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Sea Devils

Surf monsters from Brooklyn!

About Me

Originally formed in 1999 as an eclectic cover band playing punk, rockabilly, and surf instrumentals, the Sea Devils quickly turned their attention exclusively to traditional surf. After several years of spectacularly successful shows in its adopted neighborhood of Williamsburg/Greenpoint, the group temporarily disbanded, reforming briefly with some personnel changes as the Shinto Kings. When the band found itself with three out of four of the original members, the name was changed back to the Sea Devils, and the group began to compose original numbers that stretch the definitions of the oft-hyphenated genre. The ever-trendy Billyburgers are proving difficult to woo back into the clubs, however, and the band has begun looking farther afield for its fan base, with a Myspace presence part of its strategy to take its fun-loving but edgy sound worldwide. An album is in the works. SEA DEVILS were mighty tickled to have been mentioned in the NY PRESS's October 2, 2001 Best of Manhattan Issue under BEST EXCLUSION OF LOCAL MUSIC: http://www.nypress.com/14/40/news&columns/5.cfm

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/11/2006
Band Website: This is it!
Band Members: Todd Martin, drums; Michael Sandlin, guitar; Andrew Wendel, guitar; Martin Tune, bass. Dan Habu, drummer emeritus
Influences: The Ventures, The Shadows, PJ and the Galaxies, Challengers, Champs, Television, Jimmy Bryant, Bob Wills, Booker T and the MG's, The Who, Dick Dale, Henry Mancini, Duke Ellington, Dead Kennedys, Stravinsky, Buck Owens, James Burton, Joe Maphis, Cliff Gallup, Jerry Cole, Glen Campbell, Burt Bacharach, Link Wray, Pre-Revolver Beatles, Wes Montgomery, Herb Alpert, Lalo Schifrin, Les Paul, Chuck Berry, Chet Atkins, Duane Eddy, Phil Baugh, Ennio Morricone.
Sounds Like: The Ventures Live in Japan but faster
Type of Label: None

My Blog

A little status update, and a little sentimentality

It's been a while already, and I'm reluctant to address it, but here goes: We've parted ways with our original drummer, Dan Habu. For a long time Dan was something of a disciplinarian and teacher fo...
Posted by Sea Devils on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:15:00 PST

An eventful week

The last seven days have been good to the Sea Devils and yours truly. A marathon recording session on Saturday produced three stellar new tunes, all mixed and mastered. A(n) heroic effort to get the s...
Posted by Sea Devils on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:08:00 PST

Just because our songs have no words, that doesn't mean we don't have anything to say

We haven't been playing out recently. We haven't been recording. We don't have new photos. Thus, the blog becomes the only way to add new content to our page. I'm not planning to philosophise at great...
Posted by Sea Devils on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:22:00 PST