Nice to see Eddie with a Jaguar again.

"as he stepped into the stealthy night air... little did he know the fire escape was not there"

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Hey I was invited along with anyone else geeky enough to bring a guitar.

I would say the shredmistress was by far the lowest spot of the night. The girl who strapped on... er... the vocalizer was a real beauty, with a great voice. She said it works better most of the time, they had some difficulties.

In my opinion, the fest would have been just fine with the mix of, hillbilly, surf, pickin' sort of stuff without the blues or shred.

During both of those sets the crowd was very distracted... The Steel player Herb Remington was great... the guy had the most amazing ear... perfect pitch and he wrung every ounce he could out of each note. NIce to hear an older gentleman do so well...

The Bakersfield guy was Brian Longbeck! Jaw-dropping-to-ground Speed. Really fun to listen too. I hope he is playing out there still.

Eddie Bertrand played with TRAD TONE! for which I was grateful, the last time I heard him he was wailing with a 70's sound.

The guitars on display were killer, a 1960 tele custom in shell pink owned by Jimmy Bryant, in near mint condition, brought by his son... who also had a photographic history of his dad, in two big binders, that was given to him by a family friend.

In the audience was Danny Amis, Thom Bresh, and Insect... Dave Arnson. and I am sure other famous folks.. Tiki Tena and BTD need to fill in some stuff... I gotta get back to work.

What a blast!!

THe NEpTuNeS

photog4surfbands
Probably the low point of the night was Herb
Remington playing steel. He used to play with the Bob Wills western
swing band of the 40s on. Not that he wasn't a great player, he just
wasn't the best part of the show!

The above represents the entire state of Texas and western swing fans every where.

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Wow, what a cool show that must've been. I hope Deke puts out a DVD of the event. I have the 1st two - great stuff.

He records every event, but I was bummed to hear that the 3rd year
show was not ready for sale. But it will be on his web site soon.
so I assume that this years will be about a year away.

Review:

I was assuming that the shred mistress was gonna be the low point, boy was I correct. worse than I thought.

I was feeling really crappy again, so I was hanging way in the back, and (it was cooler back there, Rich) But I could hear the whole show fine,
and it was a really long, but great night of music. Like I said before.
I dont own music in these styles, but I like to see it played live.
Great job to all the bands and Deke again!!!

I was really blown away by the Surf Jam. I was expecting it to be just very so so. and it was prettty amazing.

the surf back up band was Deke on a White Jazzmaster, with matching white headstock. Mel Bergman of the Phantom Surfers on a sunburst
p bass( only down side was he played thru a Hartke aluminum speaker bass cab- but it sounded good, so go figure )
Pete Curry of LSJ's and Halibuts on a old school Keyboard, not sure if it was Fender, but it sounded like the electronic piano on Pipeline, and he changed the sounds for different songs. Chris Sprage(aka Sugarballs)
on Drums. there were 4 blonde Showmans on stage with Reverb tanks.
I think 3 brownface, and one Blackface.
I cant for the life of me remember the other song, besides k-39, that the back up band played, but it ripped. Help me somebody???
When all the old school surf guys came up to play their songs, they plugged into a tank, and showman. and didn't have any effects.
So instead of being let down like I usually am, we were all treated to the most surfiest versions of these guys songs, I have heard in along time.
It was really good to hear Jim Masoner play with Reverb instead of all
the delays and other effects he usually uses lately. still kinda leggato
instead of stacatto, but way better without all the effects.
Tim Fitzpatrick also got up to play with Jim, on Surf Rider on Drums.
Bob Spikards son got up with him and Brian Carmen to play pipline on Keyboards. Man Brian was really rippin, on the drippin part of that, almost playing as hard and loud as DD would.
It was pretty cool to hear Jim Fuller play the Lead on Wipeout, as usually hes just stummin acoustic when I see him play with the Surfaris.
His sound was pretty Trad, but he had a new Strat, with a Floyd rose tremelo.
Willy Glover is a great, fun guy to talk to. But he had a few Bum notes on Penetration,and some people said he wasn't playing it in the right area on the neck. H seems much happier playing his so so
Version of Johnny B. Goode.
No offense to Rich, But I thought that the solo version of Nokie playing Tears in Heaven was very so so in playing and lacked emotion and feeling, had many bum notes, and was too slow. The other songs that Nokie played with the back up line up were pretty good. But Dry as a bone to my dismay, but that is the Ventures sound. Dimonhead was excellent. Deke and Mel switched from Fenders to Mosrites for this part of the set. Nokie had that off white Mosrite nock off he's been playing the past few years. Looks beautiful , but too smooth, does not sound like a Mosrite, and this is not to meant to be rude, so Ventures fans, get off my back, im just reporting here. If Nokie was really happy to be playing, it was news to me, as he had that 1000 yard stare. Just seemed to be somewhere else in his mind. Not that he was not wanting to be there. But defiently not rocking and smileing from ear to ear like the surf guys were.
It was another great night of killer pickin as always.
Deke is the man when it comes to getting all these old guy together.
anybody that goes to Namm really should attend this also.

Also in the house was Chris and his other guitarist from Colorados Aquasonics. he wanted to give me one of their cds, but I insisted to pay him for it. I know that Rick Escobar was in town for the Namm show, but he called and said he wasn't sure he was gonna be able to make it, as he is the info guy for the company he works for, and probably had to schmooze all night long pluggin their stuff they were there sellin.
Allen(Bass) and Mac( guitar) of Outterwave, Dave Arnson of the Insects,
who also sat in on the Pipeline Jam at the end, but is pretty short, So Rich probably didn't see him hiding in the back.
Abdel( the guy that does the solo Shadows type stuff videos)Tom of the Neptunes from Fresno. Rich(photo guy-&his wife Marilyn),Kristena &Rudy,
I think I saw Steve( Guitarist of the Vindicators)(but after I trashed him so hard on the old locked thread, he will probably never talk to me now Danny Amis of the LSJ's, and I'm sure there was a few more, but Thats all i can think of now. But the place was pretty full, about 120 or so.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

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Minor Nit, BTD: Isn't Chris Sprague's nickname "Sugar Bowl"? Not "Sugar Balls"...

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Yeah Tena... and only 9 years old!!!!

Seriously, that guy is awesome!

THe NEpTuNeS

I got to go this show too. We flew in on Saturday afternoon from Denver. here's a few quick thoughts -

First - I got to meet BTD and Tiki Tena, and Tom from the Neptunes which was very cool. All are super friendly, and helped me meet a ton of local players and people. BTD introduced me to several legends. He also insisted he pay me for a cd, which I'm sure he regrets now. Tena also bought a cd, and I spent all the money on $5 beers for Mark and me, the other A-Sonics guitar player that came.

I got to meet ALL of the legends of surf. Paul Johnson, Eddie Bertrand, Tim Fitzpatrick, Jim Massoner, Jim Fuller, Nokie Edwards, Bob Spickard, Brian Carmen, Willy Glover, David Arnson, Danny Amis, Pete Curry and several others that escape me for the moment. All were extremely gracious and friendly. I got all of them to sign a guitar body for me, (I'll post pics when I get it re-assembled.)

I had real conversations with several of my favorite players from the 60's. Paul Johnson was great to talk to. He told me about whats going on lately, and was super nice and cool to talk with. Bob Spickard was very nice too. we talked about how The Chantays traveled back in the 60's, and where the played. He talked about when they recorded Pipeline, and shared a bunch of info that was cool to hear about. Tim Fitzpatrick took me over to meet Jim Massoner, who I'm sure I wouldn't have recognised without his help. Danny amis didn't want his picture takedn without his Los straits mask on (which I thought was funny!) Eddie Bertrand was quiet, but nice.

One thing that struck me was how much of a surf community there is in S. California. Everyone there was very supportive to all the other bands. The one overriding oppinion is that the band "Outerwave" is the new hot trad band - I heard that from everybody.

I enjoyed all the music acts. the only one that didn't do it for me was the "Mistress of shred." Deke and his band played great - I was sorry his portion was as short as it was. Crazy Joe is a great great player. The Eddie Cochran guy was fantastic - sounded just like him.

my favorite part of the night was the Surf portion at the end. I knew as soon as I saw Deke and the crew getting out the Showman amps and tanks that this was going to be a chance in a lifetime. Deke and his band warmed up with a couple for the sound check, and they were Awesome! Then each guy came on and played. Everybody had some real surf tone going, and it was a thrill to see all of them play. The crowd loved it too. Seeing eddie Bertrand play a jag through a tanked showman was cool - sounded a lot like the 60's Eddie and the Showmen.

Coolest texperience I've had in a long time. and this was just the first day - I'll review the rest of the trip in another thread.

Chris

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