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John Severson's Surf Scene

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Marc Myers
Feb 03, 2015
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Another long day of snow and sleet in New York sent me off to my iTunes library and my surf-rock folder. There, I have a few hundred shack tracks from the early 1960s by groups like the Tandems, the Vibrants and Johnny and the Shy Guys. I've always loved the romance of surf culture and the raw, drum-driven rock that built up around it in California star…

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