It's been 10 years since my first Surfguitar101 Festival/Convention, which is not to say that this was my tenth, but I haven't missed one yet. While last year's was fantastic, the sting of two high-profile foreign bands dropping off due to Trump's immigration nonsense forced the event into safe mode this year -- all American bands, and reverting from Long Beach's Golden Sails hotel to the Garden Grove, CA Elks Lodge location last used the year before I first attended. That said, it wasn't that much of a backpedal -- Still a three-day weekender with a secondary stage, and with some very heavy-hitting bands on the bill, like former headliners The Bomboras and The Boss Martians in addition to top-tier gets Los Straitjackets and Slacktone.
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Les Agamemnonz are one of the most unique and special bands in surf music, and if I were to choose one word to sum them up, it would be playful. If you see them live, you'll get it, dressed in classic-era tunics, barefoot, perhaps with a fun gimmick like a Trojan horse. They bounce around and look like they're having a ball. But they're also playful in a sense that they toy with the "rules" and expectations of this genre, perhaps a little bit more with each release, and the results are almost always excellent.
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