After the surreal, psychedelic layers of Soft Machine, let's move back to gorgeously sleepy 1959 instrumental hit by the Brooklyn brothers, and one of the dreamiest melodies ever written. Santo and Johnny Farina, the latter on electric guitar with their uncle Mike Dee on drums captured the public imagination in the late fifties when Santo, having learned steel guitar, bought himself a Fender triple-neck model, each with eight strings and used the influence of lessons in a Hawaiian style that became one of the first, if most gentle number of surf-style rock. They released more than a dozen albums, and this music really does capture that floating feeling of lying on the beach and drifting into other levels of consciousness. It is also commonly thought that this number heavily influenced early Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green to write his 1968 instrumental Albatross, which in in turn inspired the Beatles to write Sun King on their Abbey Road album. And so the dream flows on in the work of many other artists …
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