Volcanic Action!, by The Belairs

Volcanic Action!

by The Belairs

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1.	Ramrod 02:08	buy track
2.	Vampire 03:07	buy track
3.	Peter Pistol 03:29	buy track
4.	Let's Go Trippin' 02:21	buy track
5.	Wild One 02:44	buy track
6.	Panic Button 02:49	buy track
7.	Yep 02:25	buy track
8.	Bedlam 04:24	buy track
9.	Chiflado 02:55	buy track
10.	Bulldog 02:03	buy track
11.	Movin' & Groovin' 02:18	buy track
12.	Runaway (Alternate Take) 02:30	buy track
13.	Ventures Medley: Lullaby of the Leaves / Walk, Don't Run / Perfidia 03:09	buy track
14.	Reveille Rock 02:34	buy track
15.	Kamikazee 02:24	buy track
16.	Three Blind Christmas Mice 03:09	buy track
17.	Volcanic Action (Alternate Take) 02:33	buy track
18.	Rampage 02:25	buy track
19.	Squirt 02:18	buy track

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What did you do in high school? If you were one of the five members of The Belairs, you were busy helping to invent surf music. They laid the blueprint for countless aqua odes to follow. Featuring minor key guitar leads flowing to major and back to minor, a prominent sax and dogged drums, Volcanic Action! was a clarion call to thousands of like-minded California kids. Bands sprung up, dance halls overflowed and a steady stream of surf records began to hit the airwaves and the shop racks. California became the epicenter for a new music genre and its hub was South Bay, Los Angeles, home of The Belairs.

The Belairs' reign was brief, from 1961-1963. An argument between guitarists Eddie Bertrand and Paul Johnson over whether to incorporate the then-new Fender reverb unit into their sound (Eddie was for it, Paul against) escalated and resulted in the group's break-up. Their tiny discography of three singles belied their massive impact. Bertrand formed Eddie and The Showmen, drummer Richard Delvy founded The Challengers and original Bel-Airs drummer, former Mousketeer Dick Dodd, joined The Standells, all groups destined to make national noise and carry the California sound forward.

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released April 24, 2001

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The Belairs Los Angeles, California

Formed by guitarists Eddie Bertrand and Paul “P.J.” Johnson and future Challengers drummer Richard Delvy, LA’s Belairs were contemporaries of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones and helped to build the gymnasium-rattling ground swell that became surf music.

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