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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!

The Del Sonics have arrived, and are embarking on their "World Domination Imminent" tour! Commencing in their hometown of Brizvegas, Australia, the run of dates continues until total global power is achieved.

The engine room rhythm section of The Big Kahuna (bass) and Krank Daddy (drums) power like the Starship Enterprise on steroids. Out the front and directing traffic on Fender Mustang guitar (and with aircraft landing technology at his toes) is the one-man tsunami, Twang! It's surf music, Jim, but not as we know it........

Sounds like, hmmmm..... The Ramones and The Ventures hanging out at Frank Zappa's beach house with John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix and The Monkees. Later, Ritchie Blackmore and The Ronettes will drop in for fondue and bikini Twister!

See ya in the surf, grommets!

website - www.myspace.com/thedelsonics

videos - http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=57307842

Ok, I've been going around and around on this and have changed my mind several times. Here's the deal: SG101 needs a new operating system to keep us going in the long term. This will also facilitate rolling out a test version of the next version of this website: SG101 v2.0. I was going to bring the whole server down for a few hours (or more) and perform the work and bring it back up. However I'm not really certain I can do the job in "just a few hours", and I'd hate to cause a major goof and have us go down for several days. So, here is the new plan: I'm going to upgrade the server by renting a new one, and gradually transition all of our stuff over to it over the course of (hopefully) one month or so. A brand new server will have a much faster processor and double the memory we have now. This will be a good long term investment. However, it does mean that I'm going to be renting two servers simultaneously for a short time.

So I'm rattling the donation cup so I don't have to eat all the costs myself. SG101 is completely member supported, so if you enjoy arguing about small circles of foam, small tear-drop pieces of plastic, long skinny metal strings, coils of wire wrapped around magnets, glass tubes with hot wires in them, with the occasional infrequent discussion of SURF MUSIC and LIVE SHOWS (I keed, I keed), then I'm asking you to consider pitching in a few bucks to help with the costs of this endeavor. If everyone just gives a few bucks each that should cover me during this transition period. Your generosity and support is, as always, GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Here is the link to the donations module, which eventually leads to Paypal. Remember you don't have to have a Paypal account to donate, they will accept major credit cards.

If you have any questions, comments, or want to help in other ways, please feel free to contact me.

THANK YOU!
-BN

Hey kids, if you haven't heard, get ready for the 4th annual Clarkston Surf Fest on May 23rd! Check out this lineup of bands:

• Daikaiju
• Necronomikids
• The Broken Spokes
• The Penetrators
• The Mystery Men?
• Stratogeezer
• The Surge!
• Killer Filler

Head on over to the Clarkston Surf Fest website for all the details. Read more to see the event flyer!