A look inside Hollywood and the movies. : HARD VIBRATIONS : Ride the Waves as Loud as You Can

In Kathryn Bigelow’s surf-thriller “Point Break,” Keanu Reeves plays a hip FBI bloodhound who hits the beaches and rides the pipelines investigating a series of mysterious bank heists. So when it came time to put together music for the film, MCA Records soundtrack wiz Kathy Nelson knew she couldn’t rely on the Beach Boys--the movie needed music that fit today’s rad surf lifestyle.

The result is a soundtrack brimming with hard-edged rock, featuring such bands as L.A. Guns, Concrete Blonde, Ratt, Shark Island and Loudhouse. In the movie you’ll hear Jimi Hendrix’s “If 6 Was 9” playing during a party scene, but the soundtrack’s only holdover from the ‘60s is a Liquid Jesus remake of Love’s psychedelic classic “7 and 7 Is.”

“Kathryn had cut a surfing scene to the original Love song,” Nelson explains. “We wanted to update it, so we got Liquid Jesus to do a new version, since they were big Love fans. But you may end up hearing both in the movie. While Kathryn was editing the scene, she found that the original Love song was the only version where the guitars really cut through the sound of the surf, so she may end up going back and forth between the two bands.”