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Picked up a great 5′ 10″ thruster for Charlie today and tried it out this afternoon in 2 foot shories at Harbord.
We all reckoned this mint condition ‘surfo’ stole the show at the inaugural Deus Surfboard Swap Meet, along with several Gordon Woods boards (couple of transitional era trackers and a fantastic ’64 triple stringer Island Design malibu), a few Keyo plastic machines and vee bottom brethren, a pair of Hot Buttered speed boards and a beautifully sprayed Sea ‘biscuit’.
Lucky enough to catch Australian prog rockers Taman Shud at the recent Manly Surf Festival, in the soiled nether regions of the Old Manly Boat Shed.
Heard stuff straight out of early 70s Sunbury…in equal parts fresh and primordial that totally blew a drunk and largely unsuspecting audience away. Even got a glimpse of their earlier stuff, back when they called themselves the ‘Sunsets’ and sonically energised Paul Witzig’s explosive ’67 surf movie The Hot Generation.
Knocked out by tunes from the spacey rock soundtrack of Evolution, Witzig’s follow up surf movie in ’69 and the Shud’s first commercial recording.
Met Dave Milnes on the weekend.
(poorly) cropped from photo by Dave Milnes
He’s been photographing surfers, mostly on the NSW south coast since the early 60s and caught this fantastic shot of Midget Farrelly trimming at the watershed Manly world titles in ’64, with a boatload of clubbies looking typically churlish in the background.