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Wow, what a great event!!!
I think it's important that we recognize one guy who's quietly
becoming the leading promoter of surf music today: Ferenc
Dobronyi. Check it out:
1) brought the Surf Coasters to the US not once, but TWICE in the
last two years!!
2) set up this show for Guitar Player magazine (yep, that was him)
3) brought Rick Escobar out of surf music retirement and played
rhythm guitar for him in the new Woodies (probably got the rest of
the musicians together, too!)
4) is producing truly incredible and adventurous music with Pollo
Del Mar for over ten years now.
5) produced a great trad surf album with the Mach IV.
6) released the Woodies on CD after the recordings sat around for
years
6) has designed many fantastic covers for many different surf bands
People, Ferenc deserves our greatest grattitude! A big round of
applause for him, and let's pray that his wife may continue to put
up with all these non-family activities!
Thank you, Ferenc!
Ivan
--- In , Rick & Carol Selby
<selby@e...> wrote:
> Well, they've done it again. Dave, Dusty and Sam, along with our
favorite
> chickens of the sea, Pollo del Mar, put on a tremendous
(mandatory, hence I
> was there...) show on Tuesday night at the Boom Boom Room in SF. I
kept no
> set list as the enjoyment factor was so great (and the room was
pretty
> dark), so I won't try to repiece it together from memory. PDM's
opening
> slot was cool and sophisticated, lapsed into wild and rockin' with
Jeremy's
> Bonzo drum solo with smiles all around. A bit of the automotive
night with
> Route 666, Cutlass Supreme and (I believe) Red Asphalt. Flash of
Green is
> so very nice as well. I loved it. And then the three piece wonder
that is
> Slacktone. It never ceases to amaze me just how hard all three of
these
> guys play - definitely a whole is greater than the sum of the
parts thing.
> On every song - except maybe Rell Sunn Aloha which is 'just'
intensely
> beautiful. Some side trips and explorations, as Dave described
them, were
> offered as well, including a tribute to Paul Johnson in the form
of Mr.
> Moto. It was great to get to hang with Paul the Pyronaut (who once
again
> provided my old ears with plugs) and his gal Sherry (apologies for
any
> misspelling/confusion); We went down to a 50's style burger joint
and
> observed both bands in pre-show fortification mode :) Great
visiting with
> Jeff, bass PDM, there and the always-outgoing Ferenc. Also fun
chatting
> with Matt Kora and meeting Stanitarium. Jaimie and Jim Thomas
representing
> the Mermen contingent were also fun to catch up with. So many
great players
> in one room at the same time! The surf scene is the best. Thanx to
Guitar
> Player for making this happen and Slacktone and Pollo del Mar for
doing
> what they do so well. Hopefully they'll do it in Portland as well
sometime
> soon.
>
> Off to Florida for a week, hopefully not into another round of
hurricane
> madness,
> Rick
