Comments on: Ghost Riders In The Sky

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 01:15:28 +0000

I respectfully disagree with this analysis, including and especially Neil LeVang’s bio blurb. The others may or may not be of a type properly labeled “surf rock”, but Neil LeVang’s rendition, and Neil LeVang’s rendition alone, sounds like it belongs in a Spaghetti Western. Even the original (Stan Jones, 1948) version, which was actually in a Western, doesn’t sound like it belongs in a Western. But Neil LeVang here is more of a kind with Ennio Morricone than any of the named musicians.

By: Faze

Faze — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 22:25:22 +0000

This is great, I love the guy with the maracas and the notion that surf guitar was born on the Lawrence Welk Show. But that guitar sound might be said to have begun with Link Wray’s “Rumble” in 1958, or more plausibly (and twangily) with Duane Eddy’s “Rabble Rouser” that same year. The Ventures’ “Walk Don’t Run” came out in 1960s, and the Venture’s sound has been retroactively described as “surf rock”. But the twangy guitar sound didn’t get associated with “surf” until guitarist Dick Dale (“Miserlou”) started playing for surfer parties and dances on the west coast in the early 1960s. Neal Levang might not be the father of surf guitar, but he was definitely among the first wave.

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:13:56 +0000

My favorite version:
Highwaymen – Ghost Riders In the Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOWjX4BpC24