A true Australian classic which will never die. Also which defines the Australian spirit and culture I vote this song to be the next Australian anthem. Long live the Atlantics
This remains as one of Australia's best ever instrumentals. A remarkable effort after 45 years. Jim (Skiathitis) on lead still has it along with Peter Hood on drums, Martin Cilia, guitar and Michael Smith, bass. The Strat still sounds great and has clearly done some travelling in its' time. Thank you mandyp for posting.
Recording this version of Bombora hadn’t actually officially been on the brief as I had understood it when, just a week before, I’d been invited to join The Atlantics, replacing original bass player Bosco Bosanac, who was going off to play the part of The Man In Black, Johnny Cash, in a duo with his wife. Saturday 13 May 2006, I’d fronted up to drummer Peter Hood’s home, which also houses the original band’s rehearsal/recording studio in the Sydney suburb of Earlwood, fingers raw from learning the five new tracks we were to contribute to Delightful Rain: A Celebration of Australian Surf Music, conceived by the always enthusiastic David Minear of the Adelaide-based independent record label Bombora Creative, with producer Kerryn Tolhurst (The Dingoes) and recording engineer Mick Wordley. Bumping into Freshwater Surf Club on Sydney’s North Beaches Sunday 14 for a further day of rehearsal, arranging (we had a bit of bother with the bridge in Riff A Go Go that I eventually helped solve a little) and soundchecking (Wordley was still setting up the recording equipment), our contributions to the CD that would ultimately include new recordings by Australian acts from across 40 years of surf music, from Les Green of The Denvermen, through Tamam Shud, Richard Clapton, The Celibate Rifles and more to the new young gun, Beau Young, were recorded the next day. At the end of that day, David suggested we have a look at perhaps giving the Midnight Oil instrumental, Wedding Cake Island, the Atlantics treatment, and so that evening after dinner back at the hotel, we worked a version up and recorded it Tuesday 15, which is when David wondered if we might do him a version of Bombora too. After all, it was the track, a #1 hit back in 1963, which had inspired him enough to name his company in its honour. So, pretty exhausted after nearly four days of intensive rehearsing and recording, we ran through it a couple of times, and that’s what you have here. Only two of the five new tunes we rehearsed ended up on the CD, alongside Wedding Cake Island and Bombora, but you can see/hear them on the DVD David released a year or so later, Live At Freshwater. It’s wonderful that so many of you have checked out the clip on RUclips. It would have been even more wonderful if even half as many of you had checked into the Bombora Creative website and ordered a copy of what is a truly unique slice of Australian music history. That might have allowed David and the Bombora Creative team to do another album like it, ten years on, celebrating 50 years of Australian surf guitar music. You still can of course. You might be getting this wonderful music free right here on RUclips, but it costs a whole lot of money to write, arrange, rehearse, record, mix, master and manufacture it. Anyway, sit back and enjoy a truly magical time in my life, when, just for a moment, I was an Atlantic.
WOW! Such an awesome story behind the recording! The minute I got the CD, just after release, it was on repeat for months! The revelation for me was Taman Shud and the story behind the name of the band. I was also impressed with The Rifles. Being a fan of theirs for years, was great to hear their contribution I have watched the DVD many times and love it. The back stories and bits of conversation are great! Thanks to you Michael for sharing and for playing on what is one of my all time records!
It'll be on the charts when Tarrentino discovers it and puts it in a movie. I just got a copy of The Atlantic complete CBS recordings, Vol. one. Great music!
These guys are right up there with The Ventures, Surfaris, The Shadows, The Spotniks, and dare I say The Aqua Velvets! These guys bring a whole new groove to GROOVY!!!!
Great to see these guys still playing strong with still such enthusiasm...The Atlantics are legends and may they live on for ever and a day...thanks guys for making our lives fun back then and now today....Barry Ribbons Sydney
why has no one made a surfing video to this fantastic sound?????? Every time I heard it on the radio, I just saw the wild sea and surfers. Brings back such memories of such a long time ago. Still gives me shivers and it's not cos I'm old now.
There was an American surf rock song also called Bombora by a band who called themselves the Surfaris, though they were not the same Surfaris that did "Wipe Out." I've never heard The Atlantics version unitl now. Very cool. Sounds a lot like The Shadows.
Do you remember hearing that sound coming from the "beach huts" dance and drink gigs above some shops near the Beaches of Sydney and the Gold Coast. Smell the peroxide and coconut oil and the sand covered floors. Take me back there now.......in a xm Falcon 3 speed 170 pursuit ahhhhh.......or hear it on a am radio.....
Well,these are the blokes who wrote,first performed, and recorded "Bombora" way way back. In July 1963, "Bombora" reached No.5 nationally. Follow up was "The Crusher" Nov. 1963, Top 20.
A reverberation, or reverb, is created when a sound is produced in an enclosed space causing a large number of echoes to build up and then slowly decay as the sound diminishes. Guitar effect reverb is an electronic recreation of the enclosed space. I'd say we are even..cheers
@appkw The VENTURES still make big money in Japan every year but the ATLANTICS must not need money no many people now this excellent Group they need a good manager.
To paraphrase Superman's arch-enemy Lex Luthor: "I have a penchant for beachfront property. I want AUSTRALIA!!!!" He can have Australia, I'll S U R F with The Atlantics!!!!
a message to the atlantics.you need to play ireland fast.we're only getting you on utube,and for too long.what a track-better than the ventures or jan and dean.
I've often wondered whether this Ozzie surf classic may be subtely influenced by a Greek bazuki playing tradition that might have inflenced the lead guitar riffs? Anyone else think they can hear Jim's 'Greekness' coming out in this ?
A true Australian classic which will never die. Also which defines the Australian spirit and culture
I vote this song to be the next Australian anthem.
Long live the Atlantics
This remains as one of Australia's best ever instrumentals.
A remarkable effort after 45 years.
Jim (Skiathitis) on lead still has it along with Peter Hood on drums, Martin Cilia, guitar and Michael Smith, bass.
The Strat still sounds great and has clearly done some travelling in its' time.
Thank you mandyp for posting.
Recording
this version of Bombora hadn’t
actually officially been on the brief as I had understood it when, just a week
before, I’d been invited to join The Atlantics, replacing original bass player
Bosco Bosanac, who was going off to play the part of The Man In Black, Johnny
Cash, in a duo with his wife. Saturday 13 May 2006, I’d fronted up to drummer
Peter Hood’s home, which also houses the original band’s rehearsal/recording
studio in the Sydney suburb of Earlwood, fingers raw from learning the five new
tracks we were to contribute to Delightful
Rain: A Celebration of Australian Surf Music, conceived by the always
enthusiastic David Minear of the Adelaide-based independent record label
Bombora Creative, with producer Kerryn Tolhurst (The Dingoes) and recording
engineer Mick Wordley. Bumping into Freshwater Surf Club on Sydney’s North
Beaches Sunday 14 for a further day of rehearsal, arranging (we had a bit of
bother with the bridge in Riff A Go Go
that I eventually helped solve a little) and soundchecking (Wordley was still
setting up the recording equipment), our contributions to the CD that would
ultimately include new recordings by Australian acts from across 40 years of
surf music, from Les Green of The Denvermen, through Tamam Shud, Richard
Clapton, The Celibate Rifles and more to the new young gun, Beau Young, were
recorded the next day. At the end of that day, David suggested we have a look
at perhaps giving the Midnight Oil instrumental, Wedding Cake Island, the Atlantics treatment, and so that evening
after dinner back at the hotel, we worked a version up and recorded it Tuesday
15, which is when David wondered if we might do him a version of Bombora too. After all, it was the
track, a #1 hit back in 1963, which had inspired him enough to name his company
in its honour. So, pretty exhausted after nearly four days of intensive
rehearsing and recording, we ran through it a couple of times, and that’s what
you have here. Only two of the five new tunes we rehearsed ended up on the CD,
alongside Wedding Cake Island and Bombora, but you can see/hear them on
the DVD David released a year or so later, Live
At Freshwater. It’s wonderful that so
many of you have checked out the clip on RUclips. It would have been even more
wonderful if even half as many of you had checked into the Bombora Creative
website and ordered a copy of what is a truly unique slice of Australian music
history. That might have allowed David and the Bombora Creative team to do
another album like it, ten years on, celebrating 50 years of Australian surf
guitar music. You still can of course. You might be getting this wonderful
music free right here on RUclips, but it costs a whole lot of money to write,
arrange, rehearse, record, mix, master and manufacture it. Anyway, sit back and
enjoy a truly magical time in my life, when, just for a moment, I was an
Atlantic.
WOW! Such an awesome story behind the recording!
The minute I got the CD, just after release, it was on repeat for months! The revelation for me was Taman Shud and the story behind the name of the band. I was also impressed with The Rifles. Being a fan of theirs for years, was great to hear their contribution
I have watched the DVD many times and love it. The back stories and bits of conversation are great!
Thanks to you Michael for sharing and for playing on what is one of my all time records!
Your bass sounds awesome and is up in the mix where it should be.
It'll be on the charts when Tarrentino discovers it and puts it in a movie. I just got a copy of The Atlantic complete CBS recordings, Vol. one. Great music!
These guys are right up there with The Ventures, Surfaris, The Shadows, The Spotniks, and dare I say The Aqua Velvets! These guys bring a whole new groove to GROOVY!!!!
burkeshaw and ZZ & De Maskers. (ZZ & The Masks) from Holland. Search for La Comparsa, Till, Spanish Tears and so on on RUclips.
Great to see these guys still playing strong with still such enthusiasm...The Atlantics are legends and may they live on for ever and a day...thanks guys for making our lives fun back then and now today....Barry Ribbons Sydney
Brilliant! It still stacks up today after all those years. These guys were at least as good as The Shadows and arguably better.
why has no one made a surfing video to this fantastic sound?????? Every time I heard it on the radio, I just saw the wild sea and surfers. Brings back such memories of such a long time ago. Still gives me shivers and it's not cos I'm old now.
Better than ever - should tour regularly for the oldies!
Awsome!!!!! This will be back in the charts some day in the future....just watch.
Never get tired of this. The first 45 I bought!
they still have that classic sound
love it
Best Aussie surfin' band ever two Greeks one Polack one Yugo all Aussie's
And lived in Villawood which is not near the beach lol
Aussie's what?
Feels so nice to hear this once again...I've been searching for this for years.. Thanks mandyp27 for posting.
Solid surf instrumental. Very well played and great sound. Really enjoyed this.
Awesome sound and great memories guys!! TYTYThankYou!!
just the best in the world for the last 60years+
so good, thanks guys its brilliant ... this music never dies; esta musica es eterna :-)
Good Ozzie Music,. nice to find and nice to listen to again and again..
Great surf tune. Excellent sound.
Aside from the bass player bearing a more than passing resemblance to Ron Jeremy, this is great stuff!
Neil
YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YOU :)
Bravoo Atlantics..We love you...Cem-TURKEY
super! presque 50 ans après l'original!!
this is great!
One of the best they did a lot of shows around Hurstville and we seen them all do not have bands like them now days sorry to say.
Note the Honour Rolls on the wall. Australia - love it.
Good to see and hear!!! Great link back to being at MBHS together. Jo (Was Joe Mul)
Long live the Atlantics!
masterpiece sound
awesome sounds and still relevent today
Marvelous song that
OOHH SH....oooot...Thats soooo Magic.Love it!!!!
Brilliant Stuff!
AWESOME!!!!
Very cool!
thanks to bigeeezy for the share!
love it:)
Love It Love It Love It
There was an American surf rock song also called Bombora by a band who called themselves the Surfaris, though they were not the same Surfaris that did "Wipe Out." I've never heard The Atlantics version unitl now. Very cool. Sounds a lot like The Shadows.
This is the original version.
that MARTIN CILLA is some player . HUGE HANK MARVIN influence in there .
The best !
Fantastic.
5/5*****
Peace~~~Rod
Do you remember hearing that sound coming from the "beach huts" dance and drink gigs above some shops near the Beaches of Sydney and the Gold Coast. Smell the peroxide and coconut oil and the sand covered floors. Take me back there now.......in a xm Falcon 3 speed 170 pursuit ahhhhh.......or hear it on a am radio.....
old men playing good music what more do we want .
Well,these are the blokes who wrote,first performed, and recorded "Bombora" way way back. In July 1963, "Bombora" reached No.5 nationally.
Follow up was "The Crusher" Nov. 1963, Top 20.
Let's surf again.
i agree with you gungahlin
@cosmicnomadsband Jim Skiathitis Lead, Peter Hood Drums, Martin Cilia Rhythm, Michael Smith Bass.
Surf music rules!!!
A reverberation, or reverb, is created when a sound is produced in an enclosed space causing a large number of echoes to build up and then slowly decay as the sound diminishes. Guitar effect reverb is an electronic recreation of the enclosed space. I'd say we are even..cheers
Жива ли сёрф музыка такого класса сейчас, сочиняются ли новые произведения искусства в этом жанре в наши дни ? Подскажите !
FANTASIC SUPER KIND REGARDS JAN
@Jdizz99 I was talking about doing the club scene my spelling is a little of but i would love to see them play a good 60,s band Greg.
@appkw The VENTURES still make big money in Japan every year but the
ATLANTICS must not need money no many people now this excellent Group
they need a good manager.
Aussie surf is really up!!!*****
Yep.
good good cem-Turkey
Is this all the original members? great stuff whatever the situation!
To paraphrase Superman's arch-enemy Lex Luthor: "I have a penchant for beachfront property. I want AUSTRALIA!!!!" He can have Australia, I'll S U R F with The Atlantics!!!!
Fantastico I LIKE Wonderbart KEEP ON BOYS
a message to the atlantics.you need to play ireland fast.we're only getting you on utube,and for too long.what a track-better than the ventures or jan and dean.
tight
@Jdizz99 Hi sorry i can no think of what i put on youtube about the Atlantics Greg.
Has anyone got tabs for the bass part?? if so please link me.
The original record went for 2 min..55sec…a lot faster than here..3min 46 sec.😳
hahaha neilcam ;)
fantastic clip
Freshwater Beach/Harbord Surf Club.
THIS,....is surf
I've often wondered whether this Ozzie surf classic may be subtely influenced by a Greek bazuki playing tradition that might have inflenced the lead guitar riffs? Anyone else think they can hear Jim's 'Greekness' coming out in this ?
Jim Skiathitis was doing the "machine guns" on guitar before Jimi Hendrix. I saw them at a carpark gig in 1963.
A lot slower than the original 1963 recording..
does anyone no how the guitarist makes that cool scratching sound in the into?
CRABS !!
Would have changed the the UK hit parade in the sixties on.
Let's go CHoWers!
can some one tell me why this good old Australian band don't do the club sean
Where's Johnny Rebb?
That is echo rather than reverb isn't it?
Probably has a mess of effect pedals out of frame.
Сочетание медленного соло с относительно быстрым сопровождением немного удивляет.
The only effect I can hear is bulk reverb like most Surf Instrumentals.
*intro
It's RaD 8)
the early 60's look was way better. The beach boys, The Atlantics, they all went to trash in the looks during the late 60's to the present.