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Thread ID: 145613	2017-12-17 05:54:00	Bruce Brown Passed Away......	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1443486	2017-12-17 05:54:00	I don't know how much of this post I'll agonize over and redact - but I'll C/P from a letter I wrote to a couple of friends and see how it goes with youse guys: ​ In June of 1962, my parents and sister and I moved into Huntington Beach, California . Having come from North New Jersey, it was a huge culture shock . Surf shops and woodies, blonde hair, suntans, the beaches, heat without dripping humidity and a new music: surf music was just starting up . I had to give up my black chinos, penny loafers with cleats, rolled up sleeves and my DA for jams, huarachies, a 7'2" Ole and zinc oxide . Ask me later and I'll tell you what those things were . Surfers were considered lowlife beach bums . . . . . kinda what many were . . . . . . . but​​ there were others, physically driven and mentally stoked into the inner core of something that was almost Zen . Being: One with one's surfboard . . . . . . . and a wave . I was a gremmie for a while until i could hang ten, take gas and cut right and left . I aspired to be a hodad, and maybe i got that invisible badge at Dana Point's "Ruby Beach" in 1966 where I cut through the rocks mentioned in The Astronaut's "Killer Dana" song . Our motto was The Three "S"s: Surf-Suds-Sun . Later on a fourth "S" was added . . . . . more on that much later . Maybe not . Where "On Any Sunday" had been an ode to dirt motorcycles (by Malcolm Smith) . . . . . "Endless Summer" became almost the phantasmique-dream for every surfer . "Dirty Feet" was another movie about one of the multiple surfing facets that existed in what was at once a sport, and also a lifestyle and a badge for and against the stigmatized social acceptance rules . . . . . . . or not . They were one of the first Boomer Cliques . . . . . right on the tail of the Kerouac-turtleneck-bongos and berets group that was already sliding right-of-center to another que ala: Maynard G . Krebs, who later melded into the Hippies . This YouTube clip ( . be/hg4FvOi-N18" target="_blank">youtu . be) plays the theme to that first summer for me as a Jersey-kid trying to make sense of this new world . . . . . . . . . . . and of Surf City, aka: Huntington Beach . It would become . . . . . very much . . . . . part of my mold . I've included a few more links to surf music videos . . . . . be/9IYamklT9N0" target="_blank">youtu . be . be/zC9okWm8A6o" target="_blank">youtu . be . be/gzuSIi3TEKA" target="_blank">youtu . be . be/ZXyeb8ND89M" target="_blank">youtu . be and an album of mixed, original artists recordings . . . . be/ZXyeb8ND89M" target="_blank">youtu . be Obituary for Bruce Brown . . . . . . Surf filmmaker Bruce Brown, creator of ‘The Endless Summer,’ dies at 80 Bruce Brown films Huntington Beach surfer Robert August during the making of the film “The Endless Summer . ” (Photo courtesy of Bruce Brown Films . ) By LAYLAN CONNELLY | lconnelly@scng . com | Orange County Register ||| PUBLISHED: December 11, 2017 at 8:50 am | UPDATED: December 11, 2017 at 4:26 pm If there was one thing Bruce Brown was proud of, it wasn’t the accolades of his film that followed surfers chasing the sun, or the mainstream success after “The Endless Summer” became a cultural phenomenon even in the snowiest of towns . It was that the perception of surfers was changed — that the world got to see that wave riders weren’t just “surf bums,” as he said in an interview with Orange County Register three years ago . “At the time, surfers were considered losers . You didn’t want to tell anyone you were a surfer,” said Brown at the time . “It showed the general public we were good guys . ” Brown, who grew up in Long Beach, started his film career in the sleepy surf town of Dana Point but lived out his later years in Santa Barbara, died at age 80 of natural causes on Sunday, Dec . 10 . “Today our friend, partner, mentor, filmmaker, and father peacefully passed away in Santa Barbara, California,” reads the website brucebrownfilms . com (https://www . brucebrownfilms . com/) . “With Bruce Brown and his inspiring movies an era comes to an end! His legacy lives on with all of us that continue to carry his torch!” Brown was born in San Francisco but spent his early years in Long Beach . At age 11, he surfed the “green rollers that formed in the entrance channel to Alamitos Bay before the Long Beach breakwall was completed,” reads his bio . He attended Wilson High School and became a regular at surf breaks such as Seal Beach and Huntington Beach . He enlisted in the Navy after graduation, went to submarine school and finished at the top of his class and was assigned to Hawaii, where he started making 8mm movies . After his stint in the Navy, he returned to California and worked in San Clemente, when surfboard shaper Dale Velzy put up $5,000 for a film that would promote the Velzy surf team . Though his most widely recognized work, “The Endless Summer” wasn’t Brown’s first stint behind a camera . His first film, “Slippery When Wet,” was released in 1958, and was followed by “Surf Crazy,” “Barefoot Adventures” and other movies that were showcased in high school auditoriums up and down the coast, Brown narrating live in front of the salty, sandy crowd . “The Endless Summer” came later, in the ’60s, when he had the idea to follow two surfers following the sun . He tapped Huntington Beach’s Robert August, who had plans to go to college to become a dentist, as one of the cast, the other Mike Hynson . When Brown approached August about traveling the world in October 1963 to find unknown waves, August’s first reaction was “no way . ” But the next day, after surfing Trestles, August stopped by Brown’s office in Dana Point – where a map of the world showed all the potential stops during this dream adventure . It wasn’t just to nearby Hawaii or Mexico, which August had already explored through the years . Brown had his sights set on places like New Zealand, Tahiti, Africa . “We’re going to see the world,” Brown told August . “I said, ‘Wow . ’ We weren’t just going to go and catch a few waves and come home,” August recalled . “It’s a big deal . ” The team first wanted to travel straight to South Africa for the film, but it was $50 cheaper to go the long way around, stopping in countries such as Australia and New Zealand along the way, he said . A favorite scene for the filmmaker was the part shot in Cape St . Francis, where they discovered a perfect, untouched wave in a remote part of South Africa . “It’s kind of like a pipe dream . If you traveled around the world just right, you’d be in the middle of summer everywhere you went,” said Brown a few years ago while at a Huntington Beach celebration that marked the 50-year anniversary of the film . ( . ocregister . com/2014/05/04/the-ride-of-endless-summer-lingers-after-50-years/" target="_blank">www . ocregister . com) Distributors, thought, didn’t want to buy a film they thought would only appeal to the coastal towns . To prove to New York theater operators that the film could fly in places far from the beach, Brown had to rent out a theater in Wichita, Kan . Week after week, despite heavy January snowfall, it sold out . It wasn’t long before “The Endless Summer” was shown around the world, as far away as Russia . “Then it worked . Then it becomes what it is . That would have never happened if he didn’t believe in the film and doing it himself,” Dana Brown said of his father earlier this year . “It reflects the laid-back, casual stereotype of surfers, but there’s a lot of heart and grit and fortitude that made that film happen . That’s always impressive . ” It wasn’t just the-wave riding skills that captivated the audience . For a generation in the ’60s, “The Endless Summer” represented a sense of freedom, with viewers magically whisked away to a foreign land . “I think he helped shape our culture . He gave us all that idealized lifestyle,” said Barry Haun, creative director for the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center based in San Clemente . “It’s always summer . You go, ‘That’s what I want . I want it to always be warm and sunny and fun . ’ I think that was the main thing, he made it look really fun . ” Haun said, like many others, he saw the movie before he learned to surf and it planted the seed that he wanted to become a surfer . Bruce Chambers, of Rancho Palos Verdes, spent the past five years with Brown working on a 50th anniversary book and box set for “The Endless Summer . ” It was released earlier this year and now the movie and book are in the Smithsonian Institution collection in Washington, D . C . ( . ocregister . com/2015/07/11/san-clemente-surf-center-helps-put-together-smithsonian-exhibit-on-the-sport/" target="_blank">www . ocregister . com) Chambers said Brown’s passing was unexpected . The duo had recently done a book signing and had another planned for February . “I was absolutely stunned and shocked,” he said . Chambers said “The Endless Summer” is credited with “changing American culture . ” “That’s a pretty amazing feat,” he said . “That movie launched the craze of surfing . ” He described Brown as calm, quiet, laid-back, “a surfer dude . ” Chambers said he was honored and pleased to have helped document and share Brown’s legacy . “I’ve gotten many emails, people thanking me for helping preserve surf history,” he said . Brown in 2009 was inducted into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame, and in 2014 he was given the first Surfing Heritage and Cultural Center Lifetime Achievement Award . In 2015, the Smithsonian Institute had an exhibit called “Wave of Innovation: Surfing and the Endless Summer . ” Earlier this year, a 500-page book detailing the behind-the-scenes making of the film was released . Memorial service details are pending . :xmouth: Bruce and I were on first name basis as he had a shop on the same street that one of my auto repair shops was on . I never got to surf alongside of him, but I tried to follow in his footsteps as I surfed before school most days in Huntington Beach Union High School . If we went surfing before classes, we could skip out on Physical Education for the day . It was a great trade-off! I hated PE, so I surfed . joe vreeland	SurferJoe46 (51)
1443487	2017-12-17 09:35:00	PE or surf . . . . . Tough Choice :tui:	R2x1 (4628)
1443488	2017-12-17 09:48:00	Wonderful trip down memory lane, thanks Joe. My family drove the entire trip from Cape Town to Durban on holiday with my parents, the Garden Route to the Hibiscus Coast when I was young, went to Cape St Francis before it became well known for "the wave".	zqwerty (97)
1443489	2017-12-19 20:57:00	I think most Kiwi's from the 60's only new The Beach Boys, if one can associate them with surfing. Also Jan and Dean maybe? I never heard of Bruce Brown. The actor Jim Brown - who became a bit popular here - with Fred Williamson, Richard Roundtree, and Jim Kelly in those "Blaxploitation" '70's movies come to mind. Some older folk here may have heard of Joe Brown (Enterprises). I recall seeing his name on NZ country singer John Hore records as a kid...	kahawai chaser (3545)
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Gary Usher (Co-wrote 'In My Room" with The Beach Boy's Brian Wilson ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiUger3g5fYAhVC72MKHU4_AZwQtwIISjAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1z" target="_blank">www . google . com e5cj0eaXw&usg=AOvVaw3l0LhSNommw5_2nzPepr3j)) The Hondells (Studio band who performed/recorded "Little Honda" for themselves ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjLpt6thJfYAhVUHGMKHbX_Ck4QtwIILzAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIH" target="_blank">www . google . com mRxpumtB4&usg=AOvVaw36nviun15x7Wk0sJMrcemL)) Jan & Dean (Surf City ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi0grje_pbYAhUO9WMKHRLKAScQtwIIVTAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZQ" target="_blank">www . google . com 6HqScFjF0&usg=AOvVaw15YpbSbOIxmSkciDEGUaoR), Dead Man's Curve) ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjL75n6_pbYAhVY_WMKHeQhBAcQyCkILDAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DS1" target="_blank">www . google . com Cuekbklkg&usg=AOvVaw1i7J5oS0vwK84IpULmOspm) Jim Fuller (The Surfaris guitarist - "The Beatnik" ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=17&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjL4M7NhZfYAhUU7GMKHVrtA3UQtwIIoAEwEA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Daw" target="_blank">www . google . com zbdpF9mWE&usg=AOvVaw1KJve6Nl41g3IuabKwhjX-)) The Lively Ones (Surf Rider ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjYuY_ohpfYAhVK4WMKHb5iCxQQtwIIMDAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dso" target="_blank">www . google . com H7t6Mal3A&usg=AOvVaw12vsH8ici07mxl-JBrI9Mq)) The Marketts ("Outer Limits" sued by Rod Sterling to change name to "Out OF Limits" Same song though ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjW6cqxh5fYAhVOwmMKHdl_AfEQtwIIPzAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZX" target="_blank">www . google . com yeb8ND89M&usg=AOvVaw0bY_8RqfnYju5tYkNxl_cf)) The Pyramids (Penetration ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiZwqr_iJfYAhVBy1QKHUI7D_IQtwIILzAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUS" target="_blank">www . google . com fMeResE1c&usg=AOvVaw3r3SyEWuN2qFFeQS2gs3Mj)) Richie Allen (Surf Man ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiOgbiuiZfYAhVMyVQKHVLzD_IQtwIINTAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNL" target="_blank">www . google . com DyIhA-FpE&usg=AOvVaw2XvIholHvxdeKFMR-qDGPa)) The Rip-Chords (Hey Little Cobra ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjC6LWy_pbYAhVH6GMKHYGCAloQtwIIRjAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Doc" target="_blank">www . google . com 6FmZCT0Zc&usg=AOvVaw1xQuPF0Xsz15Jksfw93yS1)) The Rivieras (Not a California band, but very good! 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Maybe a little too far north though) The Sandals (The Theme From Endless Summer ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwji2ayllJfYAhVC1mMKHWzaA0wQtwIISTAF&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGH" target="_blank">www . google . com 1K23rAYOQ&usg=AOvVaw0XkfnGG4Xn48UfpZjN6ctA)) The Sentinals (Big Surf ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjW6q_vlJfYAhWJLmMKHaJpDycQtwIIVTAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZI" target="_blank">www . google . com 0JOxKSGLg&usg=AOvVaw2nGB4F1ezghhW_x-ePSb4Y)) The Shadows (Atlantis ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjyttexlZfYAhUD0GMKHa8mA1MQtwIINTAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVy" target="_blank">www . google . com cZVyApqew&usg=AOvVaw1_11IBIjJbWfNRfRzek8sq)) The Sunrays (Sun, Sun, Sun [I Live For The Sun] ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiIztvilZfYAhVU9GMKHekSBVwQtwIIKTAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYu" target="_blank">www . google . com s7IvioR_A&usg=AOvVaw2RdAXK8lQEgKHBR6_9HT9-))) The Surfaris (Wipe Out ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjXu9eBlpfYAhUGyWMKHcl6BXkQtwIIOzAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSU" target="_blank">www . google . com ghB-xmNlg&usg=AOvVaw2RiM_3pqVKZpLta26QiXvU)) The Tornadoes (California, USA, not The English Tornadoes! "Baja", "Telstar" and "Bustin' Surfboards ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiit-r4lpfYAhUIxWMKHWVzCykQtwIIVjAH&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHG" target="_blank">www . google . com BIirV_9MU&usg=AOvVaw1pywWR2jLDjUE5TAYhcRko)" was a big hit too . ) The Trashmen (Surfing Bird ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwivmqLCl5fYAhVQ02MKHZiDANsQyCkILDAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6G" target="_blank">www . google . com izTr6QLfc&usg=AOvVaw1X3Ig-6ZCeu-p7FotFU1c8)) The Ventures (Walk, Don't Run on the old Dick Clark Saturday Sho ( . google . com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjDpcztl5fYAhVO02MKHaqhA1EQtwIIRzAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww . youtube . com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dow" target="_blank">www . google . com q7hgzna3E&usg=AOvVaw24nZVzCxAqL0lgZK62pnqn)w) There are others, but I tried to only include Southern California surf groups here - although I took license a couple of times .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1443491	2017-12-19 23:11:00	I think most Kiwi's from the 60's only new The Beach Boys, if one can associate them with surfing. Also Jan and Dean maybe? I never heard of Bruce Brown. The actor Jim Brown - who became a bit popular here - with Fred Williamson, Richard Roundtree, and Jim Kelly in those "Blaxploitation" '70's movies come to mind. Some older folk here may have heard of Joe Brown (Enterprises). I recall seeing his name on NZ country singer John Hore records as a kid... Yeah - none of the Beach Boys actually surfed although they sang about it. Bruce Brown was a surfer, not a singer. He had fame of his own-self.	SurferJoe46 (51)
1443492	2017-12-20 06:18:00	Thanks for the above surf/instrumental band lists. Played them. Then it struct me. I heard many of them decades ago - from my parents albums - mainly The K-Tel Surfing Safari albums (goo.gl) (Google Images) playing on our PYE turntable/radio mono gram. No Duane Eddy? I had one of his compilations, years ago, and some of his sounds were similar...	kahawai chaser (3545)
1443493	2017-12-20 06:52:00	Thanks for the above surf/instrumental band lists. Played them. Then it struct me. I heard many of them decades ago - from my parents albums - mainly The K-Tel Surfing Safari albums (goo.gl) (Google Images) playing on our PYE turntable/radio mono gram. No Duane Eddy? I had one of his compilations, years ago, and some of his sounds were similar... That url-posting was a lot of work - but I'm retired and had nothing better to do for, oh approximately 3.214 hours or so anyway. Duane Eddy wasn't a Southern California type guy, although I also enjoyed his twangy guitar a lot. I tried to stick to SoCal bands - although I did wander a bit off the reservation.	SurferJoe46 (51)
1443494	2017-12-20 10:19:00	Played a few of those songs, thanks Joe. Lots of memories. I wonder if you have seen this guy play, he's an American based in Australia: OCEAN - John Butler - 2012 Studio Version www.youtube.com	zqwerty (97)
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