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The Current Presents: The Trashmen

Posted at 2:52 PM on October 21, 2010 by Peter Valelly (1 Comments)
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This week on The Current Presents, host Marc Sanchez takes a look at the beginnings of the local rock music scene in Minnesota. We're lucky enough to have as our guides: The Trashmen.

Dal Winslow, Bob Andreason, and Bob Reed stopped by the Current studios a few weeks back to reminisce about the scene and walk through the history of their band. Most people know the Trashmen from their hit, "Surfin' Bird," with its driving rhythm and gurgly-voiced singing, "well everybody's heard about the bird... bird, bird, bird... bird is the word." Love it or hate it, the song is a definite earworm.

Tune in this Sunday at 9 to hear tales of "Surfin' Bird" and beyond with special guests: The Trashmen.

Check out these videos:

Surfin' Bird on American Bandstand, 1964

Surfin' Bird made it to #4 on the Billboard charts in December of 1963. The band was invited to play American Bandstand in January of 1964. The show was in the process of moving it's studios from Philadelphia to Los Angeles at the time, and they didn't have the budget to fly the whole band out. So here you get one of the strangest versions of Surfin' Bird. It's just drummer Steve Wahrer lip syncing and doing the bird dance.

Surfin' Bird on Family Guy

Surfin' Bird has been featured in movies and on TV, but this Family Guy episode took it to a whole new level. The entire episode revolves around the song.

Comments (1)

The REAL names of the guests are Dal Winslow, Bob Reed and Tony Andreason...

GEEEEEEEZZZZ

Posted by Dal Winslow | October 21, 2010 6:02 PM

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