First Chattanooga Surf Stomp!

Surf's up in Tennessee for the very first ever Chattanooga Surf Stomp with spooky surfabilly from Indiana's The Katatonics, the triple surf guitar barrage of Atlanta's The Mystery Men?, and local noisy surf outfit Genki Genki Panic.



Here's the Facebook event page.

Highlights from Southern Surf Stomp! on 7/9/16

The Flamethrowers

Nate Fackler

Bobby Patrick

Scott Paten

Steve Sacco

The One and Only Bill Davis

 

 

Bill Davis

Melanie Davis

Matt Steadman

Terry Baker

Crazy Aces

Jeff Senn

Kiwamu Stewart

Sonny Harding

The Mutations debut full-length, "High Tide", out now!

Highlights from Southern Surf Stomp! on February 21, 2015

James Freeman (A.K.A. El Capitan, right) and Johnny McGowan (left)

Elliot Dangar (A.K.A. Sticks Stechkin, drums), Jamie Galatas (bass)

El Capitan and the Band With No Name

Jeff Senn tuning up his Teisco

Kiwamu Stewart

Sonny Harding of MOONBASE filling in on drums for the Crazy Aces

Jeff and Kiwamu always look like they're having so much fun on stage

Fogging up Kavarna

Crazy Aces

The band was kind enough to have me on stage for a couple of tunes

Playing with some of my favorite musicians

Southern Surf Stomp! presents Aqualads (NC), Genki Genki Panic (TN), Built For Speed (Motörhead tribute)

Next year in 2016, North Carolina's Aqualads will celebrate their 20th anniversary!  So needless these guys have it figured out and are in it for the long haul.  Along with The Surge (who have also been around about as long in some form or another), the 'lads play the finest traditional surf music in the region.  The band has shared the stage with legendary acts such as Dick Dale, Link Wray (RIP), Southern Culture on the Skids, and Agent Orange and in 2013 my group The Mystery Men? was lucky enough to perform with them up and down the West coast including the Surf Guitar 101 convention and the Huntington Beach Pier.  Their discography includes four full length albums with their latest being Treasures, an apt description for the songs contained upon the record.

Genki Genki Panic, hailing from Chattanooga, Tennessee, are newcomers to the scene and play horror surf and have a hell of a time doing it.

Performing the songs of Motörhead, this show will be the first for Atlanta's own Built for Speed.  The group features two Stomp alums including myself (The Mystery Men?, MOONBASE, The Silent Knights) on bass as well as David Northrip (The Fugitives, The Silent Knights) on vocals and guitar.