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Great news, Eddie!
How was your crowd reaction at the convention? I like to find
out/confirm that modern surfers dig the reverb twang...whether they know
what it is or not ;-)
I think sports enthusiasts in general are a good market for the Surf
audiences. Energy, excitement, action!
BW Dave
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
[mailto:]
>On Behalf Of John McCorvey
>Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:30 PM
>To:
>Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Quickie Surf Show report: The Novarays,
Orlando
>Sat 1/14
>
>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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