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East Tennessee's one and only all instrumental surf band has released it's second CD on LandLocked records titled "Live at Bikini Beach" . A throw back to the Classic 1960's Surf Sound with a modern twist. The band formed in 2006 and in 08 released it's debut "Shark Attack". Hailing fron East Tennessee, not exactly a hot bed of instrumental Surf music but the one time home of The Ventures Drummer Mel Taylor. The band consist of,  Billy Crawford - Lead Guitars, Dave Vaught - Rhythym guitars, Charlie Aesque - Bass guitars, Carnell Cross - Drums, Joey Cross - Percussion. You can check out the band in action and purchase both CD's at www.myspace.com/thethunderheads.

We have a brand new batch of t-shirts, designed by members Duff (surfbeatnik) and Doug (stormtiger)! These shirts are being sold through fellow member Carol (mom_surfing's) online store for her surf shop. Check out this forum thread for more information. Here is the link to the SG101 t-shirt store page. Read more to see the 2 designs and colors...

Sad news from The Ventures website. Founding member Bob Bogle passed away on Sunday, June 14, 2009. At least we'll always be able to cherish the great music that Bob made with The Ventures. Here is a clip of "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" from the Beloved Invaders film (1965). Thank you for the years of fantastic music Bob!

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Robbie Allen and the Outer Edge will be returning to the Park Chalet on June 28th. Geoffrey Clegg has settled back into the band almost like he never left. He brings a real hard and tight bottom end to the band's sound along with helping Gary out on the occasional vocals. We're excited to come back to San Francisco again and hope some of you in the Bay Area can make it out!

June 28th, 2009
Robbie Allen and The Outer Edge
Park Chalet
1000 Great Highway
San Fransisco, CA 94121
www.beachchalet.com

http://www.robbieallenmusic.com/

The first full album of Wadadli Riders will be out on July, presented at the Surfer Joe Summer Festival. This will be the very first surf record ever produced in the Caribbean! Title will be "Made in Antigua", and it's true, completely produced on the island by Surfer Joe Music. 10 new original tracks, cover artwork by Fred Lammers, lots of Caribbean vibes and much fun.

Some preview tracks will be available within the end of June at the band's MySpace page. Hope you'll like them!

The domain name surfguitar101.com has been transferred to the new server, and if you can read this then you have found us again. It may take a few more hours for the change to propagate throughout the internet. Please let me know if you see any problems with the site.

Thanks everyone for your donations and making this server upgrade possible!

Thanks to your generous donations we are doing some upgrading around here. SG101 is moving to a new server. I'll start the move early Monday, May 25th. It may take several hours for the domain name to server address change to propagate around the internet. To prevent forum posts from getting lost, I'll just shut down the current site early Monday. After a few hours you should see us running again.

I've done these domain name transfers before. Sometimes they go fairly quickly and I've also seen them take 24 hours. It also depends on where you live. Hopefully it will be quick. And you Americans should be out celebrating Memorial Day in any event. :) If you want to check the status, I'll post updates to my twitter feed.

The new server will provide us more growing room and will be a good platform to launch a long overdue upgrade to the site software. Thanks everyone for your support and patience during this transition!

Check out the NESMA Featured Band for May 2009. It's an interview with Bobby D, host of Surf Nite!