Thank You For one Hellll of a Time!!!

It Was just Tooo Much!

Guitars and reverb Everywhere!

Thanks
HapHazzard from the Neptunes

HB, is that THE strat you were telling me about?

THe NEpTuNeS

surfneptune
HB, is that THE strat you were telling me a about?

Yes it is! 57 American vintage reissue & 57 Chevy wagon.

In action being played by John Benton of The Lively Ones with The Aquasonics.

The exotic sounding Glasgow Tiki Shakers. It's almost a crime to sound this good!

Billy McGlynn - Nothing but ear pleasing music out of his guitar.

somebody needs to get a room,

boy the booze was flowing at my BBQ and then at the Doll Hut courtesy
of Tony of Outterwave, I thinhk he bougt about 10 pitchers of Newcastel for all of us. Thanks Tony.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Wow thanks Tony!

Here are some shots from the road

WHen we pulled over to let the drummer out to run around in a field
in Bakersfield we heard a loud rapping... not like YO! rapping... but an evil clanking kind of rap, it would quiet to a whine, then sound like hell.
It sounded BAD, we found a NAPA auto parts, found our problem,
a belt guide that was easy to get to.
This is Jay holding a tensioner pulley back.

This WAS a sealed bearing, when the part came off the unit literally
fell apart in Jim's hands.

Then Jay pulled over on the "Vine" to put on a new radiator cap because
the van was running a tad warm.

we made it.... Jay looks like he had a long day.

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Now that, Gentlemen, is my kind of posting........Absolutely marvelous!..............eddie gives it all thumbs up (and he's pretty much all thumbs)

Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?

This show was crazy!

remember Tony's pics of the Doll Hut a while back? yeah, it's that small. He showed the whole place in those photos. It's cool inside, and everyone there was into surf. I had several PBR's throughout the night. and then the music started....

Glasgow Tiki Shakers were really great - I was impressed, as was everyone else.

Outerwave left me speechless! I'd been hearing about how great they are from HBKahuna and BTD, but they were REALLY GREAT! Trad to a "T" awesome sound, great tunes -

I only got to hear a couple of Neptunes songs, but they were great too. I saw them on Sunday as well, and I'll talk more about them in that thread.

The Aquasonics played entirely too loud - something I am truly sorry about -
BeatmanTony is a super guy - very nice. thanks for setting the show up for everyone. We all had a great time!

Thanks to everyone that came out for it too!

Chris

"You can't tell where you're going if you don't know where you've been"

Thanks again for Tony to hook up this gig.
I figured if the Neptunes and Aquasonics were coming from outta town, to play at the Pier for free. it would be nice if we could have a gig for them to make a little money. not enough to pay for all expenses, but I'm sure, and hope, what they got at the Doll Hut helped in some way.
So I picked up the Phone and asked Tony(THE MAN) if he could pull something together for them, he said let him work on it. Then he called me back and said, its booked at the Doll Hut, which is one of my fave places for shows, because I saw my first and many other surf shows there over the years, but not many lately, and its very close to me, Usually I have to drive 5 to 50 miles for shows. Then he added that the Glasgow tiki shakers were added to the bill. I about wigged out.
So in anticipation of the show I decided to have a BBQ for some of my real close surf crowd friends and the bands that were playing that night.
I invited 50 to 60. about 20 25 showed up. But it was a great BBQ, everybody left stuffed and some really drunk, JP and Marty

I got from my place to the Doll hut in 3 minutes, gotta love it.
and didnt miss a minute of the show.
as stated in other reviews everybody was on fire.
I was totally blown away by the new Neptunes sound. even though they are a 5 piece now, with 2 guitars and sax. its not trad to a T like the Eliminators, (thank god). They still have a very cutting edge sound, and the sax player just rips, very jazzy, and great licks.

I had got the Cd of the Aquasonics, from Chris, when he was out here for the Deke Dickerson Guitar Geek Fest. He told me it wasnt that good as it was with old members and not recorded well. I thought it was really good, kinda tame but nowhere as near as what he poo pooed it as.
so I knew that of course they would be better now with 2 better members, and most bands are better live anyways. Plus I had seen some youtube vids. wow wow wow. was I right, and then some.
Damn these guys smoked the place. when they first started Chris volume was a bit low, so I asked him to turn up. I and he and some others think he went a tad too far But I think it was not bad at all. I love loud ripping surf music, damn it sounded sweet to hear Reverbed surf tunes blasting the Doll hut walls again.

hope to see the Neptunes and Aquasonics down here again next year.
and for many more shows at the Doll Hut with the new owner in charge.

thanks again bands, and to Tony. I owe ya man,
Jeff(bigtikidude)
p.s. then there was 6 bands at the HB pier the next day. oh man

this is what weekends in So. Cal are all about.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Hey did anybody get a shot of my new PLasma amp in action at the doll hut?

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