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Hi Gang! Katcher here, our group The Surge! had the great honor of
performing for this year's Surf Expo 2006, at the Orlando Florida Convention
Center on Friday night January 13......It was a great experience and a great
crowd, we were really lucky to be able to perform for so many real surfers and
board sports enthusiasts. We will be posting some pix as soon as I am able to
get the software loaded for my new camera and figure it all out. We were also
really lucky that fellow 101er, momsurfing, (Carol Busbey) made the treck to
Orlando to from Cape Hatteras NC to join in on the fun. Carol is a great
person and a real hoot to hang out with. She personally escorted this surf
dummy around the show explaining the finer points of the sport and its related
hardware......She was also willing to spend some time taking pictures....We owe
her big!!!!!! Thanks Carol!!!
The Surge!
Now on Saturday, we had the day to kill and went looking for cool, local
guitar shops.....after the usual big box stores, we stumbled on The Guitar
Den.....guys, this place has the biggest inventory of old cool suff that I
have ever seen......now you all know, Eddie here is no spring chicken and I
HAVE been in some neat stores......but the Guitar Den takes the cake........I
haven't seen that much cool stuff since the late 60's Tons of Fender, Kustom
Vox (the real Voxes) Silvertones and the list goes on and on........While
standing near the front counter I overheard a guy talking about Jazzmasters and
I introduced myself, only to find out that he was Louis of The Novarays!!!! if
all this wasn't cool enough, The Novarays were playing a show nearby on
Saturday night, so we headed off after dinner to Holly and Dolly's bar (real
name, no kidding) for some great surf and instro.....
Boy, they were on fire!!!! Louis is a former guitarist for party band
deluxe, The Woggles and you can just feel his excitement and VERY entergetic
presentation.....All the Novarays are great players and they sounded really
big.....Both guitarists played vintage Deluxe Reverbs with Louis on an AVRI
Jazzmaster and the rhythm guitarist playing a Master Built Custom Strat. They
had a great complimentary sound that blended well with the bass player's Fender
Precision Bass. The drummer was kicking butt and the whole band had a very
powerfull sound......The set was a great mix of cool covers and neat originals
that ran for over an hour. They even did a completely reworked cover of an
Electric Light Orchestra number. The Novarays are a real asset to the surf
music scene. Great band, great evening, cool little bar (owned by a pair of
twin, former Weeki Watchi Springs mermaids). I invited the guys to get
involved with SurfGuitar101. If you can catch one of their
shows, DO IT! Eddie Katcher
Ferenc Dobronyi <> wrote: While we are talking about
effects, or fuzzes anyway,
I have a question about delays. My second Danelectro
delay went down right before a show last Friday, and I
will not be buying another, despite the fact that is
is a great sounding unit. I can't stand the fact that
the jacks are wired to the circuit board instead of
the unit shell. This has been the point of failure for
both units now. Stupid engineering-- the unit has a
heavy duty shell, but why did they bother?
The feature I am really looking for is the high end
roll of that gives a delay the analog sound, so I am
wondering what other people are using. No I don't want
to carry my echoplex around, just too fragile. Ivan,
weren't you using an Akai Headrush for a while?
Thanks,
ferenc
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