John Blair: Sound of the Surf Documentary, Music History

Surf historian and musician John Blair joins Staci Layne Wilson on this week’s Rock & Roll Nightmares podcast to talk about his new documentary, The Sound of the Surf, which features the late Dick Dale, as well as the Bel Airs, the Chantays, and Kathy Marshall. John’s own band, Jon and the Nightriders, was at the crest of the second wave of surf music in southern California, and he talks about that, as well as helping to get The Ventures back to the U.S. stage in the early 1980s. Also, Staci reads an excerpt from her #1 bestselling true crime book, Rock & Roll Nightmares: True Stories, Vol 2—the murder of Rainbow drummer Gary Driscoll is  ...