601 The Tornadoes “Bustin’ Surfboards” 1962

“Though the named popular genre Surf Music is not the first, most important, or necessarily best music associated with surfing, it did mark a key moment in the history of surfing as a global cultural practice: the shift of the cultural center of surfing from Hawai’i to California. Thus Surf Music stands as an icon of a watershed moment in the reinvention of surfing…For some surfers the music became and remained an anthem of their youth, but for others then and since it created a problematic popular image of surfing frozen in time while their surfing community moved on and changed” (Timothy Cooley, Surfing About Music, 2014).

The Tornadoes “Bustin’ Surfboards”