Just to be clear, "Au Revoir" doesn't imply that this band is breaking up, right? You still haven't played Grand Rapids. You can't break up.

Roll call!
Who has received their physical copies of this masterpiece (Au Revoir) already?

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homerhead wrote:

JONPAUL wrote:

Roll call!
Who has received their physical copies of this masterpiece (Au Revoir) already?

me me me! So good.

Mine just arrived and is now on the turntable. The vinyl version sounds so good! Yes, a masterpiece.

JONPAUL wrote:

Roll call!
Who has received their physical copies of this masterpiece (Au Revoir) already?

Essentially sitting on my front porch watching for the mail truck!

• Jamie
  SSS Agent #181
  Cartoons drenched in reverb!
  The Mystery Men?
  El Capitan & The Reluctant Sadists

I picked up both releases on vinyl from Lee/Dionysus - one during the convention this year, and the other ordered from him after I got home and realized what an idiot I was for not getting both records when I was there.

I've been playing Les Agamemnonz NON STOP for the last several weeks and simply cannot get enough.

Was just about to start a new thread titled "(Was the) Best Kept Secret of Surf/Instro of the last few years" and gush about these guys. Ok, so maybe not a 'secret' per-se; this is page 3 of a thread dedicated to them after all.

So I'll simply bump it with the comment "Perhaps the most overlooked Surf/Instro band of the last few years!". It blows me a way how little these guys are talked about here on SG101. I mean, search the site for exact word or phrase 'les agamemnoz' and get 9 pages of results where the overwhelming majority are citations of plays in various radio shows. Banter about them? Pretty sparse, and deeply deserving of being talked about SOOOO much more!

Brilliant recordings from these guys. If you don't have them already, and I suspect many of you don't, open a new browser and get to steppin'. Order everything you can find. Now. Here's an advance "You're welcome". ;)

Signed,
Les Agamemnonz's Newest Fan Boy

PS - @BigTikiDude/Jeff - if you've not already lined these guys up for the Convention ...whatchu waitin' for!?!?! \m/ \m/

Fady

El Mirage @ ReverbNation

2028... must be when they come up for parole, 'cause these boys are KILLIN' it.

Not that we all have to like the same things, but I'm with you Jeff. Pretty hard to get my head around anyone considering themselves fans of Surf/Instro not digging this band.

Fady

El Mirage @ ReverbNation

simoncoil wrote:

Jeff, did they name anything particular reasons, why they don't like the band?
To me, saying something like that, is like saying you don't like Los Twang! Marvels or the Bambi Molesters. I just don't understand how somebody, who is into surf music, wouldn't love Les Agamemnonz.

I think the only reason you wouldn't like the band is because you can't pronounce the name!

http://thewaterboarders.bandcamp.com/

Whoops, sorry I meant hopefully in 2018, (damn keyboard on the phone)
As for why someone wouldn't like them.
If I recall correctly, they said it was just to light n quirky.
Whatever..... Can't force everybody to like everything.
But I also know people that don't Like the Bambi Molestors.
And I find that even harder to figure out. But to each his own.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

I have to confess that I am one of those people that couldn't get into them for quite a while. I got the download of the first album a year or two ago, and it failed to leave much impression on me the few times I listened to it. I sometimes have a hard time with really trad new stuff as I immediately start comparing it to the old stuff and it often just doesn't measure up - whereas the more modern approaches that (I'd say, anyway) add to the tradition are definitely more to my taste and stand on their own without me comparing them to the classics. But with so many people raving about Les Agamemnonz after their appearance at the Surfer Joe festival in June, I decided to give them another shot.

The week after SJ took place I had to travel to Santa Clara, CA, and there at some point went for a long walk with the album on my iPod so I could pay close attention. I started getting it at that point. The first song that really impressed me was Salma VI, and from there I think I started getting what the band was about. They have a very unique rhythmic approach and yes, quirky melodic approach, and once I recognized that it started falling into place and I began to enjoy them. I checked out the second album on Spotify, and soon after ordered "De A a Z" (both albums) on CD from Double Crown. I've been listening to it a great deal since then, and the more I get to know the songs, the more I love them! It's now become some of my favorite surf music of the past three years. It just goes to show that sometimes it takes time until one's heart and mind are in the right place for the music.

Ivan
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Bump worthy thread given the news about the Asbury Park Surf Music Festival 2018!

L O V E these guys.

For those not yet hip to 'em...
https://lesagamemnonz.bandcamp.com

Fady

El Mirage @ ReverbNation

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