Operation: CRUSH CANCER (Benefit for Spanky)

JetPowers

It's a go!

The Southern Surf Syndicate Spanktacular, Operation: CRUSH CANCER

At The Star Bar in Atlanta, March 26th-27th. Benefit for Brian (Spanky Twangler) Rogers.

Thursday March 26th

9:00-9:30pm Slim Chance and the Convicts
9:45-10:15pm The Mystery Men!
10:30-10:50pm Myopic i (Debut!)
11:05-11:35pm The Holland Dutch
11:50-12:40pm Cletis and His City Cousins
12:55-close Thee Crucials

Friday March 27th

9:00-9:30pm The Surge!
9:45-10:15pm The Electric Cycles
10:30-11:00pm Dragline (Re-union!)
11:15-11:45pm The Penetrators w/ special guests
12:00-12:50pm The Woggles
1:05-close The Forty-Fives

The will be DJs each night and a fund-raising raffle too!

Atlanta's Surf Community is represented by The Mystery Men! on Thursday and The Surge! on Friday! Also, you'll note The Penetrators on Friday, too. Spanky just might be well enough to travel and make it!

www.starbar.net

Jet

JetPowers · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject:

D-Day minus 7!!

Here's the poster:

Hope see some of y'all there!

Jet

MadScientist · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:43 pm Post subject:

We are REALLY excited about this event. It's going to be 2 days of good music all for a great cause!! We're glad to be a part of it.

Guitar!

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eddiekatcher · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject:

You betcha Mad dude. The Surge! is stoked and super happy to be a part of this great event.

We will be hanging it out there with an all original set, and plan on debuting our brand new original called "M.O.T.Sa."

A great time for an even GREATER cause.

Eddie
Richard
Mitch
Sticks

The Surge!
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bigtikidude · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject:

have a great show everybody,
and get well soon Spanky.
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Brian · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:00 am Post subject:

Yeah, have a great show. I checked Spanky's myspace the other day, sounds like he is doing better. So glad to hear that.
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DannySnyder · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:18 am Post subject:

All the best from your friends in the West Cheers

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JetPowers · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:06 am Post subject:

D-DAY!!!!!!

Today's the day! Yer final reminder about this great event for a great guy!

The Southern Surf Syndicate Spanktacular: Operation CRUSH CANCER

Benefit for Brian (Spanky Twangler) Rogers

at The Star Bar tonight and tomorrow night!

www.starbar.net

You'll want to stop by an ATM to make sure ya have plenty of cash! Not just to donate, put also buy posters, t-shirts, raffle tickets and more!

We'll be raffling Penetrators Packages, Criminal Records Packages, Memorial Tattoo packages, original art (by Joe Peery), and tickets.

Here's the schedule:

Thursday March 26th $5 donation (minimum)

9:00-9:30pm Slim Chance and the Convicts
9:45-10:15pm The Mystery Men!
10:30-10:50pm Myopic i (Debut!)
11:05-11:35pm The Holland Dutch
11:50-until... Cletis and His City Cousins

Friday March 27th $10 donation (minimum)

9:00-9:30pm The Surge!
9:45-10:15pm The Electric Cycles
10:30-11:00pm Dragline (Re-union!)
11:15-11:45pm The Penetrators w/ special guests
12:00-12:50pm The Woggles
1:05-close The Forty-Fives

Unfortunately, Thee Crucials had to cancel. (Hope ya feel better soon, Shake!)

Doors open at 8pm. Music WILL start at 9pm sharp so don't be late!

Help us spread the word, and see ya there!

Jet

Brian · Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:45 am Post subject:

How did it go? I'm seeing some cool pictures trickle in on Facebook...
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UnsteadyFreddie · Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:37 pm Post subject:

in my prayers, Spanky

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WoodyJ · Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:49 pm Post subject:

Well, I'll chime in since (surprisingly) no one else has.

I was roadie-ing for The Surge at the Friday night event, and it was awesome. The Star Bar was totally PACKED. If the Fire Marshal has showed up he would have freaked out.

I didn't get to stay to see all six bands, but I'm sure someone who did will write a good review. I did meet a couple of new surf friends from The Mad Scientists. Aside from the band personnel, all the "usual suspects" were there including The Reverend Rex Reverb, Greg Fleeman, Gregory Nicoll, Bill Racer(sp.?) and many, many others whose names escape me at the moment because I'm old. Plus there were so many people there, that I'm sure I didn't notice everyone that was there as I was concentrating on the myriad of hot women that were present. All of them much too young for me, though...dammit. Rolling Eyes

Lots of merchandise was available for sale, some other great stuff was raffled off, and hopefully a nice big pile of moolah went to Spanky to help defray what must be some massive medical bills. Our thoughts and prayers are with you, Brian.

And last but not least, Jet Powers did a masterful MC-ing job as well. Kudos, Jet!!
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JetPowers · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:46 am Post subject:

Thanks Woody!

I'm pretty much recovered from 2 days of Spanktacular activity.

The Operation was a great success!

I'll keep this mostly surf-centric.

The Mystery Men! were the ATL surf reps on Thurs and boy, did they deliver!

From the opening chords they announced their presence and dedication to the cause, and the crowd really dug it! and they made some new fans.

In fact one of the guys who worked with me on the benefit is a local promoter and was so impressed that he gave The Mystery Men! the opening slot for an upcoming Legendary Shackshakers show on the spot!

On Fri, The Surge! kicked off the festivities with a massive wave of reverb that really got the crowd goin', and set the stage for many great things to come!

The emotional and musical highlight of the show was The Penetrators with Spanky playing lead!

Spanky's last treatment was 10 days prior and he was determined to play---and boy did he ever! Sticks and Trace anchored the action as The Penetrators ripped through a one of a kind set that featured some special guests.

Caroline (of The Ramblers) came to do a first ever vocal with The Penetrators--Bobby Fuller's "New Shade of Blue" that was a beautiful jaw dropper.

El Capitan joined the lads on stage to go through a song he wrote, but only The Penetrators have actually played live, "Cielito Lindo" an entrancing S Western number.

Then John McGowan, local guitar savant, hit the stage to play a few the boys--John is a close friend of the Rogers family.

Spanky looked ande played great, and his brief address to the crowd was inspirational!

Overall, the event raised over $3500 for the Rogers famliy.

Spanky has an appt this Tues with his doctors to discuss the next phase of his treatment. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers!

Jet

www.myspace.com/briansupdates

eddiekatcher · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:40 am Post subject:

Boy, was that ever a great event!!!!!!!! Two long nights at the Star Bar is tough on the "Old Dude," but I would not have missed it for the world.

As Woody mentioned, the loyal Southern Surf Fans came out in droves. It was great to catch up with a lot of cool people I had not seen in way too long.

Thanks, Cpt Powers for allowing The Surge! to be a part the action. You can count on us anytime you want to do it again.

Sir Twangler is a fine gentleman and we admire him a lot. It was an extremely moving experience to see him spring into action once again!

I play surf/instro today because I crossed paths with Spanky and Rip at the the Star Bar in January 1997. Those guys changed my life. Thank you guys.

ed
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DannySnyder · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:38 am Post subject:

That sounds awesome, I wish I could have been there.
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Pancho Rigatoni - Pasta del Mar
Zinc Oxide - Frankie and the Pool Boys

Twangler · Gremmie Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 147

Thanks to everybody that came out and the bands and especially Jet who did so much to pull this event off. I'll post a detailed account in the next few days. So many thoughts and emotions and still not the energy to place the words in proper order. It was a night like no other.

Spanky