Chapter: 5
Barefoot Revolution
- Revolution is not a Dinner Party
- The Tao of George
- Getting Slippery with Bob McTavish
- Bismarck with a Tan
- Plastic Machine
- Enlightenment at Honolua Bay
- Panic on the Showroom Floor
- Style Takes a Dive
- Everybody Must Get Stoned
- Surfer Goes Electrical Bananas
- No Contest
- There Will be Slaps
- Kook Straps, Cadillacs, and Sex Wax
- Blame it on the Boogie
- Country Soul
- Higher and Brighter with Alby Falzon
- Fresh Blood on the Newsstand
- Long Road to Bells Beach
- Speed Freaks
- Gods of Thunder
- The Impossible Wave
- Into the Vortex
- Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker
- The Rubberman Cometh
Higher and Brighter with Alby Falzon
Alby Falzon, 1972
Michael Peterson, in Morning of the Earth
Alby Falzon. Photo: Jeff Divine
Terry Fitzgerald. Photo: Falzon
Morning of the Earth did for surfing naturalism what Endless Summer did for surf travel and adventure, and Miki Dora did for surf rebellion. It gave surfers a bigger, grander, more colorful version of their own lives.
If soul surfing was hard to define, people knew it when they saw it, and with Alby Falzon's 1972 film Morning of the Earth, the concept was given a dazzling big-screen treatment. Falzon, originally from Sydney, had worked as a photographer and cameraman for Surfing World publisher Bob Evans, and then went on to cofound Tracks magazine in 1970. He later said he was inspired to make Morning of the E...
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