On the advice of a friend, they entered a talent contest being held at a local Knights of Columbus hall, and won studio time at a local recording facility. The two were country music fans, and they'd worked up an act where they impersonated Johnny Cash and his guitarist, Luther Perkins. The story of the Trashmen begins in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1955, when close friends Tony Andreason and Mike Jann were learning to play guitar. 1964's Surfin' Bird was the only album they released in their original run, but 2022's The Best of the Trashmen gives a better overview of their career, and 1990's Live Bird '65 – ''s Teen Trot are archival releases that capture how they sounded on-stage in front of an audience. It's also an anomaly in their catalog for the most part, the Trashmen were a surf band in Minnesota, a land of lakes, singing about cool cars and hanging ten over reverb-enhanced guitar lines and a crisp rhythm section. It was wild in a way few singles were in 1963, and guaranteed the Trashmen a certain immortality it's been a staple in movies, television shows, commercials, and oldies radio shows ever since. Arguably the greatest landlocked surf band of all time, the Trashmen are best remembered for their debut single, "Surfin' Bird," a manic blast of primitive garage rock thunder with a crazed, gravel-voiced singer howling "Papa Oom Mow Mow" over it all.
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