Changes

== Decline ==

== Decline ==

With the arrival of the [[British Invasion]] and the subsequent development of [[psychadelia]], more sophisticated styles of music became popular. Few surf bands, with the exception of the Beach Boys, were able to adapt. As [[Jimi Hendrix]] (whose guitar was strung and played in the same way as Dick Dale's had been) said in ''Third stone from the Sun'', "...may you never hear surf music again."

With the arrival of the [[British Invasion]] and the subsequent development of [[psychedelia]], more sophisticated styles of music became popular. Few surf bands, with the exception of the Beach Boys, were able to adapt. As [[Jimi Hendrix]] (whose guitar was strung and played in the same way as Dick Dale's had been) said in ''Third stone from the Sun'', "...may you never hear surf music again."

Although surf music rarely troubled the charts after the mid-1960's  the simplicity and lasting appeal of the surf sound, means that it is still played today by many bands, and the stripped-down fast rock and roll of surf and related styles was influential upon the development of [[punk rock]] in the late 1970s, as well as upon later bands such as [[the Pixies]] and [[the Jesus and Mary Chain]].

Although surf music rarely troubled the charts after the mid-1960's  the simplicity and lasting appeal of the surf sound, means that it is still played today by many bands, and the stripped-down fast rock and roll of surf and related styles was influential upon the development of [[punk rock]] in the late 1970s, as well as upon later bands such as [[the Pixies]] and [[the Jesus and Mary Chain]].