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Apr 16, 2014 · There's Eddie Katcher's Astronauts tribute band that played a couple times in 2013, and some Colorado surf musicians were working on a project to rerecord some of the material in something like the original spirit about a year ago, but for various reasons the project is moribund at present.
Even though they had never played surf music (or even surfed, for that matter), the landlocked Astronauts wound up with a long-term recording contract. Amazingly enough, the ruse actually worked for a while.
May 11, 2020 · When the group went into the recording studio to record their first album in 1963, they’d never heard of or played surf music before. Their first single was “Baja” which was written by none other than Lee Hazelwood (who was famous for his production work with Duane Eddy and Nancy Sinatra).
Regarding the band's performance in 1964's Surf Party, the book Pop Surf Culture states “The Astronauts bang out a thick, reverb-laden instrumental called ‘Firewater,’ and their theme song ‘Surf Party’ happens to be one of the best surf instrumentals ever recorded.”
The Astronauts from Colorado and The Trashmen (pictured) from Minneapolis were the most successful of the not inconsiderable number of landlocked bands who played surf music, or at least made a few stabs at it.
So even though the landlocked group had never played surf music (or even surfed, for that matter), the classic Astronauts lineup—Rich Fifield, Dennis Lindsey and Bob Demmon on guitars, Jon Storm Patterson on bass and drummer Jim Gallagher—ended up with a long-term recording contract.
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Astronauts have used music from 2001: A Space Odyssey to accompany tricky space manoeuvres in real life. On his first ever space flight in 1995, Hadfield played Johann Strass II’s Blue Danube ...
