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Surf Guitar Villains

About Me

The Surf Guitar Villains have been kicking around since 2001 -- the band's core has relocated to Portland, Austin and Phoenix. The sound is somewhat retrograde,, with some Hendrix, some Dick Dale, some Dylan, some surf, some metal, some folk -- all raw and villainous ! Most material is original, and all of it is, well, we think pretty cool. We welcome you to our site -- for our fans and friends we have a few sample tunes ...{}I made this myspace background at

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Member Since: 20/02/2007
Band Website: www.spudleysound.com
Band Members: Kahuna : Bill Swortwood ( billiam villain) Rumble and Grind Henry Wong (Mr. Henry) Ascended Master of Time:Bobby Prechtl (bobby-san) Wingmen: Jerimy "ladies Man" Spencer, Glenn Ducusin, Larry Huntley, Steve Carver, and the flaming Ken Drottar
Influences: In no particular order - White Stripes, Tool, SRV, Police. Dire Straits, Beatles, Bowie, King Crimson, Elvis Costello, Dick Dale, Beach Boys, Dylan, lotsa stuff...
Sounds Like: Sounds like us, we hope. Think somewhere in the Lou Reed/Hendrix/Ramones/Dylan/Mott the Hoople/Dick Dale/Crazy Horse/Garage-Groove-Punk-Surf-Stripes mix. Music with a quirky sense of humor that is meant to enjoy... Punk surf retro garage rock. That's us.
Record Label: Spudley Sound
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Nope, no explaining....

About 1971 Epic Records released to the world "The Yardbirds Live featuring Jimmy Page". Page was incensed, and sued to have it pulled from the shelves -- as he thought it was not a good show of the w...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:39:00 GMT

Playing Woofstock

Glenn scored a nifty play date, while billiam has been recovering from surgery. Glenn -- awesome. An outdoors event, no less. This will be pretty cool to do.Here is the skinny from the organizers :Woo...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:14:00 GMT

This Years Model

An album is a statement - a capture of a musical idea or a moment in time. A band is a living creature. The current living creature is mine ... though I did not think of it that way at first. We are g...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:58:00 GMT

Gigs, work and Life

Ahhh ... competition.  The Villains has a short 20 minute show in Chandler for an originals band. We did fine -- the judges were more punk gravitated, but it was good to get out and play and get some ...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:43:00 GMT

New EP in the works

Surf Guitar Villains were always intended to be more of a jam band than "play the samer song the same way" band. As such a group we have started to transition in practice to just playing and jamming a...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:55:00 GMT

The Band is Locked and Loaded

Surf Guitar Villains has made the transition from a recording project to a band. Our first step was to go from practices and open mikes to our first opening gig for money.  The first show had rough sp...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:10:00 GMT

Blackbird first set

The first real incarnation of the band to play live here in Queen Creek.Bobby was solid, even coming in cold.Henry was likewise.Medley - Secret Agent Man - Mr Mystery ManIsland DreamLet's Play HouseWa...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:31:00 GMT

The one hour set

SGV 1 hour setSecret Agent ManMystery Man Jenny's Gotta GoSultans of SurfRetro AmericanBarcelonaSweet Jane (*)Cheap Guitar Island DreamGeronimo's Last Wipeout (*)BLACK SURFLET's Play House Radio Was...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:11:00 GMT

Open Mike 2

Have Alan and Henry in the wings. Sounds like we will be opening for some bands in Tempesoon. That being said, this week the rest of the band was out of town. I did a sloppy set at Blackbird Music nea...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:11:00 GMT

Getting the airship off the ground

A few weeks ago my drummer buddy Dan lost his job here. He moved wife and kids to Florida, and SGV was out their drummer. Mind you, we just started to practice with the new lineup. But Dan was special...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 19:43:00 GMT