“60 Years On…” 05-29-25 playlist Hr.2
*The Waistcoats – What’s The Buzz
*The Atomic Mosquitos – This Jesus Must Die
*Pipelines – Simon Zealotas
*Crime Factor Zero – I Don’t Know How To Love Him
*The Atlantics – Superstar
Chum – Straight to Hell
Crime Factor Zero – Janie Jones
Dick Dale & His Del Tones – Night Rider
The Pyramids – Penetration
Blue Stingrays – Stingray Stomp
The Beach Boys – Surfin’
The Mill Valley Taters – Walk On By
The Ventures – Hawaii Five-O
The Surfaris – Wipe Out [Long Version]
Dick Dale & His Del Tones – Misirlou
Rick Derringer – Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo (Live ’77)
* IMC ‘Zine #54s Oct./Nov. ’03 Feature CD – Jesus Christ Surferstar – A Surf Tribute
26.75 years ago on Sept. 1, 1998 I founded IndepenDisc Music Club.
To Celebrate, during hour #2, we will revisit all the IndepenDisc Monthly Feature CDs/Artists from 1998 – 2013.
Supplemental Issue #54s Oct. / Nov. ‘03
Jesus Christ Surferstar – A Surf Tribute
Jesus Christ Surferstar.
Surferstar?
Yes, Surferstar. A Surf Tribute to Jesus Christ Superstar.
A Surf Tribute?
Yes. OmOm Music, based out of Rome, Italy is a Surf label run by Robert Ruggeri, a man with love of the genre. It is home to several Surf artists and has at various times released compilation CDs, including “That’s New Pussycat,” a surf tribute to Burt Bacharach, and “American Graffiti Revisited” a surf tribute to that movie’s soundtrack. Now, once again, Ruggeri’s OmOm Music label has produced a surf product that goes above and beyond your wildest expectations, a complete track-by-track reproduction of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” (note: This is the movie soundtrack playlist, due to the inclusion of 2 titles not found on the original 1970 pre-Broadway recording).
To get into the individual tracks and artist accomplishments represented here would be to diminish from the project as a whole…
Using 25 of the finest Surf bands from all corners of the globe, this double CD will grab you from the opening “Overture” to the final notes of “John Nineteen Forty One.” Whether or not you are a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s masterpiece Rock Opus, that details the events of Holy Week as seen through the eyes of Judas Iscariot, this is a “Must Own” for the sake of the quality, passion, and dedication that each of these artists put into the making of this album. I cannot express just how enjoyable this is to listen to.
Yes, that is Jesus surfing on his cross on the cover.
Blasphemous? Hardly. OmOm’s artist, Wayno, brings the joy and love of life, Christ, and surfing front and center to let us know, feel, and understand what we are about to hear.
The closest I can come to explaining it is with the chorus refrain from the track “Simon Zealotes” by the Italian surf band Pipelines, where they replace “Touch me touch me Jesus” and “Kiss me kiss me Jesus” with “Surf me surf me Jesus.” It is so pure and simple, so full of love and life, that you can’t stop smiling and singing along.
Surf Music.
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Surferstar.
Thank you Robert Ruggeri, OmOm Music and each and every one of the artists represented here; you’ve resurrected a masterpiece of epic proportion in epic style.
Surf me surf me Jesus.
– G.Gone
