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Category Archive: BS Daily Tune Up

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Wheel Man – The Super Stocks (1963)

It has been intermittent these days on the BangShift Daily Tune-Up front, let’s fix that. I’m commandeering the musical end of the ship today and we’re going right back to my...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Stick Shift – The Duals (1961)

The instrumental is a pretty foreign thing to radio waves these days. Back in the late 1950s and into the 1960s there were plenty of surf and hot rod themed instrumentals coming over the airwaves....

BangShift Daily Tune Up: 426 Super Stock – The Super Stocks (1963)

Like several bands we have featured in the past, The Super Stocks were a “band” assembled by a record company to crank out surf and car tunes in the 1960s because that’s what the...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: 40 Miles Of Bad Road – Duane Eddy (1959)

I am not a guitar player but I know what guitar players I like to listen to and Duane Eddy is right up there close to the top of my list. His distinctive twangy sound defined his career and led to...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Expressway To Your Heart – The Soul Survivors (1967)

It’s been a while since I posted a BangShift Daily Tune Up but this song is too good not to share. This is one of the songs I can clearly remember jamming to in the back of my dad’s 1964...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Mr. Eliminator – Dick Dale And His Del-tones (1964)

When it comes to the surf guitar, Dick Dale’s name is either at the top of damned close to it. The guy practically invented the genre and through the 1960s he cranked out many successful albums...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys (1966)

Today’s BS Daily Tune up isn’t a car song. I’m highlighting Good Vibrations one of the most influential and awesomely constructed rock and roll songs of all time because it’s...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: The Demonics – Formaldehyde Injection

If there’s something wrong with retro-surf punk hot rod music than I never want to be right. This album was sent in by Harry and he said we should give it a listen. Well, it’s awesome and...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” by Meat Loaf (1977)

One of Michael Aday’s most notable traits was not his singing range, nor his acting range. No, it would be his social anxiety. He had no idea what to do with himself in a social setting, felt...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Thou Shalt Drag – The Surfites (2007)

Here’s a note to recording artists everywhere. If you want your work to be showcased to the worldwide readership of el BangShift-arino, all you need to do is to created a bitchin’ surf...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Are You Dead Yet?” by Children of Bodom (Live in 2006)

When you were a child, did you ever guess when your date with destiny would finally arrive? Did you expect to have a nice, long life or did you expect to burn like a road flare, full-fire until there...

Morning Symphony: The Camshaft Song, Starring This Chevrolet Opala!

The opening to the Van Halen song “Hot For Teacher” is a solid testament to Alex Van Halen’s ability to rig a drum kit to do things far beyond the basics. He effectively connected...

BangShift Tune-Up: “The Zephyr Song” by Red Hot Chili Peppers (2002)

In a change versus the majority of the last ten years for me, I’ve spent the last couple months waking up just before the sun driving just as the first few beams of light go bright. When the...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Animals” by Architechts (2020)

With most of the events of the year retreating with the summer sun and the flowers in a year that has been maddening, frustrating, and fueled by an unrest that hasn’t been easily settled by...