In an interview with Classic Bands, band member Bob Berryhill discussed how the group created “Wipe Out” when they were young. “We were fifteen years old,” he said. “Three fifteen-year-olds and a seventeen-year-old. When Ron Wilson came to me and said he had a dream about a song called ‘Surfer Joe,’ that was the first time I ever heard about anybody writing a song that actually came to me and said I've written a song. I'm fifteen years old. I can play guitar. I know how to read music. I can arrange. So, he starts singing it, and we sat around and strummed a few chords and came up with a basic framework for his song. I helped him write a few more lyrics so he can get five more verses and make a song out of it.”
Berryhill revealed that the actual creation of the song only took a few minutes overall. “So, Ronnie just starts playing a drum solo, which turned out to be the ‘Wipe Out’ drum solo,” he explained. “Well, Jim Fuller, myself, and Pat Connolly go, ‘We better put some chords and notes to this thing. Ronnie will make it a drum solo record if we don't play something.’ So, I started putting the chord structure to it, kind of like a bongo rock thing. Hey, a drum solo with a guitar was not original. Gene Krupa had been doing it for years. So, I just started playing some chords and doing drum breaks with chording and Ronnie doing the solo and Jim Fuller and Pat were fooling around with some notes. We said, 'Hey, that sounds good! Let's do that!' We put 'Wipeout' together in about ten minutes. We had a song. We recorded it about three times, and I think they took the second or third recording of it.”
Over the years, “Wipe Out” has been included in multiple films and television series, like Stranger Things and The Sandlot. The song led to the band’s induction into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019 and into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2020.
Unfortunately, most of the original members of The Surfaris have passed away. They include Jim Fuller, Ron Wilson, and Jim Pash. Berryhill, though, still performs and records.
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