Came upon this wonderful review of my May 7th SURF-ROCK SHINDIG at OTTO's!

http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/tsunami/

Here is the actual copy from the write-up:

"A Tsunami of Sound Hits Manhattan"

"Saturday night was Unsteady Freddie’s monthly surf music show at Otto’s. Surf rock isn’t as oldschool as a lot of people think it is since it’s more popular now than it was fifty years ago when groups like the Ventures and the Bel-Airs were just getting off the ground. But Unsteady Freddie’s night is. If you wish New York was the place it was before there was a plastic-and-sheetrock “luxury” condo project sprouting on every ghetto block, if you want to get away from the doucheoisie, Otto’s is the place the first Saturday of every month. This month’s show opened with four-piece instrumental band Tsunami of Sound. In their too-brief 45 minutes onstage, they jangled and clanged through a tight mix of originals and covers. Surf music is fun but the best stuff can also be totally noir, and this band proved they’re not afraid of the dark side. The most interesting song of the night shifted uneasily between major and minor chords over the swaying, distant rumble of Rick Sanger’s drums: he didn’t look like he was working that hard, but the noise from the kit said otherwise. Strat player Dave Esposito has a classic surf sound, nonchalantly firing off one reverb-drenched riff after another, taking one bridge to a crazed crescendo with a flurry of furious tremolo-picking. Bob Damiano, who played both Strat and keys – sometimes both in the same song – has a more biting, bluesy lead guitar style. If Esposito is the stalker in the band, Damiano is the slasher. Bassist Jamie Huggins played simple, propulsive lines, sometimes sailing way up the scale to drive a chorus home.

Another cool thing about this band is that they put their own spin on the cover songs. Was that a janglerock version of Spudnik? If so, it was a long way from the primitive space-rock of the original and it was also a lot more interesting. Their version of Pipeline was matter-of-fact, midtempo and full of neat original riffs. Other bands like to rip through Diamond Head even faster than the Ventures did it, but these guys slowed it down and let the ominousness of the rising wave at the end of the verse build to a genuine menace. From there they segued into a burning, sunbaked version of Lee Hazlewood’s Baja before returning to the originals. Let’s hope the maestro of unsteadiness brings them back.

There were other good bands scheduled for later, as usual - the Tarantinos NYC, who never cease to amaze with how eclectic they are, were on at 11 - but we’ve covered them before, and they manage to get themselves on a gazillion good bills all over town."

I am overwhelmed b/c Lucid Culture, who have covered my events in the past, really seems to understand me, what I've set out to do and achieved, and of course "getting it" in an overall sense.

Thx to Tsunami of Sound for forwarding me the URL

UNSTEADY FREDDIE

http://www.facebook.com/unsteady.freddie

Just locked down the SURF-ROCK SHINDIG at OTTO'S SHRUNKEN HEAD for October 1, 2011. It's an ALL-NESMA line-up (NESMA = North East Surf Music Alliance; http://www.nesmasurf.org)

UNSTEADY FREDDIE

p.s. do you think the colors are loud enough?

http://www.facebook.com/unsteady.freddie

Here are some pictures from my JUNE 4 2011 Shindig.

Bands:

THE CLAMS
REVERB GALAXY
MATT RAE TRIO
THE OCTOMEN

and the ALL SYSTEMS GO-GO DANCERS

dig it

UNSTEADY FREDDIE

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unsteadyfreddie/sets/72157627148324614/

http://www.facebook.com/unsteady.freddie

every first Saturday of the month

so AUGUST 6th would be next

YES -- 21+ (but I can make special arrangements where needed)

UNSTEADY FREDDIE

http://www.facebook.com/unsteady.freddie

Last edited: Jul 09, 2011 06:07:59

SOME PICTURES FROM MY JULY 2 2011 SURF-ROCK SHINDIG

FEATURING:

THE ACOUSTIC SURF TONES
THE SUPERTONES
MR. ACTION & THE BOSS GUITARS
THEE SWANK BASTARDS + SZANDORA

UNSTEADY FREDDIE

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unsteadyfreddie/sets/72157627284497340/

PICTURES ARE ALSO INCLUDED FROM FRANK WOOD'S "WIND DOWN SUNDAYS" ON JULY 3 2011 FEATURING THEE SWANK BASTARDS AND SZANDORA

http://www.facebook.com/unsteady.freddie

getting word THE MIGHTY SURF LORDS are bailing on their trip East

what a shame!!!!

oh well, I will re-do the poster, and it will be a 4 band Shindig on September 3rd 2011 instead of 5

rock n roll - that's show biz!!

UNSTEADY FREDDIE

http://www.facebook.com/unsteady.freddie

Freddy,
some day I will make it over there to NY to go to one of these shows.

The line-up for the DECEMBER 3 2011 SURF-ROCK SHINDIG is now 100% confirmed!!

FACEBOOK EVENT direct link:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242473252464433

All info is on the poster:

should be a GREAT SHINDIG!!

Thx everyone

UNSTEADY FREDDIE

http://www.facebook.com/unsteady.freddie

I have a line-up change for my OCTOBER 1 2011 SURF-ROCK SHINDIG

a great band called RUMBLEFOOT is replacing TSUNAMI of SOUND who had to cancel

a new poster has been created

UNSTEADY FREDDIE

http://www.facebook.com/unsteady.freddie

NOVEMBER is NOT a "SURF-ROCK SHINDIG"

It is an UNSTEADY/WOOD "BEACH BALL" (there is a separate thread for the BEACH BALL series: http://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/5913/ )

But here is the poster for November 5th:

UNSTEADY FREDDIE

http://www.facebook.com/unsteady.freddie