KFJC Surf Battle of the Bands

History: During the golden age of surf music in Southern California, Los Angeles radio station KFWB held monthly dances for teens featuring local surf bands like The Chantays, The Surfaris, The Bel-Aires and hundreds more. These bands would become known as the fathers of the surf rock sound, recording hits like Wipe Out, Pipeline, Penetration, Mr. Moto and Miserlou. In 1963, Del-Fi Records releases an LP featuring the best bands from the KFWB Battle of the Surf Bands series.

Today: Bands continue to create and perform surf music and stations like Los Altos Hills' KFJC continue to play and support the surf sound over the airwaves and internet. KFJC has long been dedicated to instrumental surf music-- DJ Phil Dirt is starting his 21st year as host of "Surf's Up" on Saturday nights from 7-9PM. Though the station is known for it ecclectic playlist, many DJs regularly include surf cuts on their shows. In 2004 KFJC stages its own Battle of the Bands and assembles a fundraiser CD featuring fifteen Bay Area surf bands.

	KFJC presents: The Battle of the Surfing Bands Who: 14 of the Bay Area's top Surf Bands Where: The Hotel Utah, fourth and Bryant in San Francisco When: 4 PM- 9:30PM Sunday June 20, 2004 Master of Ceremonies: KFJC DJ Phil Dirt $8 -- Age 21+ History: During the golden age of surf music in Southern California, Los Angeles radio station KFWB held monthly dances for teens featuring local surf bands like The Chantays, The Surfaris, The Bel-Aires and hundreds more. These bands would become known as the fathers of the surf rock sound, recording hits like Wipe Out, Pipeline, Penetration, Mr. Moto and Miserlou. In 1963, Del-Fi Records releases an LP featuring the best bands from the KFWB Battle of the Surf Bands series. Today: Bands continue to create and perform surf music and stations like Los Altos Hills' KFJC continue to play and support the surf sound over the airwaves and internet. KFJC has long been dedicated to instrumental surf music-- DJ Phil Dirt is starting his 21st year as host of "Surf's Up" on Saturday nights from 7-9PM. Though the station is known for it ecclectic playlist, many DJs regularly include surf cuts on their shows. In 2004 KFJC stages its own Battle of the Bands and assembles a fundraiser CD featuring fifteen Bay Area surf bands.
	The Battle of the Surfing Bands show is a benefit for community sponsored KFJC Radio. The door charge and all profits from the sale of the CD will go directly to helping fund the station. The bands are all contributing their performance to support the radio station that has supported them over the years. The doors of the venerable Hotel Utah will open at 4PM, and the music will start at 4:30. Each band will get a 20 minutes to showcase their best material. The bands will be sharing a backline to facilitate a speedy set change. The order will generally follow seniority. The times shown here are almost guaranteed to change. Check back for final line-up! 4:30 - The Skegs 4:50 - The Corsairs 5:10 - Surf Cinema 5:30 - The Aquamarines 5:50 - The Surf-Liners 6:10 - The Mach IV 6:30 - The Pyronauts 6:50 - The Neptunes 7:10 - The Lava Rats 7:30 - The Hypnotic IV 7:50 - Splashback 8:10 - The Sub-Mersians 8:30 - Pollo Del Mar 8:50 - The Berzerkers 9:10 - Surf Jam???
	The Battle of the Surfing Bands Benefit CD The bands have contributed a song for a CD to benefit KFJC. The CD will be avialable at the show, and from KFJC. 1 The Aquamarines Pacifica Unreleased demo 2 The Mach IV Wonderful Land Live in the Pit at KFJC 3 Pollo Del MarTake Me Out to the Ballgame Unreleased demo 4 The Pyronauts Iron Board from their CD “Meet” 5 The Skegs Bad Czeck Unreleased demo 6 Splashback First Wave from their CD “Changing Tides” 7 Surf Cinema Bullfight from their Self Titled CD 8 The Surf-Liners Linguini from their CD “Where’s the Surf?” 9 The Tube Sharks Ghostrider Unreleased demo 10 The Hypnotic IV High Octane from their CD “Go Baby Go” 11 The Corsairs High Compression Unreleased demo 12 The Berzerkers XX from a forthcoming Richie Podolar Tribute 13 The Neptunes Talking to Trees from their CD “People of Earth, We Are” 14 The Lava Rats Naughty Pine from the CD “Surfing the Magma” 15 The Sub-Mersians Left Turn on Arrow Only from a forthcoming Davie Allan Tribute Guaranteed not to be the final song order!
Some important Links: KFJC Radio The Hotel Utah Phil Dirt's Reverb Central note: There is a Giants game on June 20. This may affect traffic around the Hotel Utah. The game starts at 1 and should be over by 4.