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Jetpack is California musician Jetpack Dan or Daniel J.(real name: Dan J. Standiford) and Michael Kramer, who is a drummer and sometimes co-producer. Jetpack composes and performs surf rock, the guitar dominated instrumental music that was at its national peak in 1963, though it has retained a following, especially in Southern California. Jetpack often mixes the traditionally accepted surf instruments, such as Fender guitars and tube amplifiers, with nontraditional instruments such as fretless bass and 12 string Rickenbacker guitars, and branches into other related subgenres of rock such as spy, noir, and rockabily music. Jetpack is a computer game published by Software Creations in 1993. ...
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Originally, Jetpack released mainly original compositions with the exception of a few cover songs. Those cover songs later would gain him attention and invitations to do reinterpretations of other artists' work. Jetpack's first live performances where in the late 1980's to early 1990's. His music and sound was heavily inspired by Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet and The Plugz. In the mid to late 1990's, he relocated to Los Angeles and drew the attention of Pascal Records. Pascal and Jetpack licensed music to MTV for the television program, The Real World. In late 1998, recording of a studio album was begun. It was finished in 1999, but awaited release until early 2000 due to a family tragedy. The release was titled Planet Reverb.
 Daniel J. Daniel J. performed with Jetpack as a full band in many historical Los Angeles venues and was the opening act for Dick Dale, "king of the surf guitar". Later, Jetpack was placed on the same surf compilation as Dale with the 2003 release of Surf Guitar, a "best of" compilation of contemporary surf guitarists released by the Sharper Image. Pascal continued to license recordings for various compilations and films, Lion's Gate being one of the studios to feature Jetpack material in a film soundtrack. In 2004, Standiford was approached to produce and perform as Jetpack by CMH Records for their Vitamin Records division, which specialized in tribute albums. Due to his cover versions of the Hollie's "Bus Stop" and Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence", he was asked that the album feature only Jetpack and that he create a surf cd from twelve hits made famous by the band No Doubt. With Michael Kramer again adding his drumming skills to Jetpack, Surfin' to No Doubt was recorded and released in 2005. Later that year, ESPN featured original Jetpack music on its program, Longboard T.V. A third album was then recorded and will be released in early 2006. Image File history File links JETPACK_DAN1. ...
Dick Dale (born Richard Anthony Mansour on May 4, 1937, in Quincy, Massachusetts) is a pioneer of surf rock and one of the most influential guitarists of the early 1960s. ...
Albums
- Planet Reverb (Pascal)
- Sharper Image:Surf Guitar (Sugo, compilation)
- Summer of 2004 (Surfbands, compilation)
- Surfin' to No Doubt (Vitamin)
- Attack of the 12 String (to be announced)
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