ChadShivers
Joined: Sep 07, 2010
Posts: 560
Atlanta
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 08:18 AM
Hello (y')all,
I'm trying to compile a list of Southern surf/instro groups for the Stomp and podcast (plus I think it'd be worthwhile to have), preferably with recordings. Please include city/state of origin if known. Links and non-surf bands with instrumentals welcome.
Here's what I have so far:
3 Balls of Fire (TX)
3Ds (AL)
3rd Wave (VA)
Apache '65 (TX)
Aqualads (NC)
Arrows Out (NC)
Atomic Mosquitos (DC)
Austin Transit Authority (TX)
Baffles (TX)
Bat City Surfers (TX)
Beech Benders (KY)
Belmont Playboys (NC, instrumentals: Stringbuster, Chappara, Run Chicken Run, Twister, Gatorbait, Kontantinopel, Wild One, Caravanl)
Big Guitars from Texas (TX)
Biller and Horton (TX)
Biller and Wakefield (TX)
Bills (LA)
B-52’s - Follow Your Bliss (GA)
Bill Justis - Raunchy (TN)
Blacktop Rockets (GA, instrumentals: Steamroller, Knoxville Slim)
Blood Red River (NC)
Blood Urchin (LA)
Blue Stingrays (FL?)
Bobby Fuller (TX, instrumentals: Our Favorite Martian, Wolfman, Thunder Reef, KRLA Top Eliminator, The Lonely Dragster)
Bongo King (FL)
Booker T and the MGs (TN)
Boss Jaguars (TX)
Brad Paisley (TN, instrumentals: The Nervous Breakdown, Munster Rag, Time Warp, Throttleneck, Turf’s Up, Departure, Cluster Pluck)
Broken Spokes
Buddy and the Squids (MS)
Carnations (KY, Red Wing, Scorpion)
Carvers (NC)
Chet Atkins (TN)
Cigar Store Indians - (GA) El Baile De La Cobra
Crazy Aces (TN)
Crowkeepers (FL)
Cutback (FL)
Daddy A Go-go (GA)
Daikaiju (AL)
Dead Barons (TX)
Delusionaires (FL)
Del-Vipers (TX)
Dexter Romweber (NC, instrumentals: Nephretite, Nabonga, Guybo, Bombora, Tombstone Boogie, The Curse of Little Bastard, Do The Lurd, Witch Doctor, Walkin’ With The Scary Hillbilly Monsters)
Dexter Romweber & the New Romans (insturmentals: Harlem Nocturne, Night Tide, Stampede)
Diamondheads (MD)
Doctor A-Go-Go (LA)
Doke Ohms (TN)
Dom Casual (NC)
Don Leady (TX)
Eddie Angel (TN)
El Capitan (GA)
El Fossil (GA)
Family Dollar Pharaohs (NC)
Famous Monsters (LA)
Fat Man and Team Fat (TX)
Fez?
Fiend Without A Face (GA)
Flap (GA)
Flat Duo Jets (NC, instrumentals: Harlem Nocturne, Wild Trip, Stalkin’, Rawhide, Tidalwave, Mr. Guitar, Torquay, Golden Strings, Tell Django, Cobra, Southern Drums, Red Tango, Old Trestle Song, 2,000 lb. Bee, Ace of Spades, John Law, Blue Yonder, Sing Sing Sing, John Law Rides Again, )
Gallows Drifters (TX)
Gemini 13 (GA)
Gold Dust Lounge (FL)
Goldbloom (TX)
Gory Details (TX, instrumentals)
Gravitron (SC)
Gutter Queens (FL)
High Fidelics (AL)
Hillbilly Frankenstein (GA, instrumentals: Tempo Tantrum)
Hodaddys (FL)
Honkeys (MO)
Hula Hounds (GA)
Impala (TN)
Intoxicators (FL)
Jeffrey Bützer/Claire Lodge/Compartmentalizationalists (GA)
Johnny and the Shamen (AL)
Kill Baby Kill (AL)
Killer Filler (NC)
King Pelican (TX)
Krektones (NC)
Legend of the Seagullmen (FL)
Link Wray (NC)
Los Straitjackets (TN)
Los Superavengers (TX)
Love Tractor (GA)
Machete Western (TX)
Mag Seven (TX)
Man From Ravcon (NC)
Man or Astroman (AL/GA)
Mariners (TN)
Martian Denny Orchestra (TN)
Meteor Men/Meteor IV (NC)
MonsterVision (TX)
Monterreys (NC)
MOONBASE (GA)
Moto-litas (GA, instrumentals?)
Mutations (TN)
Mystery Men (GA)
Nautiloids (DC)
Necronomikids (AL)
Nematoads (TX)
Neptones (TX)
Noseriders (NC)
Nova Rays (FL)
Original Shake Charmers (AL)
Out of Limits (NC)
Pangia (TX)
Panasonics (TN)
Penetrators (AL/GA)
Phantom 5ive (TN)
Phantom Operators (TN)
Phatlynx (NC)
Poi Pounders (TX)
Prosthetics (FL)
Pylon - Weather Radio (GA)
Ramparts (LA)
Ramrods (AL)
Really Rottens (TX)
Reekers (DC)
R.E.M. - White Tornado (GA)
Rondo Hatton (LA)
Royal Batfangs (KY)
Royal Pendletons - Boo's Crash (LA)
Sandblasters (TX/TN)
Servotron (GA, instrumentals: Theme For an Ultimate and Inevitable Victory, To Be Listed)
Sexwax (GA)
Shakin' Apostles - (TX) Ride Through Wild Country
Shark Quest (NC)
Shoot The Pier (FL)
Sinders (TN, Sinner)
Sir Finks (TX)
Slackmates
Soda Pop Spies (TX)
Sonoramic Commandos (GA)
Southern Culture on the Skids (NC, instrumentals: For Lovers Only, Fatman’s Twist, Sheik’s Walk, Link’s Lung, Run Chicken Run, Kudzu Limbo, Walleyed, Tunafish Every Day, Jack The Ripper, Mudbuggy, Wig-out, Rumors of Surf, Skullbucket, Camel Walk, Make Mayan a Hawaiian, Galley Slave, Meximelt, Scratch My Back, Girlfight, El Mysterioso, Wheels, Dance For Me, Deja Varoom, Strangest Ways, Theme from “The Cheaters”, The Wet Spot, The Sweet Spot, Slinky Spring Milt, Swamp Thang, She’s My Witch, Sinister Purpose, The Creeper)
Spoils (TX)
Spring Break Shark Attack (LA)
Squares (GA)
Squid Vicious (TX)
St. John and the Cardinals (GA)
Steve Wariner (TN)
Straight 8’s (NC, instrumentals: F-Hole, Interlude, El Mirage, Summer Set, Ground Zero, Ironsides, Redskin, Train Wreck, Ann Bowman)
String-a-longs (TX)
Strychnines (FL)
Surfin' Tones (FL)
Surge (GA)
Tailgators (TX, instrumentals: Tico Tico, Deuces Wild)
Teisco Del Rey (TX)
Tempos - (AL) Heartbeat
Thunderchiefs (TX)
Tidal Wave (FL)
Turks (KY)
Unnaturals (LA)
Wax Animals (TX)
Webb Wilder (MS, instrumentals: Sputnik, Goldfinger, Horror Hayride, Webb’s Theme, Scattergun (instrumental), Cactus Planet, Rough Rider)
Woggles (instrumentals: Zombie Stomp, Love Theme From Return To Blood Beach, Throttlehead, Takamatsu Twist, The Kingdom of Nye)
X-rays (GA)
X-rayons (NC)
Zaratans (AL)
— The Squares - 1995-2002
The Mystery Men? - 2012-
MOONBASE - 2012-2017
The KBK - 2017-2022
The Frigidaires 2021-
Southern Surf Stomp!
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bigtikidude
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 25727
Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 09:22 AM
That list is awesome, who knew there were so many instro bands from down south.
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
Last edited: Dec 03, 2014 09:23:56
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CrazyAces
Joined: Jul 31, 2012
Posts: 4054
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 09:45 AM
Here's a few off the top of my head:
The Martian Denny Orchestra, Nashville, TN. - http://www.sundazed.com/shop/artists.php?artistID=455
The Doke Ohms, Nashville, TN. - http://www.reverbnation.com/thedokeohms
If you're going to include Chet you need to include Steve Wariner, Nashville, TN. - one of only 5 C.G.P.'s that Chet personally anointed.
Check out "My Tribute To Chet Atkins" or "Guitar Laboratory"
http://vimeo.com/21843414
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Richard
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 1683
Georgia
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 11:19 AM
The Blue Stingrays are definitely from Gainesville, FL.
Gravitron (sadly over) is actually from SC if I'm not mistaken.
— The Mystery Men?
El Capitan and The Reluctant Sadists
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CrazyAces
Joined: Jul 31, 2012
Posts: 4054
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 11:33 AM
Richard wrote:
The Blue Stingrays are definitely from Gainesville, FL.
Gravitron (sadly over) is actually from SC if I'm not mistaken.
But the Blue Stingrays live in California and the album was recored there, right?
I know the members are originally from Gainesville but never made this music there as The Blue Stingrays...........??
Just wondering
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Richard
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 1683
Georgia
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 12:06 PM
CrazyAces wrote:
Richard wrote:
The Blue Stingrays are definitely from Gainesville, FL.
Gravitron (sadly over) is actually from SC if I'm not mistaken.
But the Blue Stingrays live in California and the album was recored there, right?
I know the members are originally from Gainesville but never made this music there as The Blue Stingrays...........??
Just wondering
Jeff, true...I guess maybe it would be more accurate to classify them as a CA band?
— The Mystery Men?
El Capitan and The Reluctant Sadists
SSS Agent #31
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killbabykill34
Joined: Apr 03, 2010
Posts: 3201
Jacksonville, AL
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 01:05 PM
ChadShivers wrote:
Hello (y')all,
I'm trying to compile a list of Southern surf/instro groups for the Stomp and podcast (plus I think it'd be worthwhile to have), preferably with recordings. Please include city/state of origin if known. Links and non-surf bands with instrumentals welcome.
Here's what I have so far:
3 Balls of Fire (TX)
Apache '65 (TX)
Aqualads (NC)
Arrows Out (NC)
Atomic Mosquitos (DC)
Austin Transit Authority (TX)
Baffles (TX)
Bat City Surfers (TX)
Beech Benders (KY)
Belmont Playboys (NC, instrumentals: Stringbuster, Chappara, Run Chicken Run, Twister, Gatorbait, Kontantinopel, Wild One, Caravanl)
Big Guitars from Texas (TX)
Biller and Horton (TX)
Biller and Wakefield (TX)
Bills (LA)
B-52’s - Follow Your Bliss (GA)
Bill Justis - Raunchy (TN)
Blacktop Rockets (GA, instrumentals: Steamroller, Knoxville Slim)
Blood Red River (NC)
Blue Stingrays (FL?)
Bobby Fuller (TX, instrumentals: Our Favorite Martian, Wolfman, Thunder Reef, KRLA Top Eliminator, The Lonely Dragster)
Bongo King (FL)
Booker T and the MGs (TN)
Boss Jaguars (TX)
Brad Paisley (TN, instrumentals: The Nervous Breakdown, Munster Rag, Time Warp, Throttleneck, Turf’s Up, Departure, Cluster Pluck)
Broken Spokes
Carnations (KY, Red Wing, Scorpion)
Chet Atkins (TN)
Cigar Store Indians - (GA) El Baile De La Cobra
Crazy Aces (TN)
Crowkeepers (FL)
Cutback (FL)
Daddy A Go-go (GA)
Daikaiju (AL)
Dead Barons (TX)
Delusionaires (FL)
Del-Vipers (TX)
Dexter Romweber (NC, instrumentals: Nephretite, Nabonga, Guybo, Bombora, Tombstone Boogie, The Curse of Little Bastard, Do The Lurd, Witch Doctor, Walkin’ With The Scary Hillbilly Monsters)
Dexter Romweber & the New Romans (insturmentals: Harlem Nocturne, Night Tide, Stampede)
Diamondheads (MD)
Dom Casual (NC)
Don Leady (TX)
Eddie Angel (TN)
El Capitan (GA)
El Fossil (GA)
Family Dollar Pharaohs (NC)
Famous Monsters (LA)
Fat Man and Team Fat (TX)
Fez?
Fiend Without A Face (GA)
Flap (GA)
Flat Duo Jets (NC, instrumentals: Harlem Nocturne, Wild Trip, Stalkin’, Rawhide, Tidalwave, Mr. Guitar, Torquay, Golden Strings, Tell Django, Cobra, Southern Drums, Red Tango, Old Trestle Song, 2,000 lb. Bee, Ace of Spades, John Law, Blue Yonder, Sing Sing Sing, John Law Rides Again, )
Gallows Drifters (TX)
Gemini 13 (GA)
Gold Dust Lounge (FL)
Gory Details (TX, instrumentals)
Gravitron (NC)
Gutter Queens (FL)
High Fidelics (AL)
Hillbilly Frankenstein (GA, instrumentals: Tempo Tantrum)
Hodaddys (FL)
Honkeys (MO)
Hula Hounds (GA)
Impala (TN)
Intoxicators (FL)
Jeffrey Bützer/Claire Lodge/Compartmentalizationalists (GA)
Johnny and the Shamen (LA)
Kill Baby Kill (AL)
Killer Filler (NC)
King Pelican (TX)
Krektones (NC)
Legend of the Seagullmen (FL)
Link Wray (NC)
Los Straitjackets (TN)
Los Superavengers (TX)
Love Tractor (GA)
Mag Seven (TX)
Man From Ravcon (NC)
Man or Astroman (AL/GA)
Mariners (TN)
Meteor Men/Meteor IV (NC)
Monterreys (NC)
MOONBASE (GA)
Moto-litas (GA, instrumentals?)
Mutations (TN)
Mystery Men (GA)
Nautiloids (DC)
Necronomikids (AL)
Nematoads (TX)
Neptones (TX)
Noseriders (NC)
Nova Rays (FL)
Original Shake Charmers (AL)
Out of Limits (NC)
Panasonics (TN)
Penetrators (AL/GA)
Phantom 5ive (TN)
Prosthetics (FL)
Pylon - Weather Radio (GA)
Ramparts (LA)
Ramrods (AL)
Reekers (DC)
R.E.M. - White Tornado (GA)
Royal Pendletons - Boo's Crash (LA)
Sandblasters (TX/TN)
Servotron (GA, instrumentals: Theme For an Ultimate and Inevitable Victory, To Be Listed)
Sexwax (GA)
Shakin' Apostles - (TX) Ride Through Wild Country
Shark Quest (NC)
Shoot The Pier (FL)
Sinders (TN, Sinner)
Sir Finks (TX)
Slackmates
Soda Pop Spies (TX)
Sonoramic Commandos (GA)
Southern Culture on the Skids (NC, instrumentals: For Lovers Only, Fatman’s Twist, Sheik’s Walk, Link’s Lung, Run Chicken Run, Kudzu Limbo, Walleyed, Tunafish Every Day, Jack The Ripper, Mudbuggy, Wig-out, Rumors of Surf, Skullbucket, Camel Walk, Make Mayan a Hawaiian, Galley Slave, Meximelt, Scratch My Back, Girlfight, El Mysterioso, Wheels, Dance For Me, Deja Varoom, Strangest Ways, Theme from “The Cheaters”, The Wet Spot, The Sweet Spot, Slinky Spring Milt, Swamp Thang, She’s My Witch, Sinister Purpose, The Creeper)
Spoils (TX)
Squares (GA)
Squid Vicious (TX)
St. John and the Cardinals (GA)
Straight 8’s (NC, instrumentals: F-Hole, Interlude, El Mirage, Summer Set, Ground Zero, Ironsides, Redskin, Train Wreck, Ann Bowman)
String-a-longs (TX)
Strychnines (FL)
Surfin' Tones (FL)
Surge (GA)
Tailgators (TX, instrumentals: Tico Tico, Deuces Wild)
Teisco Del Rey (TX)
Tempos - (AL) Heartbeat
Tidal Wave (FL)
Turks (KY)
Unusuals (LA)
Webb Wilder (MS, instrumentals: Sputnik, Goldfinger, Horror Hayride, Webb’s Theme, Scattergun (instrumental), Cactus Planet, Rough Rider)
Woggles (instrumentals: Zombie Stomp, Love Theme From Return To Blood Beach, Throttlehead, Takamatsu Twist, The Kingdom of Nye)
X-rays (GA)
X-rayons (NC)
Zaratans (AL)
HEMATOVORE (AL)
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www.thekbk.com
http://www.deepeddy.net/artists/thekbk/
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ElMonstroPorFavor
Joined: Sep 01, 2006
Posts: 2758
New Orleans, LA
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 03:59 PM
Louisiana:
Unnaturals (I think that's what you mean instead of Unusuals) (active)
The Bills (active)
Rondo Hatton (active)
Spring Break Shark Attack (active)
Doctor A-Go-Go
Blood Urchin (active)
I think you accidentally said LA instead of AL for Jonny and the Shamen
— Storm Surge of Reverb: Surf & Instro Radio
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ElMonstroPorFavor
Joined: Sep 01, 2006
Posts: 2758
New Orleans, LA
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 04:00 PM
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Richard
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 1683
Georgia
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 04:40 PM
Spring Break Shark Attack is an awesome band name.
— The Mystery Men?
El Capitan and The Reluctant Sadists
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killbabykill34
Joined: Apr 03, 2010
Posts: 3201
Jacksonville, AL
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 04:44 PM
There is certainly a Southern Surf Renaissance happening. I have touted it for some time. But I wonder if many that live elsewhere thought it was hyperbole? What is most amazing about this list is just how many are currently active.
— THE KBK ... This is the last known signal. We offer Sanctuary.
www.thekbk.com
http://www.deepeddy.net/artists/thekbk/
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Noel
Joined: Mar 15, 2011
Posts: 8528
Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 05:22 PM
killbabykill34 wrote:
There is certainly a Southern Surf Renaissance happening. I have touted it for some time. But I wonder if many that live elsewhere thought it was hyperbole? What is most amazing about this list is just how many are currently active.
The sheer scope of active Southern Surf bands is staggering. I knew there are an impressive number, but I didn't know there are this many.
— This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.
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Las_Barracudas
Joined: Apr 24, 2011
Posts: 1087
Surf City, NC
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 06:10 PM
May want to also consider:
The Carvers - (Wilmington, NC)
The Thunderchiefs - (TX)
— METEOR IV on reverbnation
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ElMonstroPorFavor
Joined: Sep 01, 2006
Posts: 2758
New Orleans, LA
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 06:18 PM
killbabykill34 wrote:
There is certainly a Southern Surf Renaissance happening. I have touted it for some time. But I wonder if many that live elsewhere thought it was hyperbole? What is most amazing about this list is just how many are currently active.
I agree, though if you want to see an unimpressive number try to make a list of southern surf groups in the 60s
— Storm Surge of Reverb: Surf & Instro Radio
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ChadShivers
Joined: Sep 07, 2010
Posts: 560
Atlanta
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Posted on Dec 03 2014 11:10 PM
Thanks everyone for the additions/corrections so far, keep 'em coming!
Noah, does Hematovore have any surfy material? When I saw them they just sounded like instrumental Maiden, which is not at all a bad thing by any means.
Hunter, you're the man. I was hoping you'd chime in on this thread.
— The Squares - 1995-2002
The Mystery Men? - 2012-
MOONBASE - 2012-2017
The KBK - 2017-2022
The Frigidaires 2021-
Southern Surf Stomp!
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stratdancer
Joined: Dec 11, 2013
Posts: 2537
Akron, Ohio
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Posted on Dec 04 2014 04:24 AM
Who knew the bible belt could put out such rad surf! I did live in the Myrtle Beach area from 81-84 so The Kahuna Kings has some tentacles but I was listening to a lot of Priest, Maiden and other British new wave metal back then.
— The Kahuna Kings
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kahuna-Kings/459752090818447
https://thekahunakings.bandcamp.com/releases
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mom_surfing
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 5324
the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Dec 04 2014 05:51 AM
i saw a two man band open for southern culture on the skids halloween night called 'deadly lo-fi'. they are from NC. they do some instros but mostly songs. they're interesting, very different, loud and very lo-fi. i loved them. one of them is/was a member of a surf band, the 'noseriders' i think.
— www.surfintheeye.com
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Las_Barracudas
Joined: Apr 24, 2011
Posts: 1087
Surf City, NC
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Posted on Dec 04 2014 05:54 AM
mom_surfing wrote:
i saw a two man band open for southern culture on the skids halloween night called 'deadly lo-fi'. they are from NC. they do some instros but mostly songs. they're interesting, very different, loud and very lo-fi. i loved them. one of them is/was a member of a surf band, the 'noseriders' i think.
Correct, and also a present member of The Carvers.
— METEOR IV on reverbnation
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ChadShivers
Joined: Sep 07, 2010
Posts: 560
Atlanta
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Posted on Dec 04 2014 07:15 AM
stratdancer, did the Kahuna Kings make any recordings while in Myrtle Beach?
— The Squares - 1995-2002
The Mystery Men? - 2012-
MOONBASE - 2012-2017
The KBK - 2017-2022
The Frigidaires 2021-
Southern Surf Stomp!
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stratdancer
Joined: Dec 11, 2013
Posts: 2537
Akron, Ohio
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Posted on Dec 04 2014 07:20 AM
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