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The Sixty and Surfin’ CD and video set is available for a limited time with a donation of $45.00 or more. Photo by Magali Gauthier, Ferenc Dobronyi shows an image of himself with The Tomorrowmen in concert in Italy at his home in Corta Madera on Oct. 21, 2019. Artist Shirt, Fundraiser Gifts, Latest and Greatest, KFJC Artist Shirt (classic fit) for 2020$45.00, Our popular series of T-Shirts featuring designs by some of today’s top underground artists continues. "I don't think it ever will appeal to a larger audience because it doesn't have vocals," he said. There's a recommended $20 donation to benefit KFJC at the door, and parking is $3. Print Edition/Archives All rights reserved.

Photo by Magali Gauthier, Ferenc Dobronyi's Fender Jazzmaster lays across old promotional concert posters in Corta Madera on Oct. 21, 2019.

Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. Still, surf music seems to have lasting power. Obituaries, Send News Tips In a recent interview on KFJC, Surfaris guitarist Bob Berryhill said the breakout hit was actually completely improvised, done on the spot after the recording engineer -- who Berryhill described as an ex-Marine who looked like a leprechaun -- told the band of 15-year-old kids that they needed to figure out a B-side song on the spot. He got into KFJC's surf show, then hosted by DJ Phil Dirt, building a relationship that started with trading tapes and eventually led to big surf shows hosted in lecture halls at Foothill College.

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The song was essentially a drum solo with a marching band cadence. Every Saturday night when the clock strikes 8 p.m., the Bay Area radio waves are drenched with a torrent of heavy reverberating guitars and powerful drum beats evocative of crashing waves, seaweed, sand and bubbling sea foam.It's been a staple of local radio station KFJC's weekend programming for decades, broadcasting the mostly underground genre of surf music that has proliferated in the Bay Area. Having been drawn to the station as a child, it quickly became a fiendish sanctuary to the bleak aural landscape of the commercial radio of his youth and he attests that having 89.7 FM plant its seditious seed in the sickly yet pliable soil of his mind would corrupt him fundamentally to his, and ultimately, the world’s benefit. We pray you’ll be our next target. 9/19/2019   The show will include the Mermen, Pollo Del Mar, Insect Surfers, The Berzerkers and Glasgow Tiki Shakers.

Twenty two years sounds like a long time but it will fly by if you are listening to great music.

The Motherlode Package is available as our thanks for your generous donation of $500.00 or more. A big list of surf jokes! The song was essentially a drum solo with a marching band cadence.The Bay Area surf scene bloomed in the years following the "second wave" starting in 1979 with early bands like the Mermen, based in Santa Cruz. No matter your gender or outlook on life, you too can be a Big Daddy by choosing the 2020 Big Daddy Package. Terms of Use Blogs The Bay Area surf scene bloomed in the years following the "second wave" starting in 1979 with early bands like the Mermen, based in Santa Cruz. “I didn’t know anybody and, I swear to God, I found KFJC on the radio dial and it saved my life,” Clark said. The KFJC 2017 Tote Bag is available as our thanks for your generous donation of $33.33 or more.

I've gotten compilations from bands in Greece, there are bands in Eastern Europe, some in Japan, and it's constantly evolving.

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Largely credited for keeping the surf scene thriving in the Bay Area is Ferenc Dobronyi, who plays an integral role supporting and promoting surf shows and putting on major events like the International Surf Classic at The Ritz in San Jose. Time to read: about 5 minutes. Warm your noggin with the never out of style KFJC Logo Beanie. Past battles have been held at Menlo Park's British Banker's Club and more recently San Jose's Art Boutiki.

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He got into KFJC's surf show, then hosted by DJ Phil Dirt, building a relationship that started with trading tapes and eventually led to big surf shows hosted in lecture halls at Foothill College. "The thing a lot of people don't realize is how much new surf music is going on -- there are a lot of bands," she said.

Compilation Special, Fundraiser Gifts, KFJC Battle of the Surf Bands VIII CD/Video Flash Drive: LIVE from the 8th KFJC Surf Battle, 2019$45.00. Bands recounted the role that the station has played in their lives and former KFJC DJ Phil Dirt was also on the scene with host Cousin Mary. Artist Shirt, Fundraiser Gifts. Dobronyi said he got into surf music after deciding in 1989 that he didn't want to be in a band with a singer anymore -- a useful way of avoiding drama and relieving the worry of playing over the singer. "I don't think it ever will appeal to a larger audience because it doesn't have vocals," he said. The best in live music will always come from the KFJC pit. He got into KFJC's surf show, then hosted by DJ Phil Dirt, building a relationship that started with trading tapes and eventually led to big surf shows hosted in lecture halls at Foothill College.

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The Trashmen, famous for the song Surfin' Bird, is from Minneapolis, while The Astronauts started in Boulder, Colorado.What unites these disparate bands is that they're typically instrumental -- very little vocals, if any -- and the wave-like reverberation of the guitar. "One list compiled by the website Reverb Central lists 742 bands, active and inactive, including plenty from landlocked locales.

Express / Weekend Express Promotions, About Us "Dick wanted to play powerfully and he wanted to recreate the sound of surf, what he felt out surfing, and the power inherent in surfing," Brewington said.

Bruce Brewington said he continues to perform with the Reefriders, and at a recent show got the nod from millennials reaffirming that their sound is cool.

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KFJC's upcoming event on Oct. 26 is intended to be a throwback to those old shows.

KFJC Surf CD: Sixty and Surfin’ (2020) KFJC Battle of the Surf Bands VIII (2019) KFJC Surf CD/Flash Drive: KFJC Live from the 2016 Surfer Joe Summer Festival