EPISODE 28

EVEN WHEN THE BIG DERBOSKI HITS A LIL "TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES", THE SHOW MUST GO ON! IT'S BEEN 28 EPISODES ALREADY, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT YOU CAN SLOW THE SURFPHONY OF DERSTRUCTION 2000 DOWN ... BUT YOU CAN NEVER STOP IT! HOLLYWOOD DB TRIED, THINKING HE COULD CANCEL THE BIG SURF, BUT I HAVE OTHER PLANS... AND THAT'S KEEPING THIS BIG BAD SHOW UP AND RUNNIN'! BIG SHOUT OUT TO BIG DAVE FOR DOIN A LIL DAMAGE CONTROL AND HOLDIN DOWN THE FORT WHILE I GOT MYSELF SITUATED IN THE AXIS OF TIME!

ALRIGHT SO YOU WANNA KNOW ABOUT THE MUSIC DO YA? GOT SOME TWANGY SURF AND SOME NEW REVERB SYNDICATE! YOU GOTTA HEAR THE SURF IN STORE ON THE SURFPHONY!

EPISODE 28 by Derk Brigante on Mixcloud

YOU NEED THE PLAYLIST... YOU GOT THE PLAYLIST! WOO!
Johnny Thunders - Pipeline
Pow Wows - The Horse Thief
The Squires - The Sultan
The Ventures - Walk Don’t Run
Link Wray - Run Chicken Run
The Bell Peppers - Bell Pepper Hop
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Bennet Cerf
The Volcanos - Maverick
Slacktone - Chaos
The Blind Cats - Crab Attack
The Reverb Syndicate - Better Dancing Through Technology
The Wipeouters - Wedgie Wipeout
The Incredible Mr. Smith - Heroes
Takeshi Terauchi - Hold Me
Huevos Rancheros - Reptile
King Beez - Spicoli’s Theme
Kai Winding - Soul Surfin'

ALSO SOME BIG NEWS... MARK THIS DOWN ON YER CALENDAR... THE 10th ANNUAL GREAT LAKES SURF BATTLE!!

LOOK AT ALL THESE BANDS! LUAU OR DIE! THE ROBOTS! KING BEEZ! THE REVERB SYNDICATE! ALL SORTS OF GREAT BANDS PLAYING THE WEEKEND OF JUNE 5, 6, AND 7! MAKE SURE YER THERE!!!

I WANNA GIVE A LIL SHOUT OUT TO ONE OF THE BANDS, THAT IS THE BLIND CATS! THEY REACHED OUT TO ME AND SENT ME SOME GREAT TUNES... WE HEARD THEIR SURF TRACK, CRAB ATTACK, AND DAMN IT WAS TASTY! JUST SO YER IN THE KNOW, THE BLIND CATS HAVE THEIR ALBUM RELEASE PARTY FOR "TAKE MY BLOOD" ON FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH AT BOVINE SEX CLUB! RSVP ON THE GOOD OL FACEBOOK PAGE!

AND OF COURSE, IF YA WANNA GET THE SURFPHONY RIGHT TO YA EACH AND EVERY FULL MOON...

SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES YA FINK!

EPISODE 26

DERK'S NOTE: OOPS! LOOK LIKE I FORGOT TO POST THIS ON THE APPROPRIATE DAY... NONETHELESS, I WAS ON TIME WITH THIS EPISODE! I UPLOADED IT TO MIXCLOUD AND I UPLOADED IT TO ITUNES SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD GET ON THOSE INSTEAD OF THIS LIL OL' BLOG!

LOOKS TO ME LIKE THAT ROCK IN THE SKY WE CALL THE MOON IS LOOKIN’ AWFULLY FULL! GOOD THING BECAUSE I GOT A WOO DEFICIENCY AND THERE’S ONLY ONE CURE… THE SURFPHONY OF DERSTRUCTION 2000 WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOTHING BETTER THAN THE BIG SURF TO GET RID OF THOSE WINTER BLUES! GUESS WHAT? THE BIG DERBOSKI DOES NOT LIKE SNOW! I DIG THE BEACHES, THE SUN, AND ALL THE PEACHES THAT COME WITH IT! IT’S TOO COLD TO EVEN WEAR MY LEATHER AND THAT STINKS! GOOD THING I HAVE THE SURFPHONY HERE TO KEEP ME WARM AND THINKIN’ OF A REAL WILD AND WET SUMMER TO COME WOOOOOOOOOO!

HEAVY STUFF COMIN’ UP ON EPISODE 26! DERK BRIGANTE IS BACK, NOT QUITE LIVE BUT STILL ALIVE… OR IS HE?! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN TIME FOR THE SURFPHONY TO TAKE OVER YER EARS FOR AN HOUR!

EPISODE 26 by Derk Brigante on Mixcloud

TIME FOR A PLAYLIST! 

The Astronauts - Baja

The Fathoms - Cahoon Hollow Hideaway

Fifty Foot Combo - Movin’

The Vydels - Unknown

The New Dimensions - Failsafe

Temptations - Blue Surf

Sir Frog and The Toads - Mustang!

The Ric-A-Shays - Groovy

Les Jaguars -  Guitar Esquire

The Apemen - Crash

The Surf Coasters - BIG THUNDER

Link Wray - Wild Side of the City Lights

Huevos Rancheros - Please Pass The Ketchup

Los Straitjackets - Espionage

Danny Twang - The Great Antonio

Luau or Die - Launch Code

Owen Bradley Quintet  - Big Guitar

Eddie Angel - Topless Beach

Billy et ses Copains - Minuit et Demi

THE SURFPHONY OF DERSTRUCTION 2000... A TALE OF TWO DERKS!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IT IS ABOUT DAMN TIME! THE BIG DERBOSKI IS FINALLY BACK ON THE SURFPHONY OF DERSTRUCTION 2000! NOT QUITE LIVE BUT STILL ALIVE! How I'm still alive is a friggin' miracle... I've survived possession, Judgement Day, the Nuclear Apocalypse, and even a skunky beer from SATAN! I guess you can now chalk up getting lost in time and space to the list of things that have failed to kill me GEEZE LOUISE will it stop?! Probably not, I'm a BAAAAD CAT, always gettin' myself into trouble and these past few months have been pretty much the norm.

I'm back around again to bring Surf from around the Earth in a manner that only The Big Derboski knows! No sleazy, greezy, cheezy Surf from "Hollywood", no need to get digital with a glorified nintendo NO we're just here to bring you the best in FAST... LOUD... AND LOOOOOOOOOOOOSE SURF! WE'RE GOING ANY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE BABY... SCRATCH THAT WE'RE GOIN' ANY WHICH WAY WE CAN WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

NOW you might be askin' yerself "why is Derk referring to himself as 'we?' Does he mean the royal 'we'?" NO YA FINK QUITE OVERTHINKIN' IT! When I mean "we", I mean ME and ... THE BIG D.B!

HOLY MOLEY TWO DERKS?! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE WHEN YER HAVING FUN YA FINKS! WHAT BETTER WAY TO CELEBRATE BEING ALIVE AND IN ONE PIECE THAN GETTING TOGETHER WITH THE BEST OF THE BEST IN SURF PODCASTS, DERK BRIGANTE?! he's pretty cool ya dig?

THE SURFPHONY OF DERSTRUCTION 2000... A TALE OF TWO DERKS! by Derk Brigante on Mixcloud

I'LL BET YA DOLLARS TO DONUTS THAT YER WONDERIN' WHAT THE HECK IS GOIN' ON! SO GO GET ME SOME DONUTS! I would make it real clear for ya and give ya a real academic explanation but that's not my style! Derk does a damn good job of it in the episode though so take a listen and find out why there's two of us here! All I will say is, there's not one, there's not two, but there are so many more of YOU WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! TIME FOR A PLAYLIST

The Del-Vetts - Ram Charger
The Trashmen - Tube City
The Statesmen - Sandstorm
The Good Guys - Collision Course
Les Schtroumpfs - Kamarade
The Fabulous Playboys - Shortnin’ Bread
Link Wray - Hang On
Huevos Rancheros - Go West Young Bee!
The Pyramids - Pyramid Stomp
Dave Myers and The Surftones - Surf Breaker
King Beez - Showdown
The Blue Demons - Pussy Whipped
The Nobles - Surf Beat
The Frogmen - Beware Below
The Reverb Syndicate - Worse Things Happen at Sea

SOLID MUSIC! WOULD IT BE ANY OTHER WAY? I DON'T THINK SO! The Big Derboski is mean, lean, and pretty clean and so I don't know anything about filler! I bring you finks the absolute best in Surf music! From the west coast of California to the Great Lakes of Toronto, Ontario, with a few stops in between, I bring the SURF! HOLD ON I'M NOT DONE YET, As the Reverb Syndicate say, worse things happen at sea, especially when yer hangin' ten! I'm not content to just sit here on this island and claim I play "surf from around the Earth". I surf the seven seas to bring the music from all over the world! BUT I wanna go local... Back to Toronto for a moment and talk about some of the bands that I dig there. The NINTH ANNUAL GREAT LAKES SURF BATTLE IS COMING UP AND IT'S SHAPING UP TO BE AN ALL OUT WAR! TWO NIGHTS, TWO STAGES, TOO MUCH SURF WOOOOOOOOOOOO!

OH WHO'S THE FELLOW "DJ DERK"? I BELIEVE THAT IS ME! shame I couldn't get my last name on there but when you go by several monikers like The Big Derboski does, yer bound to cause a bit of personality crisis WOOOOOOO NONETHELESS I will be there FRIDAY NIGHT playing some serious Surf tunes for all of you Toronto finks!

Here's where I have a BIG conflict of interest! Normally I like to place bets on who I think is gonna win the battle but it's gonna be a REAAAAAAAL tough choice! FRIDAY NIGHT IS ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING! I got two bands in the battle that I'm rooting for, that being The Gnarly Ones and the King Beez. OOOOOOOH MAAAAAN!

I went to see The Gnarly Ones back in January at Magpie Tavern and they packed that lil bar to the gills. All the finks there just tore the floorboards up! Lotsa fast and loud surf with some real BAAAAD SAX!! I just caught The Gnarly Ones again at The Cloak and Dagger a week or two ago and they may as well get into the demolition biz because they tore the roof off the place! The Big Derboski don't get scared very easily but I'm afraid of what The Gnarly Ones are gonna do to the Cadillac Lounge...

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN IS THE KINGS OF METAL... SURF! THAT IS THE KING BEEZ! I've caught 'em a few times when they stop into Toronto and though they're a coupla BEEZ, they ALWAYS BRING THEIR A GAME!! Last Sunday after I had won a pinball Tournament...
*pinball tourney pic*
I dropped into Clinton's Tavern to catch the King Beez and it was one helluva show! The King Beez put everything they had into their show and put on one of THE BEST SHOWS I HAVE SEEN IN A DAAAAAAAAMN LOOOOOOOOOOOONG TIME! Matt Groopie shreds with the best of 'em and with the way he was playing, I'm surprised his kustom guitar didn't set on fire what with the speed he was shredding at! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU SHOULD KNOW MATT GROOPIE YA FINKS he was on the Surfphony of Derstruction once with my buddy Alex Pulec of The Nursey and The Big Derboski too! We had a helluva time playing surf shellac DIG?

Surfphony of Derstruction 2000: Episode 8 - FAT STAX OF WAX by Derk Brigante on Mixcloud

BUT YEH I'M IN A REAL TOUGH SPOT FOR THIS YEAR'S GREAT LAKES SURF BATTLE... IS IT GONNA BE THE GNARLY ONES OR WILL THE KING BEEZ BECOME THE KING OF KINGS?! I DON'T KNOW!!! LET'S FIND OUT AT THE GREAT LAKES SURF BATTLE, COMING UP JUNE 6TH and 7TH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

YO KEEP UP WITH THE SURFPHONY OF DERSTRUCTION 2000 ON MY FRIGGIN FACEBOOK PAGE OK CLICK THIS LINK TO GET THERE YA FINK

SURFPHONY OF DERSTRUCTION 2000 EPISODE 2... THOUSAND!

WHAT'S HAPPENING???

WOOO I will tell you what is happening! It is the return of The Surfphony of Derstruction 2000! I'm here again to bring you EPISODE TWO.... THOUSAND!!! It's been a busy month here in Hell City but that doesn't mean you're gonna lose out on some Surf from around the Earth! Every full moon, when the tide is high, the BIG SURF will be here to help you hang ten!

Surfphony of Derstruction 2000 - Episode 2 by Derk Brigante on Mixcloud

DIG IT here's a playlist for your perusal!

Set 1 - Dirty Copz

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Good Cop Bad Cop
Davie Allan & The Arrows - Rumble
Huevos Rancheros - Smartbomb
The Ramblin' Ambassadors - Speed Wobble

Set 2 - STOMP!

Les Jaguars - Guitare Jet
The Baymen - Day Break
Avengers VI - Avengers Stomp
Los Straitjackets - Galaxy Drive

Set 3 - Miser-WOOOOO!
Dick Dale - Misirlou Twist
The Jades - Surfin' Crow
Southern Culture on The Skids - Meximelt
Bobby Fuller 4 - Misirlou

So, if you didn't catch my previous preview post about Dick Dale's Misirlou, then I highly suggest checking it out. What are ya waitin' for, ya chump?! I want ya to listen to the podcast so rather than dump all the neat facts about Misirlou here, why don't you download the episode and let the Doctor of Surf teach ya a little something!

I mentioned that I had consulted a fantastic book about the history of Surf music by Kent Crowley, Surf Beat: Rock'n'Roll's Forgotten Revolution, for some info about Dick Dale. If you wanna check that book out for yerself, hit up the Amazon link right over here. It's only fifteen bucks Canadian so that's not bad at all! I highly recommend this book. Obvious revelation, I know, but if you're at all interested in the Surf music scene and Wikipedia isn't doing it for ya, then GET THIS BOOK. It's hella in-depth and there's so much good information about all sorts of Surf bands, eras, styles, and what-have-you. The author, Kent Crowley, grew up in the scene, he was there man, and he definitely knows his stuff. It's really interesting to read about the evolution of Surf, from Dick Dale's audial simulation of surfin' to The Beach Boys and their vocal harmony stuff. It's cool, man, real KOOL.

If ya want a little sample, then check out this neat interview with Kent Crowley by the folks over at Book Club Live. Crowley talks a bit about how the technology came about, what Surf music meant, and a few neat anecdotes like how he was taught guitar by Norman Sanders of The Tornadoes.

Now, I'm always one to play Canadian Surf on the Surfphony. Ya gotta show some love for the Canucks and there is some great music coming out of The Great White North when it comes to Surf. From all over the nation, we have The Ramblin' Ambassadors, who released their latest album, Ramble On, in March 2012. You can check out the Bandcamp page and purchase the album there. We also have The High Tides and Luau or Die! rockin' the Toronto scene something fierce!

There's one classic Surf band outta Quebec that I really dig and that is Les Jaguars. They were out in the scene from around '62 to '64 doing some Shadows-style Surf. I played the track, Guitare Jet, on Episode 2 and if you wanna catch it on Youtube and send it to all yer friends then here ya go!



OH BY THE WAY, I'm making a special guest appearance "LIVE VIA SATELLITE" on REVOLUTION ROCK with my good friend Dave Konstantino, of The Hypnotics. If yer in the Windsor-Detroit area, you can catch Revolution SURF by tuning your radio to CJAM 99.1 FM at 10:30 EST! BIG DAVE is gonna play some Surf as well as I am gonna drop a few nuggets on ya! If you aren't in the Windsor-Detroit area, you can tune in online at www.CJAM.ca. CJAM is kind enough to offer downloads to every show so I will make sure to provide a link to Revolution Surf afterwards.

That's enough Surf for now! I'll catch ya on the flipside come next full moon!

April 12th - PINBALLIN'

Well, finks, this is the SECOND LAST episode of The Surfphony of Derstruction! The Big Derboski was just gonna put it on cruise control and have a simple show but...

NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! MICHIGAN PINBALL EXPO is this weekend so I thought I would talk about my other favorite thing besides SURF: PINBALL!!!

We talked about a couple of my favorite pinball machines, Twilight Zone and The Getaway: High Speed II as well as CENTAUR, a machine I have yet to play but looks really cool!

I dropped some really cool trivia about the machines so download the episode below to find out some neat pinball facts!

Check out the facebook page here for 2011 Michigan Pinball Expo. It's on now! I'll be there on Saturday!

Check out hella pinball machines and cool stuff like pinball techniques at the Internet Pinball Machine Database

ARTIST	SONG TITLE
spy-fi	exploration in terror
the von drats	wild weekend
joe dodo and the groovers	GROOVY
los straitjackets	teen beast
the ventures	twilight zone
the sadies	the horseshoe
the avengers IV	time bomb
huevos rancheros	ace o' spades
urban surf kings	and the horse you rode in on
the stage-men	fall out
pamela web and the george	hold on I'm coming
the surfdusters	gruesome

I played a couple of kool numbers from this REAL KOOL blog: THE DEVIL'S MUSIC. I provided the links to the particular blog posts in the song titles so look for it!

NO VIDEOS this week, couldn't find any of the songs I played out Youtube.

Download the latest episode here!

NEXT WEEK WILL BE THE FINAL EPISODE OF THE SURFPHONY OF DERSTRUCTION in its time slot of 7PM so make sure TO TUUUUUUUNE IN!

Follow The Surfphony of Derstruction on Facebook so you can keep up with us and find out when THE BIG SURF will be coming back on the air!

This is Derk Brigante! 'Till we WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO again!

March 22nd - SOCAN-CAN-CAN

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WOOOOOoooo! WOOOOOOOOOO-HAT A SHOW!! BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG DRIFT!! THE SURFPHONY OF DERSTRUCTION had to take a 180 when I found out that it would be SOCAN tracking period!! So I says to Mable, I says, "AW TA HELL with Aloha From The Far East for this week! Let's make some Canucks a coupla bucks!" and so I played an entire show of (hopefully) SOCAN-registered artists! DIG THAT MAPLE SYRUP!

ARTIST	SONG TITLE
les jaguars	guitare jet
tijuana bibles	catfight
mark brodie & beaver patrol	banzai rider
huevos rancheros	whiteout in wyoming
von drats	so long stinktown
the metalunas	venus-a-go-go
the ramblin' ambassadors	hawgtied
urban surf kings	phantom riders of the backlot
the sin-tones	it could be… a breaker full of DEATH
the reverb syndicate	shake don't stir
the surfdusters	radar hill
vegas beach	hip deep
vampire beach babes	tomb mau mau
les jaguars	shake
the blue demons	empire santo

One of my favorite Toronto Surf bands, The Blue Demons, with their track EMPIRE SANTO:

AHAHAHAHAHA CAMEL CLUUUUUUUUUUUTCH!! WOOOOOOOO!!

NEXT UP!! A rare and tasty track by Quebec's own Les Jaguars from back in the 60's during the first wave of Surf!


There's also a Myspace page for the band, check it out!

Here's a blog exclusive track, a real rare one out of Quebec as well, Les Megatones with Wheels!


LAST BUT NOT LEAST, The Tijuana Bibles' Custom Made Man! The video quality isn't the best but the sound is pretty good!


You gotta download the latest episode, March 22nd, and you gotta do it right now!!
Click Here to get yer download on!!

Also, come swing by the Facebook page and become a fan of The Surfphony of Derstruction!!

OKAY!! Next week, I'll try my damnedest to say... HELLOOOOOOOOO FROM THE FAR EAST!! STAY TUNED IN TO CJAM 99.1 FM EVERY TUESDAY AT 7PM!!

HERE'S A TREAT THAT YOU WILL NOT HEAR ON THE SHOW!! (too offensive for CJAM airwaves, HAHA!)

March 8th

WHAT IT IS WHAT IT IS FINKS!! THE BIG SURF IS BACK as we are after every Tuesday!! You can't stop the Surfphony of Derstruction, you can only slow it down! Good thing is that nothing was in our way this week and The Surfphony was at full throttle ALL NIGHT! woooooooo! Great show this week, LOTS of new stuff got some play! I've felt like I've been playing a lot of the same bands lately (not to say the show is going downhill OH NO) so I made an effort to try and play some bands that have had little to no play on The Surfphony!! Dig it!

artist	song
the sadies	the 3-B
the revelairs	the cruel sea
the jesters	the jester
the surfdusters	hero of the beach
cruis'n' USA	tubular surf
duane eddy	jitterboard
the roulettes	surfer's charge
PJ & the galaxies	scouse
huevos rancheros	moth dance, the
the sin-tones	(theme from) chick boat
the dictators	borneo jimmy
tijuana bibles	custom made man
blue jeans	yogiri no nagisa
mutsuhiko izumi	sewer surfin'
the youngsters	zebra

Are you wondering what the hell The Sadies are doing in the playlist? HUH?!? It's cool, man! The Sadies produced the soundtrack to Tales of The Rat Fink, a documentary all about BIG DADDY Ed Roth, baby! 26 tracks of some great, wacky, kooky instrumentals! REAAAAL KOOL!


Here's the trailer for Tales of The Rat Fink


... And one of the tracks featured in the film by The Sadies!


Another Canadian Surf band, The Sin-Tones, got a chance for some air-time on The Big Surf! I played their song "Chick Boat" in honour of International Women's Day!


We heard another song from Cruis'n' USA, this time TUBULAR SURF


I snuck in some more video game surf, this time we heard from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: TURTLES IN TIME with SEWER SURFIN'


lotsa videos to keep ya happy!

For the latest episode and some other previous ones, CLICK HERE!

As well, COMING UP NEXT WEEK is CALL OF THE WEST (or C.o.W. hahah!) Stay tuned for some Spaghetti Western Surfin' as we go South of The Border into The Wild West and trade in our surfboards for some horses! HI-YA! WOOOOOOOOOO

AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT'S GOING TO KICK YER ASS


You'll hear from me next week, finks!!! YOU HEAR ME?!

Surfphony of Derstruction January 4th

HEY FINKS! This episode marks the first Surfphony of Derstruction of 2011! KOOL!! We had a bit of a mini-theme this week. I played a couple of tracks with bad-ass (by my standards, haha) vocals. I threw in the Neil Young song as a special treat for listeners catching the last bit of the show.

artist	song
huevos rancheros	drive thru at molly's reach
the ramblin ambassadors	frank slide song
the blue demons	penetration
takeshi terauchi	black carnation
the varitones	repeteo
the reverb syndicate	escape from the village
the sentinals	the pipe
the deadlies	B6 Shuffle
dick dale	grudge run
wanda jackson	fujiyama mama
hold up	the outlaws
fifty foot combo	4 devil - 1 hell
tabarnacos surfers	ace of spades
neil young and the shocking pinks	mystery train

Wanda Jackson's Fujiayama Mama

Next week will be the same ol' thing! A POWER HOUR of SURF!!!

Click Here for the latest episode and older podcasts, DIG

December 14th

HEY FINKS! Just a regular ol' episode of The Surfphony of Derstruction! The Deadlies were kind enough to send us their album Meet The Deadlies which I debuted on this episode! The Deadlies are a couple of kool kats who know their way around a surf tune!

artist	song
urban surf kings	wigwam
the pagents	enchanted surf
the astronauts	surf's you right
the heyburners	bird walk
dick dale and bo troy and his hot-rods	slippery shillelagh
tabarnacos surfers	shot in the dark
the deadlies	mojave dry run
the deadlies	another nashville rash
huevos rancheros	gump worsley's lament
shadowy men on a shadowy planet	harlem by the sea
kenny & the sultans	with vigor
the nodeans	beach girl
the journeymen	surfer's rule
the bambi molestors	panic party
fifty foot combo	the legend of hanau eepe
the twin tones	buena suerte forastero

Here's a link to The Deadlies' myspace page.

Thanks again go out to The Deadlies for sending CJAM some SURF!

Click here for the latest episode and earlier podcasts!

November 30th - MIDNIGHT IN SALERNO

What a night, finks! The weather in Windsor was complete crap! It was dark and rainy as hell outside! The perfect weather for The Surfphony of Derstruction's FIRST-EVER theme show: MIDNIGHT IN SALERNO! We played all sorts of Nighttime Surf and it was good times! I had plenty of material to keep us goin', maybe even till midnight! Here's the playlist of what I did get to spin:

new plays

artist	song
urban surf kings	luger 3
the reverb syndicate	onto checkpoint bravo
the chesterfield kings	moon relay
the tempomen	midnight on pier 13
the bambi molesters	the kiss off
zz top	asleep in the desert
the debonaires	high wall
huevos rancheros	please pass the ketchup
deep note	sleeping with erik
atomic 7	seven stranded castanets
the ventures	music to watch girls by
mr gasser and the weirdos	midnight run
hula hoop	girls from ipanema
los straitjackets	della street
the reverb syndicate	m's lament

HUH?!?! ZZ TOP?! What is ZZ TOP doing on DA SURF?! First of all, ZZ TOP is ol' skool kool! Second, ZZ Top consists of amazing instrumentalists and the track Asleep in the Desert attests to that.

I was really excited about playing this song and talking about it on-air but I missed my chance! So here, check it out again!

Unfortunately, I cannot post as many youtube videos this week as a lot of the tracks I spun are troublesome to find on youtube.

In other news, I will be filling in for Martin Schiller of Tacit Karaoke this Sunday, December 5th. Tacit Karaoke is an all-instrumental program on CJAM 99.1 and I will adhere to the instrumentality! Not surf though, but something else... tune in to find out! THIS SUNDAY @6 PM on CJAM 99.1!

One more thing, SOCAN tracking period is coming up this weekend! December 5,6, and 7th! The Surfphony is on during this period so next week is an impromptu theme show! I will be spinning all Canadian surf bands in hopes that they are registered with SOCAN and get some money from the gov'! So, if you happen to be a Canadian surf band member reading this blog, Register for SOCAN and let me know that you want your tracks played!

Here's a Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet video to celebrate Canuck Surf!!

Click Here for the latest show and previous archived shows!

November 23rd

LET IT BE KNOWN. THAT THIS WAS A GOOD SHOW! I enjoyed it and I hope that you all did too. We took a look at Eddie & The Showmen's rendition of Squad Car. Originally recorded by The Bel-Airs, Eddie Bertrand of The Bel-Airs formed Eddie & The Showmen, a more Dick Dale-esque, guitar oriented surf band. The Showmen's cover of Squad Car is the preferred basis for many modern surf bands that have recorded the song.

Here's the original Bel-Airs recording:

Eddie & The Showmen doin' Squad Car:

artist	song
the ebb tides	big noise from waimea
eddie & the showmen	squad car
the bel-airs	squirt
luau or die!	mojave chaser
the reverb syndicate	on to checkpoint bravo
huevos rancheros	cindy with an S
shadowy men on a shadowy planet	average weekend '78
the blue demons	squad car
ramblin' ambassadors	lungbucket
the fractals	mothra
the moons	gammera
the motivations	motivate
takeshi terauchi	squad car
duane eddy	waterskiing
the webs	lost (cricket in my ear)
the invaders	davey jones rocker

Here's a rare treat of some Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet! Here's the classic rock/heavy metal flavoured Having an Average Weekend '78. Tasty!

Tune in next week for MIDNIGHT IN SALERNO! The FIRST-EVER theme show on The Surfphony of Derstruction! Wanna know what's in store?

DIG IT!!

Click here for the latest show and previous podcasts

Surfphony of Derstruction November 16th

Latest show, latest post baby!

Just a regular ol' surf show this week! A DAMN GOOD ONE at that!

I played a lot of obscure tracks from some surf comps. Comps such as Sleazy Surf! Vols. 1 & 2 and couple of tracks from Surfer's Mood.

We heard Dick Dale's Surf Beat

There's a neat little comment on the page of this video. Check it out for some serious nostalgia trippin'!

artist	song
shadowy men on a shadowy planet	honey, you're wasting ammo
the rattlesnakes	caravella
huevos rancheros	whiteout in wyoming
fifty foot combo	dimitrius
the reveltones	black lightning
the astronauts	surf's you right
the bedwells	karate again
bob vaught & the renegades	church key twist
rich clayton & the rumbles	flip side
the von drats	malaguena
dick dale and his del-tones	surf beat
urban surf kings	almeria
the el caminos	sumo wrestler
kenny & The Sultans	With Vigor
the fractals	quarter pounder

Tune in next week as we look at Eddie & The Showmen's Squad Car!

Too cool of a video to pass up! check out how the siren sound is made!

click here for the latest show and past podcasts!

Surfphony of Derstruction October 19th

Just a regular ol' kick ass SURF SHOW BABY!!!

I played The Space Plan, a local Windsor surf band from around 2000. The liner notes of their CD said that they won the Best Local Band jammie from CJAM that year. Pretty sweet to see some surf appreciation almost a decade ago!

SONG OF THE FUNKIN' WEEK!!

geeze, it's this song!

I was barely able to squeeze this song in cause I had to play it like no other! goddamn i said GODDAMN! it reminds me of this song from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time

yeaaaaaaaaaaaah!!

since the Surfphony is suiting up for Halloween, I gave listeners a little taste of the Halloweenies show coming up next week! I played The Ghastly Ones' Banshee Beach from their album Unearthed, a collection of re-recordings of The Ghastly Ones' favorite tunes from their earlier albums.

This is off the halloween compilation Halloween Hootenanny

Here is the playlist for Oct. 19

the space plan	tread lightly
the eradicators	friends & enemies
the volcanos	deora
huevos rancheros	endsville
the ghastly ones	banshee beach
the chesterfield kings	land beyond the moon
the reverb syndicate	bolshevik boogie
kenny & the fiends	moon shot
the aqua velvets	aqua nova
the crunchendoes	butterfingers
the sharks	BIG SURF
the ramblers	hangin' one
blue jeans	yogiri no nagisa
the twin tones	capello de mariachi
the von drats	instant soup just add soup

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Stay tuned to CJAM 99.1 whether you're on the dial or on the computer! The Surfphony of Derstruction will be presenting Halloweenies! a funkin' Halloween show DIG IT