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STRICTLY  INSTRUMENTAL

ARTISTS/GROUPS

Davie Allan & The Arrows US site of the King of the fuzz guitar
Alquimistas  Instrumental surf rock group from Brasil
The Apemen  The Apemen Adoration site.
The Aquavelvets  A blend of Spaghetti Western, Psychedelia, Surf, Latin - with a tongue in cheek dash of Lounge.
The Arousers UK Surf Rock'n'Roll band
The Astroglides - Israel's only surfcore band
Chet Atkins  Nashville's finest has his own site. 
The Atlantics Australia's No.1 60's surf instro group
The Balboas  Lots of pictures from last years tour, and some MP3s and real audio of the tracks from the new album, and some old tracks from heavy surf advisory
The Bambi Molesters Surf from Croatian band
Beatmakers Surf from Finland with 
Pekka Tiilikainen & Beatmakers
Warren Bennett Warren's Waffles Music site with
RA downloads.
The Bitch Boys
Black Labels Surf instrumental/rockabilly combo from
Duluth, MN USA.
Booker T & The M.G.'S
The Bradipos IV Instrumental/surf band from Italy
The Brainwashers The band has a site at  Rainforest Records
The Charades  Finnish Instro group - site has mp3 music files
Steve Cropper
Dalek Beach Party Audio downloads available here.
Danny Davis & The Boys  Belgium Cliff & Shads cover group
Dead Man's Curve Site of the band considered best young instrumental group in UK.
Duane Eddy  The Duane Eddy Circle site
Duane Eddy  Jim Grant's site for more Duane info and also news about New Kommotion
Duane Eddy Tony Borgosano's excellent site for Duane.
Duane Eddy
Hall of Fame site
Duane Eddy Australian site
The Falcons - top Canadian Instro band.
The Fathoms U.S. Surf Band who record for MuSick label.
The Fireballs Official site
Hank Garland 
Danny Gatton King of the Telecaster
Jet Harris Dave Dixon's Jet Harris pages
Jet Harris
Huntington Bitches - Surf band from Brazil
Husky and The Sandmen A site for Finnish band who appeared at PIPELINE 1999
Merrell Fankhauser  Merrell Fankhauser's Official Website
Hurmio From Finland
Johnny & The Hurricanes   John Panteny has put a discography for the group on this site.
HypnoticIV  Instro surf combo out of Sacramento, California
Los Jets - top Spanish instro group
Nick Kellie - formerly of Zenith and veteran of Shadowmania now forming his own group
KELP  Santa Barbara Surf Music
Ricky King - German site - they are working on English version too 
Os Argonautus  Instrumental surf music band from Brasil
The Light Valley Shadows  Excellent site for this group plus lots of other info and links.
Willie Logan Willie has some great albums out and budget price too!
Los Straitjackets While at their site check out their links page.
Lumottu Maa Wonderful Land in Finnish is the name for this band with a style like Hurmio
The Lunatics  Pages in Finnish and English!
Matilda - Excellent young French guitarist - check out her Magic Records
The Mannatees  Seattle based mostly original surf, rock, salsa band
The Mariners May The Surf Be With You
Zoe McCullouch - talented girl with guitar
The Mustangs   The Finnish instrumental band web site
The Nebulas
The Neptunes  West coast based surf band
The Pat S Syndicate - Austrian Surf Band
The Raiders  Leeds / Yorkshire instro. band in the early / mid '60s.Currently have a couple of vintage tracks out on
peoplesound.com
The Rapiers   A US based site for everyone's favourite band
since the 60's.
The Reflections  Norwegian Shadows type band and regular visitors to UK.
Los Relampagos
Shadows-influenced instro band from the '60's  additional influences: Johnny & the Hurricanes, Duane Eddy, and other instro bands of the early '60's - infused with Spanish melodic themes
Republic of Eleki  - Japanese site

The Reventlos
Royal Pendeltons New Orleans based band - they do vocals too.

The Ryders  From Sweden
Ian Samwell   Writer of 'Move It'
Santo and Johnny Check out those "Sleepwalk" guys
Santo and Johnny

Santo and Johnny
The Scorpions   Ted Barber's been hard at work on this site - well worth a visit.
The Shadows   Great site by John (New Zealand)
The Shadows Dave Dixon's site
The Shadows  East Yorkshire Shadows Guitar Club
The Shadows - Shaddicts NW Shads Music club
The Shadows   John Dyhouse's Shadows as songwriters pages
The Shadows  Jan Flatby's Norwegian site
The Shadows  John Panteny's site is a great place for collectors to trade or swop
The Shadows Club French site
The Shadows Tabulature   Keeping 'tabs' on the Shads
The Shadows - Thaitwang   Site about fans of The Shadows in Thailand, and local band
The Silhouettes - The Silhouettes - Finnish instro band - site has mp3 files
Slacktone  Surf Instro - Reverb Instrumentals not for the faint of heart!?
The Space Babes - Chestnut Bank Productions - recreating the instrumental style of Joe Meek
The Space Cossacks Surf and Space
The Special Agents - Her Majesty's Secret Surfers
The Spotnicks
  The official Swedish site
Craig Sterling  The Hank Marvin Tribute artist
Big Jim Sullivan  One of the greats of British rock'n'roll
Surfpatrouille Instro surf band from Germany
The Tornados Tom Hammond's Clem Cattini site
The Tornados Tom Hammond's site
The Torpedoes  Plenty of info. on the band plus great surf music links
The Tube Sharks   The Tube Sharks play intense Instrumental Surf and Rockabilly in the San Francisco Bay Area
Urban Surf Kings  Instro trio from the Atlantic Coast of Canada
(Halifax, Nova Scotia).
The Ventures  The Official site - if it's anything to do with The Ventures it's here!

The Ventures
(Sandcastle site)
Voodoo Court   High energy original surf band for the nineties with an essence of the old surf sound
Bert Weedon  His Play In A Day book taught many British guitarists
Wipeout  "THE" band for rock & Pop in Cumbria & the Borders
Link Wray  That Rumble man - Tony Borgosano's site

GENERAL INSTRO SITES

Live Concerts Online   Duane Eddy and lots more here.......
Canadian Instrumental Bands
Cowabunga!
Dutch Instro Homepage Complete history from 60's onward.
Now extended  enormously with lots on Dutch 60's and Revival RI groups
Green Cookie Records Greek based record label
The Story of Indorock Music
www.instromania.net The best European surf and instro pages plus bands directory
Instrumental Newsletter Main focus is the story, discography, CD reviews of the Brazilian and Latin American instrumental
bands from 1960's and 1990's. Also features International groups like Ventures & Shadows.
Instrumental Rock'n'Roll  Kirk's (Ventures Webmaster)
tribute page to the greats
www.omomworld.com Surf, Sounds and much more
Reverb Central
Sleepwalk  A whole site devoted to this one Instrumental number.
Surfbands
Surf Music Hall of Love

Tsunami Soul Surf
Twangsville Finnish label

BOOKS/MAGS/'ZINES

Guitars & Drums - French Instro 'zine
New Gandy Dancer

Davy Peckett's long running instro mag
Pearman Books
  Lots of instro books available on-line
Pipeline The Rock Instrumental Magazine
Shadsfax For Shadows fans
Thunderbolt  - The Joe Meek Appreciation Society
Twangzine
On-Line 'Zine
Ventures Resurgence UK based Ventures fans

EMAIL GROUPS

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