February Birthdays 
Frankie & The Poolboys just received a review in the latest issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine:
Frankie & The Pool Boys - Vintage Guitar - May 2009
by Dan Forte
If The Ventures, for instance, were still in the practice of mining regional bands' repertoires for material, they do well to check out ... Frankie & The Pool Boys. This self-titled splinter project of Pollo Del Mar guitarist Ferenc Dobronyi features every surf band's drummer of choice, Dusty Watson, and PDM bassist Jeff Turner along with such guest guitarists as Slacktone's Dave Wronski, The Surf Coasters' Shigeo Naka, The Space Cossacks' Ivan Pongracic and The Ventures Bob Spalding (supplying "wiggly guitar" on the Ventures' "Fugitive," one of the album's few covers. Fourteen of the CD's songs were written by Dobronyi. Inspired by Frank Zappa's Ruben & The Jets, he began recasting Pollo songs as surf instrumentals, and then started writing new tunes. The result is perhaps the party record of this batch! You want reverb? Try on the throbbing "The Raven" or the seductive (and onomatopoetically titled) "Teke Teke Teke." In the mood for whammy bar? There's the Shadowesque "Finito Bandito" or the whacked out "Little Woman, Big Dog" featuring Naka. And, just for yucks, Frankie & Co. turn Sir Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March" into "Pumpin' Surfing Stance" (get it?). Graduation day will never be the same.
If you haven't picked up this CD yet, you can purchase it online at:
www.pollodelmar.com
www.dblcrown.com
Or at one of Pollo Del Mar's upcoming shows:
Sunday, February 15
The Hotel Utah - 100 Year Celebration!
Fourth and Bryant in San Francisco
2PM - 6PM
with Slacktone & The Pyronauts
More shows to be announced soon!
—Sean
Double Crown Records
www.doublecrownrecords.com
Surf CD's / Vinyl / Fanzines / DVD's
Aloha Screwdriver - Lunar Wobble CD
The Nebulas - Euphorion LP / CD
Supertubos - The Fourth Drive CD
Continental Magazine - Issue #38 w/17 Song CD
