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- ↑ Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk - edited by Roger Sabin - Page 162 Bibliography
- ↑ Los Angeles Times , May 04, 1989 - Surf Rock's History Wrapped Up by a Longtime Devotee - Mike Boehm
- ↑ Billboard , April 23, 1994 - Page 87 Surf's up as instrumental bands worldwide catch the wave
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, May 04, 1989 - Surf Rock's History Wrapped Up by a Longtime Devotee - Mike Boehm
- ↑ The Orange County Register , March 12, 2007 (Updated |Updated Aug. 21, 2013) - Play a high L, please By TERI SFORZA
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1993 - Cresting a New Wave : Dick Dale, Family Man and Surf Guitar King, Is Ready to Ride (Page 3 of 5) - Mike Boehm
- ↑ Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys' Founding Genius, By Philip Lambert - Page 51 First Album
- ↑ Mixed Up, By Simon Casas - Page 3
- ↑ Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions, By Michael Hicks - Page 139 Notes To Pages 64-67
- ↑ Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions, By Michael Hicks - Page 139 Notes To Pages 64-67
- ↑ WorldCat - Surfin' guitars : instrumental surf bands of the sixties
- ↑ Surfin' Guitars: Instrumental Surf Bands of the Sixties, Robert Dalley - Bibliographic information