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Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 1284 Berlinesia, Germanifornia 
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Posted on Dec 21 2011 07:15 AM
Hi, my new 2nd band Los Apollos! How do you like it? With Los Apollos I play a Framus Sorento 6 guitar from 1969 or 1970/71. best cheers! —Twang cheers! Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 11058 Berkeley, CA 
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Posted on Dec 21 2011 08:07 PM
Dramatic, powerful, dynamic - Ralf you hit it out the park! —Danny Snyder Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF |
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19309 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Dec 21 2011 08:17 PM
Ralf that was very cool! I look forward to more new music from Los Apollos. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2367 San Jose, Ca.
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Posted on Dec 21 2011 08:35 PM
AWESOME, Ralf! Can't wait for the CD and the US (?) tour. Bob —Bob |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5310 the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Dec 21 2011 09:41 PM
good stuff — |
Joined: Mar 07, 2010 Posts: 2266 North Carolina
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Posted on Dec 21 2011 09:44 PM
So menacing! Enjoyed that a lot! Loved the song, and the video too. The looks on the elders faces was priceless. Clearly, they weren't there knowing what they were in for... We're they? Also, Vimeo says that video got posted 3 months ago... How's come you waited so long to let the cat out of the bag!?!? This is too good to keep under wraps!
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Joined: Mar 15, 2011 Posts: 8528 Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Dec 21 2011 10:10 PM
That is great. Hey! Some of those "elders" are younger than I. More please! —This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got. |
Joined: May 25, 2006 Posts: 537
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Posted on Dec 21 2011 10:27 PM
I like it a lot. It's trance-like. The perfect sound for dark, resin stained opium den. — |
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Joined: Mar 15, 2011 Posts: 8528 Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Dec 21 2011 10:28 PM
Or a tent at OctoberFest. norcalhodad wrote: — This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got. |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 10331 southern Michigan
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Posted on Dec 21 2011 11:06 PM
Very, very nice, Ralf!! An excellent video, too. The song seemed to exhibit some Bambis and Phantom Frank influences, which is very cool. Congrats to Los Apollos on a successful launch and here's hoping we hear a lot more from the band!! Ivan |
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Joined: Mar 07, 2010 Posts: 2266 North Carolina
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Posted on Dec 22 2011 07:08 AM
After watching the video a few more times, I noticed the Sputniks banner in the background. That tripped a vague memory of Ralf mentioning playing a show with them recently. Lil' search here, lil' search there and whaddyaknow... For ease of reading, I'll extract the Los Apollos excerpt here, AND embed the band photo, which I am sure if it were originally inline versus a link, the whole first round of announcement would have been much more memorable. (I, for one, am claiming a fully entitled blonde moment... I even responded to the original post for crying out loud! Sheesh.) HallmarkSweptWinger wrote:
Yes. Yes indeed... GO! Los Apollos, GO! Full Original Announcement from Ralf here. —Fady El Mirage @ ReverbNation |
Joined: Jul 16, 2008 Posts: 1377 Coyoacán, Distrito Federal 
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Posted on Dec 23 2011 10:57 AM
Cool to look & listen .. as Ivan said Phamtom Four influence is well recieved! Like it very very very much! I really dig that "dramatic twang" +1! —When you have to shoot ... shoot! Don't talk. "Los Grainders" > https://losgrainders.bandcamp.com |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3546 mojave desert, california
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Posted on Dec 23 2011 12:17 PM
The Beer-Garten crowd looks a bit perplexed: that seems to be a good thing! |
Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 3166 Denver, CO
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Posted on Sep 07 2012 06:03 PM
People complained that the crowd at the Doll Hut for the Disasternauts, Tequila Worms and Slacktone were not smiling. At least not all of them all of the time. I notice the crowd here is not smiling either. I don't think smiley faces are part of the pleasure reaction to surf music. I get a definite pleasure reaction to this and I'm not smiling either. |
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Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 1284 Berlinesia, Germanifornia
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Posted on Sep 08 2012 03:52 AM
Onslow_Beach wrote:
Yes, you For me it was also an obscure day too with these people there. The location was in a big garden colony in former East Berlin. Many people there look like in the bad 80`s sometimes. The video is joking with this whole situation. We had the thought that the band totally screwed up and nobody is interested in it. Except one dancer! (Surf band reality sometimes, haha! Twang cheers! Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 1284 Berlinesia, Germanifornia
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Posted on Sep 08 2012 03:59 AM
Noel wrote:
This guitar model is indeed unbelievabe good for Surf! Thick, rich, warm and brillant tone! Nice sustaiiiiiiiiin. Twang cheers! Ralf Kilauea https://kilaueas.bandcamp.com/album/touch-my-alien Last edited: Sep 08, 2012 03:59:57 |
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Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 1284 Berlinesia, Germanifornia
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Posted on Sep 08 2012 04:08 AM
Tuck wrote:
When I play on stage I try to get the audience to dance, yell and uproar. Simply let people get happy with the surf music! This a part of the sense of surf music for me! have a nice day with a little smile! —Twang cheers! Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25620 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Sep 08 2012 05:21 PM
Love this song, Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: Apr 30, 2013 Posts: 1 Grosse Pointe Park, MI
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Posted on Jul 06 2013 10:00 PM
To me, this was a fantastic video by a great band with legendary musicians. But there's hardly any views and fewer comments. How can this be? As one who is currently making a surfy album of my own I wonder, is there anyone out there who will want to listen? Does anyone care for this genre anymore? Or am I just stuck in a continuous loop of the late 90's surf revival while everyone else has moved on? Perhaps people in general are oblivious to the mere existence of this genre which would make sense since every time I ask someone if they like surf music they say "oh you mean like the Beach Boys"? Either way, if I turn out to be like the guy in the video dancing around by himself while everyone else seems to not even hear the band playing, that's fine with me. |
Joined: Dec 16, 2012 Posts: 16 Vancouver 
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Posted on Jul 06 2013 10:36 PM
Great. Having played surf for similar audiences more than once, the video really resonated with me. The reward for playing through such a show is that even bewildered people will approach afterward to say that they enjoyed it. Last edited: Jul 06, 2013 23:04:39 |
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Love the matching non-traditional surf guitars. Maybe if I work harder at it I can get a tone like that out of my semi-hollow archtop too. 
