Jim Fuller (musician)

{{short description|American musician, singer, songwriter, Surf musician}}

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James Evans Fuller (27 June 1947 – 3 March 2017)[http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=James-Fuller&lc=0707&pid=185293287&mid=7350864 In Memory of James Evans Fuller June 27, 1947 – March 3, 2017] accessdate 19 January 2018 was the lead guitarist and main songwriter for the 1960s rock band The Surfaris.[http://thesurfaris.com/history.html The Surfaris.com: The Surfaris website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022123836/http://thesurfaris.com/history.html |date=22 October 2014 }}[http://thesurfaris.com/history.html The Surfaris.com: History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022123836/http://thesurfaris.com/history.html |date=22 October 2014 }}{{cite book|last=Feldman|first=Christopher G.|title=The Billboard book of no. 2 singles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-LgXlQnsDK4C&pg=PA69|accessdate=19 May 2010|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Watson-Guptill|isbn=978-0-8230-7695-6|page=69}}

Fuller was known as the "Godfather" of surf music, a Californian instrumental music.

He was also a studio musician, and performed on many other artists' such as "The Seeds", rock, folk, and blues songs throughout his career, performing vocals, lead and bass guitar.

Fuller, with his Fender Stratocaster guitar in photographs and its sound on The Surfaris albums, contributed to the popularity of Leo Fender's instruments.

He is featured on "Hollywood's Rock Walk of Fame".

{{As of|2004}} he continued to perform with The Surfaris and his other band, "Jim Fuller & The Beatnik" with a fan base in United States, Europe, and Japan.

He died on 3 March 2017, in Arcadia, California, at the age of 69.{{cite news|title= Jim Fuller, 'Wipe Out' Guitarist with Surfaris, Dies|url= http://bestclassicbands.com/jim-fuller-obituary-3-5-17/|accessdate= 20 March 2017|work=Best Classic Bands}}

Along with the rest of the Surfaris, Fuller was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2019.