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 Earth after a impromptu conversation with a pair of nuns in downtown Sydney. One of the nuns asked...
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 Rubberman Cometh /
- The Impossible Wave /
- Into the Vortex /
- Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker /
