Whatever problems and changes California surfers were going through in the 1970s, the state continued to do a few things well. It remained the sport’s design and manufacturing center. It produced the most (and most of the best) surf films. Surf-related products in general flourished between San Diego and Santa Cruz. One of the most popular was introduced in 1972, when a bearded Santa Barbara surf shop owner named Fred Herzog packed and shipped out his first case of Sex Wax, the best-branded s...
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 /
