Sunday, December 27, 2020

Battle of the Band Names

There's a new gift book out that is filled with, in their opinion, stupid band names with a whole section on surf music. Their attempt at being snarky is revealing. Anyway, bad publicity is still good publicity. I see Pollo Del Mar and so many of my friend's bands listed here.











Thursday, July 2, 2020

Pollo and Frankie albums on Bandcamp– finally!

Hi Friends,
All the Pollo Del Mar and Frankie and the Pool Boys studio albums are now available from Bandcamp. The Pollo albums all have bonus tracks.
https://pollodelmar.bandcamp.com/
https://frankieandthepoolboys.bandcamp.com/






Saturday, January 18, 2020

Don't Walk Away Renee...

I have loved this song since I was a little kid. I finally got the courage to try and do it instrumental surf style. I hope you dig it!

One of the most beautiful baroque pop songs ever, originally recorded by The Left Banke, then The Four Tops and then so many others. I tried to do it justice in the surf guitar style. All credit due to songwriters Michael brown, Bob Calilli and Tony Sansone for the amazing melody over a beautiful chord progression. Rolling Stone placed this song number 220 on their list of all time greatest songs. I used a Strat into an Ibanez echo, into Fender Reverb tank into a Quilter Micropro amp.