bigtikidude
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Posted on Feb 02 2011 12:59 AM
The Insect Surfers will appear at the First Los Angeles Spaghetti Western Festival on March 19th at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA. The festival will be an all-day celebration of spaghetti westerns, with films, live music and special guests. The Insect Surfers will close out the festival (and no doubt bring down the house) with an instrumental tribute to Ennio Morricone's Spaghetti Western themes. For more info, visit www.SpaghettiWesternFestival.com
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
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mom_surfing
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the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Feb 02 2011 09:09 AM
should be a good one
— www.surfintheeye.com
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WhorehayRFB
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Huntington Beach, CA
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Posted on Feb 02 2011 12:24 PM
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DeadRanchHands
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Posted on Feb 02 2011 09:27 PM
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josheboy
Joined: Mar 13, 2009
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Twin Cities, MN
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Posted on Feb 03 2011 08:21 AM
Wow, what a cool idea. Plus its really close to my pad. I just might have to go 
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bigtikidude
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Posted on Feb 14 2011 01:40 PM
man, things drop down fast on here.
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
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bigtikidude
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Posted on Mar 13 2011 09:13 PM
2nd page again,
;-/
this coming Sat.
get tix now, before it sells out.
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
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bigtikidude
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Posted on Mar 15 2011 03:34 PM
so who's going?
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josheboy
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Twin Cities, MN
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Posted on Mar 15 2011 04:07 PM
Can't make it. Got a family thing out of town 
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bigtikidude
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Posted on Mar 16 2011 11:31 PM
L.A.’s own Insect Surfers will tip the hat to Ennio Morricone, performing tracks from “For a Few Guitars More” — an instrumental rock-and-roll tribute to the maestro’s Spaghetti Western themes.
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
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bigtikidude
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Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Mar 18 2011 08:22 PM
tomorrow!!!!
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
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StevieMartini
Joined: Mar 01, 2006
Posts: 490
Chicago
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Posted on Mar 21 2011 10:13 AM
So how was this? A show review for those who live to far away to make it. This sounded very intriguing. Beside the Hellbenders I can't think of an all night spaghetti western show I've seen.
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bigtikidude
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Posted on Mar 21 2011 01:26 PM
The first 2 movies were so so, of course Fist Full of Dollars was great.
It was neat to have interviews with some of the actors from the films.
Unfortunately when they did a big panel discussion, we were starving
and went to dinner while that was going on.
Hopefully it will show up on youtube.
As for the Insects.
I hate to bad mouth them, but they all agree.
There was great moments, and cringe worthy moments.
Over all I thought it was cool. Liked it a lot.
Though, I think they would have done better if they had started rehearsing a few months earlier.
Dave said the Rehearsals were actually better.
But they just had a off night.
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
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josheboy
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Twin Cities, MN
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Posted on Mar 21 2011 01:35 PM
bigtikidude wrote:
As for the Insects.
I hate to bad mouth them, but they all agree.
There was great moments, and cringe worthy moments.
Over all I thought it was cool. Liked it a lot.
Though, I think they would have done better if they had
started rehearsing a few months earlier.
Dave said the Rehearsals were actually better.
But they just had a off night.
I was talking with Dave at the LA MOAM show and he said that when he signed up to do this gig, he didn't realize how difficult it would be to prepare for it. I cant imagine having to learn all those songs so quickly.
I REALLY REALLY wanted to go to this, but alas, family duty took over
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StevieMartini
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Chicago
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Posted on Mar 21 2011 04:09 PM
Thanks for sharing. I wish I could of made it I really dig the insect surfers and it would have been cool to hear their take on the Morricone songs. Did anyone take video's and post 'em by chance?
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insectsurfer
Joined: Mar 22, 2006
Posts: 363
Los Angeles
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Posted on Mar 21 2011 07:39 PM
the whole thing was indeed videotaped, and we'll have some footage soon of some of the better numbers!
there was some difficulty at times with no moniters, the soundman for the theatre insisting that we turn down to literally subaudible levels ,and moments of general spazziness ,but there were some very satisfying moments.too.
i liked 'gatling gun' ,but the 2nd movie 'dead men don't count' was a little goofy. there was a funny interview moment when the star of the 2nd movie admitted that he didn't even remember doing the movie!!
the panel was interesting ,the participants mainly discussed the hardships of making low-budget movies where injuries and even deaths were not uncommon. the stars would sometimes end up doing their own stunts to show the crew that they were 'cool' and end up injured! sometimes they wouldn't even get paid!
looking forward to next year's festival!
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LittleKahunaCraig
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Orange County, CA
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Posted on Mar 21 2011 09:25 PM
You might be interested in this cd. Original and new spaghetti western songs done in a surf style...
http://www.dwmmusic.com/order.asp?product=SD044&artist=Various+%28SGS%29&title=Six+Gun+Surf&price=14%2E98
— Craig Skelly
Little Kahuna
www.littlekahunamusic.com
The Breakaways
The Curl Riders
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StevieMartini
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Chicago
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Posted on Mar 22 2011 11:39 AM
Cool thanks for sharing. Look forward to seein some footage. Congrats on a cool gig. Gigs like that don't happen often and it must of been a memorable experience.
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bigtikidude
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Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Mar 25 2011 04:56 PM
Insect Surfers will be doing their all- Ennio Morricone spaghetti western set to conclude the benefit, reprising their set from the 1st Annual Spaghetti Western Film Festival from last weekend..!/
They will be doing the music from this event,
and the Victor Vector Benefit this Sun. Mar. 27th,
at Suzy's in Hermosa Beach.
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
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