Surfers

Aptly named not merely because their music followed in the grand tradition from the Ventures, Dick Dale as well as the Beach Boys, the Surfers — singer Kelly Slater and multi-instrumentalists Peter King and Rob Machado — were almost all actually internationally-famed professional surfers; Slater, a global champion often over, was famous as “the JORDAN of browsing,” with countless honors bestowed upon both Ruler (also an MTV character) and Machado aswell. Their debut LP, 1998’s Music from the Tube, was made by T-Bone Burnett.