The Encyclopedia of Surfing (a foundational text by Matt Warshaw, 2003, also permanently updating at ) describes surf music as a pulsating, reverb-heavy, wet-sounding instrumental form, with a hammering guitar-pick attack on a single string while sliding the fret hand high to low. When Dick Dale himself is asked, by The Surfer magazine in 2010, what he thinks surf music is, he answers: A: Well, what it is, is the meaning of the sounds of the waveslike the echo and the sounds of the tube when my finger would be in the wall and I could hear it go, Chhhhhhhhhhh! And I'd take my strings and go, Weeeeeeer! And then you get that rumble just before you're going to be flung overyou knowright before you're going to go over the fucking falls and get slammed down
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Its easy to find thousands of blog posts extolling the lifestyles of the Abkhasians, telling us all to eat and work and live like they do in order to live forever except none of this matters, because the Abkhasians dont, in fact, live any longer than anyone else