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Hey gang, we wanted to remaind everyone of the upcoming show with Nokie Edwards (lead guitar of the Ventures as you all know). The Reefriders will open the show at 9:00p, you gotta see these guys, thier drummer Glen kicks some serious punk/surf butt. Robbie Allen and the Sundogs will be there doing their surf/psychedelic thing, and then Nokie will be performing an all-Ventures setlist, backed by Robbie and the Sundogs

Ticket price for the Nokie Edwards concert at the Brookdale Inn will be $20 but we've arranged for surfguitar101 members to get a discount if they buy online at the http://nokieedwards.eventbrite.com page.
Click on the button that says 'Discount Code' or something like that and type in "surfguitar101" and your ticket price drops to $15.

There will also be both an acoustic guitar drawing and an electric guitar drawing at the Nokie Edwards concert at the Brookdale Inn in March.
You can also buy tickets and keep up-to-date on the concert by going to http://www.m3california.com/brookdale

The Ventures and The Wailers will be doing a single night show at The Moore Theater in Seattle on April 10th, 2009.

In 1958, Bob Bogle and Don Wilson, formed the nucleus of the original music group, The Ventures. The duo was joined a few years later by Nokie Edwards to record “Walk, Don't Run”. The song hit Billboard's Singles Chart on July 18, 1960 and peaked at #2. The band was prolific during the 60’s with touring and recording albums. This show will mark their 50th anniversary.

The Wailers was one of the most dominating forces in the 60s Northwest music scene, The Wailers are an American rock band from Tacoma, Washington. Formed around 1958, they are often considered the first garage rock group. They perform a hybrid of saxophone-driven R&B and good old Chuck Berry rock and roll.

For tickets and more information follow this link.

Sprayface is back in 2009 with this awesome line up at the 2009 Rockabilly Fest in Phoenix , Az. 

We are stoked about sharing the stage with some of our all time favorite bands!!!

Read more to see the show flyer...

Yes, the Trashmen are scheduled to come back to Europe on July, beginning of the month. The gigs are coming out and we will post some news as Surfer Joe Music and support the promotion as usual. We are not dealing with this booking but we are proud that this tour is happening again! The band will also be the main guest at the Festival Beat in Italy on Saturday the 4th of July.

The Svens will be performing there latest  "Cowboy Surf Poetry" Show, Saturday March 7th at Bombs Away Cafe in Corvallis, OR.

Come here the tales from Drake Missouri small town eight days off the Oregon Trail. Rock out with there original surf and covers of non- standards. Show starts at 9:00 pm, no cover.

If any of you have picked up The Penetrators DVD “Declassified” (available for purchase here: http://www.penetrators.com/loot.html ) I’m sure you’ve committed to memory the fact we played our first club gig on March 26th 1994. As coincidence would have it, the 15th anniversary of that date will be commemorated with “Operation: CRUSH CANCER” – A benefit for Brian (Spanky Twangler) Rogers at the Star Bar in Atlanta on Thursday March 26th and Friday March 27th.

Benefit or no benefit, this is one crazy-great line up of straight-up Surf & Garage Rock and Roll!!!!! Here is the info:

[begin transmission] I'm proud and excited to present the "official" line-up for: The Southern Surf Syndicate Spanktacular, Operation: CRUSH CANCER

At The Star Bar March 26th-27th. Benefit for Brian (Spanky Twangler) Rogers.

Thursday March 26th

9:00-9:30pm Slim Chance and the Convicts
9:45-10:15pm The Mystery Men!
10:30-10:50pm Myopic i (Debut!)
11:05-11:35pm The Holland Dutch
11:50-12:40pm Cletis and His City Cousins
12:55-close Thee Crucials

Friday March 27th

9:00-9:30pm The Surge!
9:45-10:15pm The Electric Cycles
10:30-11:00pm Dragline (Re-union!)
11:15-11:45pm The Penetrators w/ special guests
12:00-12:50pm The Woggles
1:05-close The Forty-Fives

There will be DJs each night and a fund-raising raffle too! The Star Bar is located at 437 Moreland Ave Atlanta GA 30307.

The AquaSonics play Saturday, February 28th, at the Skylark with special guest Miss Kitty Baby! Read more for the show flyer...

Free live surf instrumentals w/ The Boardwalkers this Saturday, 6-9 (+ new Dumb Angel Blog)

On Saturday February 21 @ 6, come by Stories Book Store, 1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California (Echo Park, just South of Alvarado) to hear surf instrumental combo The Boardwalkers live and in person. They'll be playing between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Stories for a book event based around my new one with Brian Chidester, "Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom." Several television monitors around the shop will be screening a wide variety of pre-1970 surfing movies as background eye candy (and for Pop effect) as The Boardwalkers play, and we meet, greet and sign books. For more information and a ton of groovy pics, check:

dumbangelmag.blogspot.com

Comments on the blog site, very much appreciated. No one previous has presented The Rendezvous like this.

Thanks, folk, and hope to see you @ Stories...

Domenic Priore

The Mermen wash into San Francisco’s Independent on March 6, 2009. “An Evening with the Mermen” Kicks Off the Iconic Band’s 20th Anniversary Year of Celebratory Headlining Performances and a Summer CD Release. See the full press release online with images at: http://www.prthatrocks.com/pressrel/mermenmarch06pr.htm

For all Agent Orange fans...

Agent Orange, the original southern California punk/surf power trio band, will appear at Paradise Lost on Feb. 15....

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