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Hot Buttered Soul: The Movie (Surf DVD)
Your Price: $23.75
Mfg. Part No.: OEV 09 07HOT
A few months later, 20-year-old Terry Fitzgerald, fresh from a Hawaiian winter season and a big fan of funk and soul rhythms decided to identify the name for his new surfboard company with this multi-layered music genre. But all three words didnt quite fit on the rainbow sash logo.
Thus Hot Buttered Surfboards were born - and with it one of surfings true originals.
But the third word never went missing. Instead its lived in the handmade, hand-painted HB surfboards and the styles that arose from riding them, over three decades, in the best surf on the planet.
Hot Buttered Soul: The Movie draws on a deep well of surf cinema heritage to present the surfing of the HB extended family. Choice selections from HBs Sultans of Speed series, along with surf flick classics Morning of the Earth, A Winters Tale, Fantasea, Storm Riders and more, are expertly intercut by editor Mick Waters, with interviews and commentary from Andrew Kidman and Derek Hynd.
Wherever they went, Sultans trips always had the knack of scoring amazing waves.
Viewers will be stunned by the NSW north coast sessions of 88, when in an outrageous 10 day binge, Poto, Simon Law, Cattle and Deaney surfed all the classic pointbreaks at their maximum size and shape.
Theyll also freak at Joels hair-raising couple of bombs at a terrifying Irish reefbreak, and wallow in the pleasure of perfect Periscope Point on Sumbawa, Indonesia, before the surf camps arrived.
Then the movie swings to a down home sequence that sees Terry, Kye and Joel head back to Jeffreys Bay on a family trip with some timeless TF equipment, including Driftas and wing pin single fins, and ride em into the ground at J-Bay and the rarely glimpsed Cape St Francis.
Yet underlying it all is the still-astonishingly fresh lines and torquing style of TF in the 1970s, blowing away the world at Jeffreys, Rocky Point, Uluwatu and various lesser known locations. Its a sublime treat watching todays power surfing at its moment of invention.
The unique soundtrack, featuring ex Tamam Shud guitarist Tim Gaze in front of a six piece band, was written, practiced, and finally recorded as a single 59-minute free-flowing piece, in sync with the movies final cut. Its an inspired enhancement to inspired footage.
The unique packaging will feature two photos which can either remain in their original frame or be removed as individual collectors items. The first 3 different series of artworks will be limited to 600, 600 and 800. A limited numbered edition of 42 units, of each design, will come with hand signed photos by the Sultan of Speed himself.
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