Post #267387 by Wavy77 on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 1:31 PM

I just searched on Similau on the net, and then I came across this discussion. Its too cool, cause Ive gotten a little "Similau-fever" the last couple of days, and I even recorded my own rough demo version of it, by multi-tracking guitars and singing. I even tried to imitate some bird-whistling there for the good measure.

I`ll present it for my band when we rehearse on sunday, and I want to try to make some kind of ultimate version of with all the best from the different versions.

Were an instrumental surf-band, but a lot of the exotica/jazz-pop-versions out there have some elements of it that Id like to keep as well. I even think we should do it vocally, cause the melody is so extremely haunting. I just tried to sing on top of the Surfaris-version, and it made a great melodic up-tempo rocknroll song that would`ve cut it on the charts instantly...:wink:

Now the thing that I really like about the Surfaris-version is the chord changes in the "Spirit in the wood in he hallow cane. Echo in the afterglow"-part, because they keep it a little more simple, and it allows the hauntingness to grow a little more on you that way (They go straight F#m-E-F#m-Bm instead of putting some more chords in there that exists on most versions).

Ok, I`ll stop my rant right there. This is an old discussion anyway...:wink: