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GET READY TO RUMBLE! 13 Guitar Rumble to Honor Link Wray

Save the date, note your calendar, check flight and train schedules, mark your hand but don't miss the 13 GUITAR RUMBLE: THE LINK WRAY TRIBUTE at the REDWOOD BAR & GRILL Downtown Los Angeles, on Friday, November 19 at 9PM 316 W. 2nd St.

13 GUITAR RUMBLE honors the late, great guitarist LINK WRAY, the man who invented the power chord.  Wray's notable songs include "Ace of Spades", "Jack the Ripper", and his banned from radio/signature reverb classic, "Rumble".  Wray toured relentlessly for over five decades until just weeks before his death in November 2005.  Originally conceived in 2006 by Burnin' Mike Vernon of Austin, Texas' 3 Balls of Fire, the show features different combination's of L.A. guitarists playing the Wray catalog culminating with thirteen guitarists on stage playing “Rumble” at the same time!!

Performing in memory of Wray will be:

Here is the current schedule for the SurfGuitar101.com 2010 Convention at The Starting Gate in Los Alamitos on Saturday, August 7th. To keep up with changes, please monitor this forum thread.

• 10am The SG101 Members jam
• 11am A "60's Legends of Surf" jam
• Noon Men of Mystery
• 1pm The Surfside IV
• 2pm The Wadadli Riders
• 3pm The Space Rangers
• 4pm The Atomic Mosquitos
• 5pm The Insect Surfers
• 6pm Frankie and the Pool Boys
• 7pm Space Cossacks

The cost is $20.

Instromania is Australian instrumental music at its best

The lineup this time is Martin Cilia - a member of legendary Australian surf band "The Atlantics" and one of Australia's best known surf guitarists and Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum is a high-energy, surf-style trio dedicated to reverb drenched surf/gypsy/Tarantino guitar. Guaranteed to be LSD* free. Also, be prepared for a secret surprise support act.

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Friday 20th August - St Kilda RSL (St Kilda Army/Navy)
88 Acland St, St Kilda
8pm - 11pm

Saturday 21st August - The Studio
37 Geringhap St, Geelong
8pm - 11pm

Sunday 22nd August - 303
303 High St, Northcote
3pm - 7pm

More info: http://www.instromania.com.au
Tickets available from Moshtix http://www.moshtix.com.au

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To help prepare for the weekend's onslaught of surf fueled mayhem, we're happy to announce this year's SurfGuitar101 Convention San Diego Pre-party!  The show will be held at The Soda Bar in the North Park area of San Diego. This year is really special as we're lucky to have one of the greatest instro surf bands of all time, The Space Cossacks!! If that weren't enough, also on the bill is the surf super group, Frankie & The Poolboys consisting of Ferenc Dobronyi from Pollo Del Mar, Danny Snyder from The TomorrowMen/Meshugga Beach Party, Karen Dobronyi from Meshugga Beach Party, Naotaka Seki from The Surf Coasters, and Tony Bald from The TomorrowMen. Rounding out the lineup will be San Diego's, The Secret Samurai who will start things off at 10pm. This show should get you more than adequate reverb poisoning. We hope to see as many sg101ers as possible to help kick off the weekend!  Check out the forum thread on this show for updates and for show reports. Check out the Facebook Event Page for the show as well!

That's right, the 3rd SurfGuitar101.com Convention is upon us next month! Here is a link to the original story. Things are happening fast and changing, so as always, follow this forum thread for the latest news. In addition we are excited to announce we are raffling off a G&L guitar thanks to forum member ColtsSurf! Please visit our forum threads to sign up for the member jams at the convention and the following Sunday at Don The Beachcomber.

This forum thread summarizes all the other shows before and after the convention on Saturday.

We hope to have a great turnout of fans, bands, vendors on Saturday, August 7th!

Laramie Dean Split 7" Release Party! Two dates, July 9th at the Doll Hut and July 10th at the Cat Club. Check out my new website www.laramiedean.com. Hope to see you there!

The Exotics, the Midwest's classic instrumental combo with the Big Go Go Beat, are embarking on a California tour in August! See you on the dance floor at the following dates:

• Aug 11: TBA
• Aug 12 Forbidden Island - Alameda
• Aug 13 Trader Vic's - Los Angeles
• Aug 14 Don The Beachcomber - Huntington Beach
• Aug 15 Int'l Surfing Museum Concert on the Pier - Huntington Beach
• Aug 17 Bar Pink's "TIKI TUES" - San Diego
• Aug 18 Tiki House - San Diego w/ Secret Samurai

For up to date news, be sure to follow this SurfGuitar101 forum thread.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: the festival's location has changed.

We are still in LIVORNO, of course, and the new event area is fantastic! We are just 5 min. from the sea, but not right on the coast anymore. We are sorry about this, but we had to do this. But - hey - we can tell you this is much more fun! All the rest is the same, lots of people coming from everywhere.

New location for the weekend: OTTO E MEZZO STUDIOS

Updates on www.surferjoemusic.com will be available over the weekend. Again guys: Livorno is NOT L.A. It's 20 min. to go around it. The actual distance from the old and new location is 5 min. Internal transportation, buses and eventually shuttle buses will be available.

Write me for any help: info@surferjoemusic.com

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Marie is the bar manager for Don The Beachcomber in Sunset Beach Ca, a very surf friendly venue. Marie had a bad car accident a few weeks back and we are putting on this event to raise funds for her.

Save this date: Sun. May 30th 2pm to midnight. Tickets for the big event can be bought here. Here is a list of the bands, and their myspace page to give them a listen.

• The Board Walkers
• Outerwave
• The Eliminators
• Slacktone
• Exotiki
• The Smokin Menehunes
• Glasgow Tiki Shakers
• Tikiyaki Orchestra

If you would like to donate to the fund, but cannot attend go here. If you do show up, there will be tons of stuff donated for a raffle, and auction.

We hope some of you can attend. More info to come soon.
Thanks
Jeff(btd)