I only heard good things about this years Surfguitar 101 convention out in California.
Here is the Surfguitar 101 YouTube playlist of the event.
This time german band The Space Rangers made an appearance there as a stop on their California tour. The band hails from Ulm and on guitar is Muck who played rhythm guitar on one tour with my old band The Looney Tunes. On that tour I borrowed him my Musima Eterna DeLuxe as he only owned a Steinberger headless and a jazz-box. It’s great to see him finally sporting a Jaguar. I knew the Surf-bug bit him when he started doubling my lead on Miserlou during one of our shows, and checking out the playlist from the convention I reckon his new band plays old showstoppers from the Looney Tunes setlist The Swingin’ Creeper (as it is tradtionally called in Germany, elsewhere known as Nightstick*, A Go-Go Dancer**, Kickstand*** by The Ventures) and Stampede. Talk about keeping the torch on fire.
* UK, ** US, *** Japan
- Surf Guitar 101 Convention
- Nicht der Süden
- Go-Go Beach
- Sam Spence Comp
- Surf Shows Slacktone, Surf Coasters, Dave Arnson + more!
hi sebastian,
vielen dank… hab meine steinberger nicht an den nagel gehängt, spiele jetzt eine mij jazzmaster und eine mia jaguar. du hast recht, die looney tunes haben mich damals mit dem surfvirus infiziert… unsere zeit in kalifornien war übrigens großartig, super nette menschen kennen- und liebengelernt… soll dir auch persönliche grüße von tikitena und jonpaul (tikimagazine) ausrichten.
Danke!