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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 23. 23rd September 1973

Anthology Album:

Anthology Album:

Fabian is by now about the only fifties rock performer who hasn't somehow turned out to have been significant. At least not yet. Its Andy Warhol in reverse. He figured that at the current turnover rate in celebrities everyone soon would have a chance to be world famous — for fifteen minutes. Finding out that schmucks like Jan and Dean were really socially significant is kind of a similar experience.

Drawing an open-mouther woman

According to the liner notes, Jimi Hendrix needn't have been so snotty about surf music. It was all a put-on, an excuse to put rock and roll back on its feet after the deaths of Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. They say surf music and hot rod music cut to the heart of rock which afterwards got lost by all those "namby-pamby folksingers and their nasal whines about their incipient neuroses".

So Jan and Dean just maybe were the fathers of the Turtles and the Mothers of Invention, the first in that style of" sending themselves up as they put everyone else on.

Remember "Surf City"? Where there are "two girls for every boy"? Or what about the absolute cruncher "Dead Man's Curve" that was banned by the NZBC and is alone worth the price of this whole album; the ultimate challenge: I'll go ya one better if you got the nerve/ Let's race all the way to Dead Man's Curve. And we know what that sort of thing leads to: Well the last thing I remember Doc/ I started to swerve/And then I saw the Jag go into the curve. What a saga! What liner notes! Yeah, Jan and Dean were all right. And there are 32 tracks of them on this record. So hang tough, don't be no ho-dad.