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The Continental Magazine - Issue #14  w/24 song CD - #CT014 - $5.95 (OUT NOW!!!)

The latest issue of The Continental Magazine, featuring interviews with The Ghastly Ones and Wormtone Records, along with a 24 track CD, is now available for only $5.95. Also included in this issue are Satan's Pilgrims, a look at the Scandinavian surf/instro scene, the Double Crown On The Rocks 10th Anniversary Fest and much, much more. 36 pages in all, with a 2 color glossy cover. To order send $5.95 US + shipping ($1.05 to any US/Canadian address, or just $2.05 to any other address) to Double Crown Mail Order. You can also send a Paypal payment to records@dblcrown.com or cash/check/money order or order through the Double Crown website.

Sundazed is now listing several more Dick Dale Capitol records reissues as now available on their site! That's right, you can finally pick up Checkered Flag, Mr. Eliminator, and Summer Surf on CD for the first time ever. Sundazed previously released the landmark King of the Surf Guitar record a few months back, and if these new releases have the same quality packaging and liner notes, they are bound to be winners!

"A select few journeyed to Spain with Los Straitjackets. Hundreds surfed to Baja with Los Straitjackets and the Ventures. Now we bring you the best rock and roll vacation yet! Los Straitjackets Rock ‘N Roll Summer Camp. Three days and nights of twangtastic guitars, dancing Pontanis, rock en espanol and midnight jam sessions all in the beautiful environment of The Catskill Mountains."

Wow, a rock-n-roll summer camp with Los Straitjackets! What a brilliant idea! Head on over to http://straitjackets.com/summercamp/ for the details.

We have lost Josie Wilson and Bill Carson in the same month..........I can't think of anything to say. Thanks Josie for giving us all those wonderful early Ventures records. Thanks Bill for your part in making the Stratocaster the world's most popular guitar......eddie katcher

The NPR program Weekend America is going to run a segment on the outstanding For a Few Guitars More tribute to Ennio Morricone that was released in 2003. They have interviewed Moon Dawg, Ferenc Dobronyi, and Spanky Twangler, so it should be a very interesting segment.

The show airs at different times in different cities, usually on Saturday afternoon. The stations and times are listed here. Podcasts of the show are available after 3pm Saturday also, check here.

Hopefully this will renew some interest in this outstanding CD. Ferenc is working on getting another pressing going as well. Congratulations guys!

Vote for the Flyer of the month december 2006 till 10.02.2007. You can watch and vote for your faves HERE

Check out the winning flyer of the last round -> THE WHYS


Also have a look at the bandlinks:

WAY OUT WEST
DEADBOLT
THE SATELLITERS
ROBERT AND THE ROBOTERS
THE LONGBOARDS

Enjoy!

Submitted on behalf of Paul Johnson

SEASON'S GREETINGS, friends and guitar music fans! -

I've got TWO major new items to announce that just might add a little extra cheer to your holidays:

1) The brand new DVD, "IN CONCERT WITH THE DUO-TONES," is now OUT and available exclusively at PJMOTO.COM... AND...

2) After months of preparation, I have just today "gone live" at my website with our biggest-ever content UPGRADE there! LOTSA new stuff for you to see and hear...

I will tell you all about these below, after I remind you that our catalog of TEN CDs (+ one DVD now as well!) offers many great gift ideas for the music lovers on your list. We are READY AND EAGER to help you scratch some of those names OFF your list; so we hope you'll do some of your holiday shopping with us at PJMOTO.COM, where you can listen FREE to about 200 of my tunes (dating from the '60s to today...) and then conveniently order what you like online.

V/A - Seasonal Favorites: Volume One CD

Originally released back in 2000, this collection of yuletide tunes performed by surf n' garage bands from throughout the world sold out within a few months of it's original release. Now 6 years later the time is right to reissue it - with bonus tracks! We've added three tunes that we're sure you'll enjoy. It has cover art by Johnny Bartlett and 16 great tunes (14 instros/5 vocals). We hope to put together Volume Two next year (if you are in a band and want to be a part of next year's release please get in touch)!

Tracks:
1. Jon & The Nightriders - Sleigh Ride
2. The Boss Martians - It's Christmas Time
3. The Neptunas - Mistletoe Twist
4. Girl Trouble - Sigue Sigue X-mas
5. Death Valley - Carol of the Bells
6. Los Mel-Tones - Silent Night
7. The Aqualads - We Wish You A Merry Xmas
8. Frigg A Go Go - Santa Claus Go To The Ghetto
9. Del Noah & The Finks - Have Yourself A Merry Little Xmas
10. The Lunatics - Rocknuts
11. The Firebirds - Living Doll
12. The Heatscores - Scrooge
13. The Tacoma Four - Christmas Is A Drag
14. The Ebineezer Scrooge Appreciation Society - Hang On Rudolph
15. The Bonesharks - Little Drummer Boy
16. The Space Cossacks - Christmas Island

BONUS TRACKS

17. The Bitch Boys - Jingle Bells
18. Urban Surf Kings - We Three Kings
19. The Surfites - Santa Claus Goes Surfin'

Dateline Omaha, NE
Unlimited Productions Releases Surfin' In The Midwest, Vol. 4
Phil Dirt

Unlimited Productions has just released the long-awaited fourth volume in their amazing Surfin' In The Midwest series. I had the pleasure of assisting on this one, and I'm very pleased with the outcome. Extensive liner notes as always, lots of pictures of bands, and more. This one is very clean as a result of extensive restoration of the source material. It's on 12 inch vinyl.

Those of you who have earlier volumes of this series know what it means to get another volume out. Volume one came across my radar one rainy afternoon at a little refuge in San Jose called Dedicated Record Collector. There is was, sitting quietly in the "new" bin. The artwork alone was worth the dinero, but a quick glance at the track listing and I knew I had to have it. Surfin' In The Midwest (Land Of The Ho-Dads) raised the bar for comps of dusty old singles.

The series has included so many magical surf obscuros that it's hard to under-value. Just look at the list of tracks before this volume.

Stephen McParland, author of the new book Surf Music U.S.A. (as announced in this story), has a request for all you surf fans out there. Stephen is writing a new book that will look at 30 surf and hot-rod LP covers, telling the story about them and the group responsible. He is trying to locate copies of the KPOI and KYA versions of Del-Fi's BATTLE OF THE SURFING BANDS LP. If you can help, please contact Stephen, and tell him SurfGuitar101 sent ya!