Wednesday, August 22, 2007

The Soundwaves

Nothing says “Burbank” like a free concert at the library!

Derek took the kids to see the Soundwaves surf band at the Burbank Central Library yesterday evening, and they had a great time. Here’s a movie!


(They did check out books, too.)

2 comments:

Matt said...

How was the band? I've never heard of them!

Derek said...

They were great fun. They are a quartet of guys from Southern California who have been playing instrumental surf music since the 60s. The drummer is from Burbank!

http://www.soundwavessurfband.com/

They played the music of Dick Dale, The Bel-Aires, Chantays, Ventures, etc. The core members were all members of various surf bands in their high school days in the early to mid-sixties, and have continued to play professionally in one form or another since then. The SoundWaves originally formed to play at their 40th High School class reunion; then in 2005 they won a "Taste of the Bands" competition in San Pedro placing first out of twelve bands in competition. They clearly enjoy playing great instrumental classics. It would be fun to be in a band like this someday...