I think I’m afflicted! I know it’s uncool to say and that I should really like it, but I find that surf sound incredibly gimmicky and tiring. Small doses are ok, is this intro here “surfy”, I always liked that?
I’m no expert!
That undistorted metal guitar certainly sounds surfish, but then I was never a fan of THAT type of metal either, I never 'got' Pantera for instance and almost all Nu Metal left me cold, I really don’t like the sound of shred that much. A lot of Metallica is already too brutal for me, I like even heavy music to retain some swing. A pick hitting a string at a 100 miles an hour sounds mechanical to me, Alvin Lee’s Goin’ Home intro at Woodstock is about as fast as I can take it!