The Surfaris 1963 massive smash hit single “WIPEOUT” was a traditional 12-bar blues riff. The laughing in the beginning was the studio owner & band’s manager. It was written & recorded “on the spot” in the studio as b-side filler.

“At one point I saw Coltrane break out a bagpipe (another demon in the forest) and blow into it, but damned if I heard a note of what he played.” – A.B. Spellman, 1965 Downbeat Magazine review of a NYC Village Gate concert

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