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still recovering from an intense evening of live surf music
the SURF-ROCK SHINDIG at 'Otto's Shrunken Head' January 7th was a
powerful example of how amazing surf music can be live, and how
diverse the genre is interpreted and presented
I suspect The Blue StingRaye will post one of her attentive on-the-
spot reviews soon, but I just wanted to THANK everyone who made this
event so special
first of all, love goes out to STEVE, NELL and D.J. JANUARY
at 'Otto's' -- great staff of people who are totally behind the SURF-
ROCK SHINDIGs - bless you all!
and a shout-out to The Blue StingRaye, Bob D., and Oceana &
Mike 'Staccato' Rosado (of the 9th Wave and NESMA Big Kahunas) - who
were there to be part of the scene -- and who surprised yours truly
with an amazing birthday cake for me (my birthday was January 5th) -
which we shared with the mob scene at 'Otto's' -- that is some
serious love, and I am most grateful
and plenty of surf rockers in the house: Tricia/Joey/Paulie
Tarantino (Tarantinos/NYC), Dave W. (Howlin' Thurstons), guitarist
Barry Simon
the show opened with SHECKY & THE TWANGTONES - first time I got to
see this band -- they presented a diverse mix of sounds,
incorporating some interesting percussionm stand-up bass - a sweet
synthesis of surf, rockabilly....I totally dug 'em...they are working
on a CD
MISTER NEUTRON came on second and were hot as Hell from the first
note (with a special thx for a surfy version of 'Happy Birthday' -
that's another first for me) - their set is almost 100% instro now --
Damian's picking in particular was lightning speed
then came the dark reverb monsters, THE COFFIN DAGGERS, complete with
accompanying b-movie sci-fi projections behind them -- VIKTOR, I
swear, is channeling from another place....man he pulled out all
stops, including the use of a theremin for their take of Pink
Floyd's 'Interstellar Overdrive' - the band is playing tighter than
ever too - holy shit does this band knock ya back
and VENICE BEACH MUSCLE CLUB closed out the evening; and they were
playing some fluid surf, great song mix too; get this, when they
went on (around 2:30 am I think?), there were still (I counted) over
25 people still sitting their diggin' the reverb, with others coming
in and out of the room
this SURF-ROCK SHINDIG is getting entrenched at OTTO's, it would
seem -- and, as I have always said, TWANG IT, AND THEY WILL COME
anxious to see what the Blue StingRaye has to say
BIG THANKS AND KISSES ON THE FOREHEAD TO ALL OF YA
Unsteady Freddie
