Here’s one for the '70s band afficionados: What song by the Eagles is most likely to cause a driver to get a ticket??? At least it did for the 17-yr-old me…hurting a little because “the girl done me wrong”. And I can’t even remember the chick’s name any more.
And I’ll give you one “freebie”, to whit:
Anybody who chooses “Life in the Fast Line” gets THE GONG and an admonishment to go back and actually LISTEN to the lyrics and instrumentals of that song and the correct song. And wipe the white powdery substance off your nostrils and upper lip! 
(Another one: The real freebie was before I announced “the Freebie”; and the ticket was for ‘power display’ (he let me off on the 62MPH in a 35 zone), from a stoplight, in my Dad’s 1970 F100 4x4 with a wide-ratio NP435 4-spd.)
This is for the “gold leaf” toilet plunger! 
