Davie Allan & The Arrows Blues Theme

Why this man is not mentioned in the same breath as Dick Dale or The Ventures is beyond me. One of the great surf guitarist of the 60's and still going. Amazing. This is his signature tune and also includes "Chopper!" Oct 9, 2005

[@bradbaylis7355]

One of the forgotten great instrumentals of the 60's (I was 14 when it hit),played by one of the unsung guitar greats.Just hearing it makes you want to buy a bike. I'll bet I was the only black kid in my school who loved "Blue's Theme,"but 50 years later,it still packs a punch,not to mention horsepower!!!!!!(Best of all,I HEAR Davie's STILL GOING STRONG in his 70's!!!!!)

[@stonecoldfan3167]

Brad Baylis brother black white yellow green if you ride we're all brothers and tighter than any stinking backstabbing self-righteous church we actually have each other's backs if your on the side of the road bet your ass I'll help you get back on the highway!

[@diuga1]

"Why this man is not mentioned in the same breath as Dick Dale or The Ventures is beyond me." -I second that...

[@revwahfair]

Because the hits quit coming. Sad to say, cuz he's good, he's got some good kids playing with him.

[@larrycarrillo8088]

Davie Allen did the soundtrack to the greatest biker movie of the 60's, "Devil's Angels" with John Cassavetes. I was 9 or 10 years old and I knew I wanted to be a Biker with a hot "Mama" wrapped around me with Blues Theme playing in the background. Awww Good times!

[@crownprussian]

We thought We were the only one who loved, or even REMEMBERED, this song! Thank you!

[@sonnywhitehead2851]

LOL!! Wow! Takes a trip back to being 14 years old, at the drive in with my buddies, lol! One could drive. Awesome, loved seeing this live. Thanks for the ride back!!

[@Galaxy2blue]

YEAH!!!!...takes me back to "THE WILD ANGELS"...thanks for sharing...

[@lloydhyde2376]

That movie had great impact on me, (wild angels), as did this music. I joined a club called the “Lost Angels”..

[@robin2012ism]

dayam. Still so good after all these years.

[@GregLynn]

Killer song, so simple and brilliant. If this song doesn't make people want to play guitar for the pure fun of it, I say never buy a guitar then. I've been playing 17 years now and last night played along with Blues Theme at least 4 times. I can play WAY more technical but there is beauty in the simplicity. It gets the job done. Hypnotic, driving, catchy...and fuzzy :)

[@johnrjohn25]

Wow does that ever take me back. It was tne perfect Theme for Wild Angels. Raw, sexy, and perfect for tne times. Thanks for tne memories Davie.

[@johnrunion]

fuzz master general! a living legend!

[@cooleyreece]

WOW! What a pleasure it is too see him doing this live.

[@markclements551]

Texted Shotgun Kelly on SiriusXM '60's. Asked him to play one of my favorite songs from the '60's. I was 16 at the time. Great wild song.

[@katesaferian1959]

My favorite song of all time. Need to get a new record. Mine is all potato-chippy.

[@TheGuitologist]

Killer! Love everything about it - the tone, the 'tude, that custom Jag...

[@999manman]

Couldn't have phrased it better myself. This just shows you don't need a million sweep-picked notes to get the message across!

[@code2high]

Davie Allen was KING of the 60's FUZZ GUITAR !!!

[@InRezidence]

Great music period !!! I grew up listening to this.

[@bmfilmnut]

Reply to hitwitstuff's comment: You make a good point. In fact, back in the day, Allan played a Mosrite Mark 1 Ventures model guitar just like the ventures. I owned one too, It was even featured on his album that includes Blues Theme. However, I'm not sure he would be considered a surf guitarist. His big thing was biker music. Also, I don't think he was as fast as Dick Dale or as good a guitarist as the Ventures lead players including Nokie Edwards, etc. The Ventures were my first "favorite" band. When Walk Don't Run came out in 1960 when I was 11, I bought the 45 version of it (my first record purchase.) From then until I was in my mid to late teens, The Ventures were my favorite band. I think I stopped buying their albums at about their 35th album release. I still love their music.

[@Curly34584]

GREAT SONG!!

[@sparkstron73]

Still kicking ass, nice.

[@jeffcharlie838]

WOW rock On davie Allen & the Arrows

[@mikefournier2601]

Love it an also the wild angels there so meine

[@grimlyfiendish5579]

Wow that's a shredding version! i dig it

[@packingten]

My Friend and I learned this Song around 1969, We had an Old Supro Amp and He had JUST bought a Guild Foxy Lady Fuzz Tone We had it down pretty good,The first Effect on any Recording was Marty Robbins ,'Don't Worry but Me", Something went wrong with the Amp or Speaker,there are NUMEROUS Stories!!, One says Speaker another said Amp blew, in any event the Engineer like it and kept it, so There another Rock and Roll Moment in history.....:)

[@martysquire1054]

It was the mic preamp on the console that was distorting in the Marty Robbins case,so doesn't count. Johnny Burnette and the R'n'r Trio are in even with Link Wray for drifty values of badly treated amps components causing the guitar signal to Fuzz. But all that is moot because the DeArmond 601b 1949 made mechanical trem was the first portable effect to be used as what we now know as an effect that plugs between pick up and amplifier. the end

[@vinmanr2d2]

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!

[@featherriverfury6496]

This is a mash up of 2 songs, blues theme and skaterdater rock, legendary fuzz guitar riffs from the king of the fuzz guitar!

[@hergestridge2roubaix]

KICK ASS! NOBODY can do fuzz like Davie Allan! The other two cats are kickin' ass as well. Fantastic. Thanks for posting...

[@mjhida]

It is a Jazzmaster. For he is on myspace and I asked him that question and that is what he told me!.

[@fredxmertz]

This was used as the theme to Rodney on the ROQ (KROQ 106.7 FM Pasadena, CA) when I was a lad. I would stay up Sunday nights after Dr. Demento to hear Rodney Bingenheimer and The Young Marquis and Stanley. Of course, I found the vinyl soundtrack to WILD ANGELS years back, and play if often! Viva Davie Allen and the Arrows! (the movie aint that great...)

[@goodtimefolkrock]

love Davie Allan and the Arrows.......great biker culture music!

[@suz1862]

Thanks for sharing this great video! He is SUPER!

[@bec2112]

I caught Davie at the Guitar Geek Festival in January. Epic.

[@Codini273]

Fucking amazing, Davie Allan rules

[@999manman]

You and me both! I won't allow Guitar Hero to disgrace my house as long as I have a REAL axe on premises!!! Kerrang!!!

[@mikem4905]

Groovy baby!

[@oddfinger87]

I`ve seen a group on a cable access show called "The Fuzztones" do a kick-ass version of this track,so...this is the origional...this kicks ass better than the cover!!

[@sawmillslim]

Perhaps, Teen Cretin will be posting his video/ cover of this medley soon.

[@scottconnors8419]

Saw him live in different decades as well as link wray n dick fale, very unique cool music fuzzzzz rules ....

[@wnorcott]

The original recording was not played on Fender instruments, the whole band used Mosrite guitars and basses. The Arrows did use Fender amps though.

[@iTractorBek]

I totally agree with your 'Description' comments, hitwitstuff.

[@carlrudd1858]

..AND THE CROWD WENT........home.

[@supermaxitaly67]

Great stuff indeed... anyone knows the title of the song he plays in the video after Blues Theme, right after the drum break?

[@sawmillslim]

It's great to see that Davie is out and about...rockin'! His guitar style seems to bridge the gap between Dick Dale and.......Jimi Hendrix....like surf with fuzz and a psychodelic twist.

[@19555591]

Mecca California 1966, maybe down in San Pedro.

[@wnorcott]

Agreed. Dick Dale of the Del-Tones owned the very first 100 watt Fender amp ever made it was a custom job by Leo Fender. Leo was a big fan of the California surf scene. Fender get a brighter sound than Marshall and a cleaner sound too.

[@martysquire1054]

you Americans are so bad with history. Jim Marshall pulled apart one of your fender bass man amps that people thought was the business and after recovering from the less than enthusiastic construction stability and strength. He built a copy with off the shelf British audio parts. i can say this cos Im not british, but in that Era british Audio build standards were untouchable in the sheer power, stability, reliability cos they'd just come out of a war that was an existential threat which you yanks were desperate to stay out of (now we can't get you to stop) So American Military spec comms were disposable in doctrine, because of your countries wealth. Britian (like everywhere except the US) was hard up. If they built military com equipment it was gonna last several operators taking direct mortar splash. So, the Marshall JTM-45 was a Fender Bassman but with workarounds for different value components. Early british amps didn't distort. They gave you as much headroom as possibly and where a Fender would have blown up or made that rasping crackling distortion, british amps Just massaged the peaks in place while still drawing up the troughs. Its called compression and is why Brian Mays guitar can occasionally sound like a viola or cello.And Marshall amps meant bands could schlep round the world without organising local backline in every town. Just take the marshall Tanks. If Americans just thought there was more to the world than goin outta state. Maybe we wouldn't be living under the tyranny of Trump. How can middle America and the crybaby left who stayed home cos Bernie got passed on, sleep at night giving Donald Trump (Jesus!? what the hell) the keys to your arsenal. Come back nest term and Boast about fender amps and maybe I'll give a shit. Until then>>usa is babylon

[@GregLynn]

Damn right. I'll take "Blues' Theme" over ANYTHING Rusty Cooleyt has EVER recorded EVER. This tune should be on Guitar Hero. I don't know if it's downloadable... I play real guitar. :-)

[@sageguitar70]

I read on Wikipedia that this was the first song Eddie van Halen learned to play.

[@juliandunn]

that's a fender, you can see the fender logo on the trem

[@martysquire1054]

Yeah, Mosrite were just who the brand That DA and The Arrows endorsed to make a living playing music. They only exist as Japanese ventures model reissues now. Whats wrong with him paying a fender? At least its an offset.

[@joeklimko8339]

I hung around

[@joeklimko8339]

You have to of taken a walk on the wild side to get it RIP sonny

[@djdudemanhey]

TeenCretin- fitting name

[@ACAW1968]

This is THE original biker song back when it mattered.

[@skooter72]

Trivia for the day: This is the theme from the Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra biker movie, Wild Angels.

[@code2high]

Fuckin A!

[@jackcane7485]

This song plays in my head any time I fire up my Indian.

[@joeklimko8339]

Good days good shit look at what we have now crap

[@sawmillslim]

I understand that Davey had a gig with Mike Curb in the late '60's doing soundtracks for the "B" biker flicks, etc. It was a good move for him at the time.......as it could be a bitch for musicians........unless you were from England.

[@martysquire1054]

Oh you poor American, you had a tricky time for a couple of years? Harden up

[@videomaniac108]

That bass player's Peavey combo amp just isn't cutting it in the mix.

[@mikefournier2601]

Why are you 3 peace now

[@bodensick]

Hey, all you a-holes...just dig both of them. It seems a few of you have a limited vocabulary so I'll just say that I like them both. By the way, putting down Dick Dale is a way showing that you don't know shit about surf music. Can you dig it? CAN YOU DIG IT???

[@ToolsnFire]

his alternate notes for the skater dater theme suck, stick to the skater dater version

[@porchestra]

STELLER!