"Where can I buy a longer attention span? " Well, a weekly 3hr. gig for $ at a major resort in Hawaii would help you focus on 40-50 tunes......and two guitars trading off on leads/rhythm helps a lot......growing up with a lot of these tunes helps cause you just know some of them. I mean, they're just in your head. The best part is being a proud musician that got himself into the position to be chosen to be in a working band that gets to play surf music. Yeah we have a lot of tunes available but we don't do them all in one night or the bartenders would string us up on a coconut tree. Wooza, i think you should call the one in Gm.......ummmm....."Rocket Reef" after a surf spot here on Kauai.......nah, just kidding!

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I saw Focus at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, snuck upstairs and saw my friends sitting on a sofa with Jan and Henry Mancini in the green room.
Here's my list:
1. Pacifica - Los Straitjackets
2. Spanish Blue - The Aqua Velvets
3. Contact - The Pyramids
4. Baja - The Astronauts
5. Pipeline - The Chantays
6. The Wedge - Dick Dale
7. Bubble Bath - The Bambi Molesters
8. Misirlou - Dick Dale
9. Catharsis - The Kilaueas
10. Searchin’ for Da Cat - The Blue Hawaiians
11. Can You Dig It? - Los Straitjackets
12. Earthquake at Surf City- Jon & the Nightriders
13. Aqua Nova - The Aqua Velvets
14. Venetian Silhouetts - The Aqua Velvets
15. Rell Sunn Aloha - Slacktone
16. Nocturne - Slacktone
17. Deception Bay - The Penetrators
18. Depth Charge - Jon & the Nightriders
19. Apache - The Shadows
20. The Last Day of Summer - The Blue Hawaiians
21. Mr. Moto - The Bel Airs
22. Longboard Legato - Slacktone
23. The Victor - Dick Dale
24. The Enchanted Isle - Martin Denny
25. Blue Star - Original
26. Surfrider - The Lively Ones
27. Lift & Separate - Slacktone
28. South Run - Slacktone
29. Spanish Moon - Jon & the Nightriders
30. The Breeze and I - The Bambi Molesters
31. A Gun for Ringo - Ennio Morricone
32. Coffin Closer - Slacktone
33. The Last Ride - The Bambi Molesters
34. Moon Tide - Jon & the Nightriders
35. New York - The Mach IV
36. Cecilia Ann - The Bambi Molesters
37. Secret Agent Man - Johnny Riverrs
38. La Planche - The Vanduras
39. Final Wave for the Day - The Bambi Molesters
40. Fade Away - Laika & the Cosmonauts
41. Theme for Young Lovers - The Shadows
42. Shake & Stomp - Dick Dale
43. Moving Target - Jon & the Nightriders
44. Longboard Queen - The Razorblades
45. Eternity - The Razorblades
46. Mar Gaya - The Fender IV
47. The Hearse - Al Casey
48. Taco Wagon - Dick Dale

Here's the setlists from our show in San Dimas Last week,

SET ONE

Elevated Operator... Original
Hawaii 5-0
Walk, Don’t Run/ California Dreamin'
TheGood, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Godfather
MAS*H /The X-Files Theme/ Out of Limits
Ghost Riders in the Sky Suite (including / Riders on the Storm/ Bonanza/ The Magnificent 7/F Troop/Shenandoah/The Rifleman/William Tell Overture/Comanche)
The Simpsons
Surfbound
Mr. Moto
Pink Panther / Inspector Gadget/Banzai Pipeline
A Summer Place

SET TWO

Let’s Go / California Sun
Penetration
Drownin’ Out ... Original
Eleanor Rigby
Spanish Blue
Tailspin
Esperanza
James Bond Medley (Dr. No/Goldfinger/Live and Let Die)
Mission Impossible
Secret Agent Man
Wish You Were Her ...original
Fleur de Surf (Fur Elise with bits of the 5th Symphony, 9th Symphony and Roll Over Beethoven)
The Jester
Pipeline

SET THREE

Undun
Surfin’ with Joe ....Original
Baja
Johnny Guitar
Apache
Seville
Formosa Rectangle...original
Drew Carey Theme (Cleveland Rocks)
Attila
Surf’s Upper....original
Telstar
Miserlou

There is Surf east of Sepulveda.

Dusty2539....."Apache" is a Shadows song, even tho it's been recorded by quite a few groups, we always credit it to The Shadows.....and i just learned "Peace Pipe"!! When i'm considering Shadows tunes (thanks stormtiger!) i feel i need to add some of my own influence as they're kinda short. I realize purists don't care for that but....for recording and 'live' i try to make them a bit longer cause they're such great tunes. By that i mean i add another bridge or chorus or whatever and i am known as The Milkman and others call me stretch!!! And i suppose we all do that to an extent......right? I would be interested in hearing the Atlantics and the Denvermen so i'll look them up.
Aloha you surf dogs!!
R-R
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The TakeOffs
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Have The Shadows ever had a 'hit' in the States ?

Just wondering. I've been listening to, and playing Apache since about 1963, and I didn't even hear The Shadows version until last year.

Louie

Louie......i don't think The Shadows ever had a "hit" in America and i too heard their version for the first time last year on their myspace.....i know Apache from Jorgen Ingman and i haven't heard a better version than his. It's one of those signature tunes from our youth and it sounds a little like a Les Paul style recording to me. God bless Les Paul!!!!

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This is a list of what Thee Swank Bastards play. We do have a bunch more I just can't think of them right now.

F – Green Onions
D –Comanche
E – Rumble
Big Sky
Surf Beat
Misirlou
Pipeline
Peter Gunn
Pink Panther
James Bond
Munsters
Inspector Gadget
Revelle/La Cucharacha
Don’t Monkey with Tarzan
Intoxica
Church Key
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Pygmy Dance
F# –Big Surf
G – Penetration
C# – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
A – Sweet Leaf
G – Fairies Wear Boots
A – The Wizard
E – N. I. B.
E – War Pigs
E – Apple Jack Flash
F# – High Tide on Neptune
A – Cunt Tree Cowgirl
G – Ride It/Hang Seven
A – Navan Johnson
E –Nitro
E-Let’s Go Trippin’
B –Chitlins con Carne
A –Apache
C – Adventures of Flingel Blunt
D –Mr. Moto
E –Rebel Rouser
Green Hornet
Eb –Infatuation
A –Surf Rider
Surf Bunny
Dog Pound Hop
Bb –Night Train
B – Moment of Truth
C – Hernando’s Hideaway
E – Getaway Car
G – Wetter is Better
Surf Man Blues
F#- Fuzzy Britches
D – Just Stick the Tip In
G –Black Sabbath
C – What’s Your Favorite Flavor Tang?

4 out of 5 people prefer Thee Swank Bastards to nothing.
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