E's Surf Report

Nice quiver:

better quiver

Damn it J, that is a nice quiver. Much better then mine.

e-can you compare the Fender Concert to the Super 60. I have a 60 that I used as a backup when my Music Man died. I never really liked it and now I'm debating the merits of repairing the Music Man which has way more power than I need vs. getting a new amp.

Regarding OB...sheesh! On the bright side, "summer" is almost gone.

OB: still small but the foggy onshores have bumped it up. Impossible to tell how rideable it is so in the name of science I'm off to collect more data. Should really be continuing other backlogged work but am willing to make this sacrifice for the greater good ;)

I hit it for awhile Friday after work (got out a bit early:) and again Sat am. Friday was kinda fun around 5pm then it got wierd and closed out. Sat was just to get a workout in Pollutica. Small waves really put the legs to work. I was in Alameda on Sunday too. Not sailing though, just helping a friend pickup some new furniture. What a huge tide swing.

surfed on saturday and had a blast even though it was blowing pretty hard at 7am. there were some nice, chunky peelers coming through with some punch.

e, i got my guitar back and man does it play soo much better. all you guitar players out there, i highly recommend dropping 50 bucks and having a pro set up your guitar.

kdalle - the super 60 is a half tube, half solid-state 60 watt amp made by fender in the mid 80s. I think they only made them for a few years. Even though it's rated at 60 watts you can't play very loud at all with the clean channel (definitely not over a loud drummer). I had the volume turned up to 10 in my little cottage and it wasn't that loud. The gain channel sounds ok, and you can crank up the volume a bit more, but.. saturated, distorted sounds aren't what fender amps are known for. The amp is psysically heavy too.

The Fender Concert that i bought is in the same line as the Twin and the Pro. It's all tube. Uses a Reverb tube too. The tubes are different than the Super 60 and so is the speaker. The sound is way more full and luxurious. I couldn't turn the volume on the clean channel past 3 in my cottage without shattering windows. The Super 60 sounds thin and one-dimensional compared to the thick, textured layers of the Concert. The Super 60 has a some darker, evil undertones (not necessarily in a good way, but not horrible) while the Concert has that chimy, classy Wes Montgomery Fender warmth.

Fender super 60 - good for quiet bedroom rocking. More of a beginners amp or first tube amp. Not much clean headroom. Middle-of-the-line fender model which was dicontinued and generally frowned upon by amp afficianodos (sp?).

Fender Concert - rich, complex, warm pallate of sound. Loud as fuck while retaining clean headroom. Good for gigging and playing in a band setting. Serious amp.

shark repellant tested

By my figgering, summer surf ends anytime it dern well pleases, ranging from mid August to mid October. At least the water is warmer, and there are lots of sharks to keep us company.

rad!

e-thanks for the commentary. The Concert sounds shweet.

lerm-who set up your guitar? Long time ago I used Gary Brawer at Real Guitars but I'm always interested in word-of-mouth. I suspect hat since my guitars haven't been played for over 10 years they are in need of the full makeover including harmonic adjustment, fret polishing, etc.

e-let me know if I'm over-posting on the music thing. Sez "surf Report" at the top but when the surf sux...

guh?

kdalle - keep talkin' music! i've heard that the music man amps are great though I've never played through one.

If you like distortion look to Marshall and Mesa. If you like clean, look to Fender. There are also many many many boutique amps that have their own characterists and are totally worthy. Bogner amps are really well-regarded amongst metal-heads and such. If you have over $1500 to spend on an amp... play a bunch of the boutique amps and see what you like.

ALso keep in mind that any tube amp can be altered by re-tubing and/or changing the speaker(s). You can also have your amp "modded," which means that it's re-circuited and jiggered to produce specific sounds. Trey's Deluxe Reverb is heavily modded.

Saturday morning 8-10:30 at Ram Adnil was not bad: bumpy and windy and short-period and a little crowded, but some size and shape to work with. I tried to stay way north out of the crowds, but the wind messed it up too badly there, so I edged back to the crowd and found it very doable. Some folks were getting lots of decent rides; I got a few, including one really fun right that gave me a steep wall for a few turns. I think I may have seen our own Bruce sitting at the lot wall early on?

kaiser on a left
seals like to play hide and seek
bouys don't know it all

Just got out of a staff meeting. One of my coworkers is big into fishing. He was tuna fishing off santa cruz over the weekend and saw two great whites within 100 yards of the line up. No question- got a good look at the dorsal and the rest. Fark! We know they are out there, but sure seems like more sightings this year.

man.. my girl just got her 40 gig ipod to use while she's in Europe for 4 months. She leaves 3 days after she comes back from maui for 10 days, she left today. low man on the totem pole... Anyone else have an ipizzel? I can't get one because my mac is too old. screw apple for that one. Went to SFMOMA this weekend and checked out the exhibits. Really good stuff going on right now.

Hey, Lizard - fishing for tuna within 100 yards of one of the SC line ups? You may want to double check that source for accuracy. Albacore are out there right now, but more like 5 - 20 miles offshore.

Salmon would be a different story. Guys have actually been catching them off the Pacifica Pier and right outside the surfzone.

http://www.subservientpresident.net

arctic national wildlife refuge

speaking of sharks...i surfed bobo a couple of times last week and was definitely feeling the spook factor. Waves were small and gutless for the most part and I got to wondering if the risk/reward ratio was swinging a little to far to the risk side. that shark repellent does look promising, no?

I saw 10 Great White Man Eating Sharks this Saturday at Ocean Beach. They swam around and swallowed those little fishing boats WHOLE! It's not safe out there, we're going to need a bigger boat!

On the more serious side, sharks are out there EVERY YEAR, this crap is nothing new, get over it. We live in waters that are "shark infested", and you still have a better chance of being run over walking across the Great Highway than you do of being attacked by a shark.

Until your number is up, live on. Anything you say or have done that makes you think you are safer in the water is bullshit! It's like trying to save yourself from lightning. Its highly unlikely to happen, but if it does the shark is in charge, and not you. I can't even handle a 40 lb seal attacking me in the surf zone, how is it possible to handle a 1000 pound shark!

Now, can we get back to talking about chord progressions?

enjoying the benefits of desktop computing power.

yahoo launchcast is offering steady streams of gregory issacs, alpha blondy, augustus pablo and all the other rootsman....some bob, some steele pulse, some toots...yu can almost see a smoke cloud above me.

not enjoying the benefits of getting a check and being able to buy new boards with nothing to ride them on.

"Now you've done it, you piss-ant. Stop and rig a goddam tinker toy to my gear. Let the bastard fight the keg for a while. He can't stay down with that on."

My current favourite is IIm to VII.

that is a SICK! little skate park E!

Chunky monkey! OB: like riding over clusters of grapenuts. Waist , rare shoulder high breakfast cereal.

Sharks...sharks! Hey, since surfing is getting so crowded maybe the whiteys are mistaking the popular spots for new seal rookeries.
[Kidding...]

I took my gal out to lindy sunday for her first ever surf. She was a champ- it was ugly and cold and the surf wasn't prime for learning, but when we got out all she wanted to know was when we were going next. Sweet!

Going back to a thread from last week, anyone ever pull off the "turn-girlfriend-into-surfer" technique for dealing with the ever-present surfing/relationship tension?

Good thing I pissed after my session just south of Ano on Saturday! I love pulling the ole HEATER in the wettie and then wondering if mr. longtooth just caught a sniff and is doubling-back.

I am with Blakestah on the shark tip; it is what it is. If your number is called, well, good luck. Good thing the waves have been about 2 ft. so you can figure the water depth is no more then 4 ft. and I highly doubt a GW has any motivation to be lurking in 4 ft. of water about to eat any of our scrawny-asses. But, if you saw a GW @ Lindy, good for you. I don't really need to know about it!

Saturday, there was some south showing south of Ano. Got some waves w/ 3to5. Sunday, not as much going on. Weak dribblers in SMC proper, south of Devil's Slide.

I can attest that this summer has been one of the worst I have had at OB. Of the 15-20 sessions/month I usually get, very few of those have been at OB this summer. Let's hope late August/September begins to delivery.....

i haven;t surfed the beach in close to a month. that's about the longest stretch i can remember.

i love the little seals. the cute little grey seals. laying in the sun on the exposed reef at low tide. just when they lazily roll into the cool water for a quick dip..........that's when i strike.

Three barrels? He can't stay down, not with three barrels!

Come on, Blakestah. Don't let rational thought and solid statistical evidence interfere with fear mongering and gossip! We're bored here at work and need something to keep our juices flowing!

Actually, if people really knew the probability of injury or death from different sources they wouldn't drive PCH in the fog or walk through the Mission on weekends.

i like fatty bowls. even behind certain santa cruz junior high schools. pretty much wherever is cool with me. Definitely in studio 64 of Secret Studios after work today. Definitely at my house before running down for a surf at the beach around 6pm on a blowy saturday afternooon. But.. lately.. not at all before around 6pm. Too soon and i'm worthless come evening time.

nice on the mesa wrestler.. those things fucking GROWL.

E, you must make the bowl-coffee combo a more central part of your daily existance. no more worrying about being "worthless come evening time."

I remember an old climbing partner (a fucking beast of a man) who once gave me the following recipe: "Line up 2 joints, 4 shots of jager, and 3 shots of espresso. Consume all in the space of 5 minutes. Following that, there will be a period of 23 & 1/2 minutes when you will be able to climb anything." I think it applies to most activities. Time frame may vary according to metabolic rate.

That photo is not in SC. This one is in SC. Hitting the hip less traveled.

I loved fatty bowls when i lived in the city.

I loved riding home to our Haight apt. on the 21 Hayes, find the dude on a *&#*&* street, pay him a 50, still in my i-banker suit, run home, enjoy a fresh fatty bowl, throw on my flips then...run/walk/stroll/hop down to the ocean thru the Park...or sit on my roof with some buds and buds listenin' to Eek A Mouse...or play a game or 3 of hoops in the 'handle... or cruise Amoeba's vast Reggae section...or skate down some sketchy Cole Valley hill... or just get lost in the fog and walkman tunes in my head.

Not many places where you can buy a bag of kind in a suit on a street and be stoked.

Ahhhh, i miss SF.

That SC Bowl shot reminds me of high school days...oh how I miss eating shit in the big bowl trying to sprack higher than I should have.

I'd always change to my grunge jacket and jeans before buying a sack. Always a little freaked out about getting stabbed, so I wanted to blend in a bit. Pot makes me a little paranoid and kind of sets off my schitzoprehnia a bit. I wish my head was stable enough to handle it cuz it gets me stoked to do some strange but fun things.

Is derby still around? With all these super skateparks around it seems so tiny now. But derby was the shit back then. I loved getting hung up on one wall and slamming right on the bottom or the other wall. Tight transitions baby.

About 30% of the time they would try to sell me oregano.
"Ahhh, just put this shit in your pocket and give me the money" c'mon! I know that Redman lyric, "sell white kids oregano and then we dassshhhh"

Never got Oregano, in fact 99% of the time it was the best of the best. Like Amsterdam, I tried the whole collage of N.Cal weed.

Shit, now you got me thinking about it. Not good for us fuckups.

This surfey-skatepark is a blast during the summer slumber. Not too far in sunny Palo Alto. Not too crowded nowadays either

After work at SC Biotech (back in 98), which is on the other side of the fence, it was straight to Natural Bridges for a surf check and a toke, and then to Derby for a few runs. What a great way to warm up for a surf!

e, like the guitar talk sorry reminiscing of old Haight tales but the surf is way down....

yeah medley, you did get the best of the best, most of those kids came straight down from Humboldt. i bought some one day and the black guy said you know it is crakalatin' right? i acted like i knew and said yeah. me and a buddy were walking around upper haight for several hours after that, just flyin', thought we were okay to go down tot he Mad Dog in the Fog bar for that trivial pursuit night and we ended up running out of there after seeing those walls moving like waves. wow.

but don't be a fuckup on it. do your shit and then partake and enjoy.....

Wanted: 8' or so foamer for a beginner. Can be in total shit-shape, don't matter. And a small woman's wetsuit (size 2). Can anyone help?

I'm totally functional on it, actually have more energy and motivation it's just, uhh... I get messages from dog and other skitzo symptoms. Don't get me wrong, weeds a gift, it's just my mushy head can't deal all the time.

Here's my favorite norcal skatepark: Santa Rosa

DISCLAIMER: that pic of the Palo Alto skatepark is deceiving! It is slippery as all hell with all the paint from the graffitti etc. No coping either. Don't get me wrong, it is fun to fuck around on, I've seen guys kill it there but drive another 15 minutes south to Sunnyvale and there you have a park that will keep you happy for a long time. Get there at 8:00am on the weekends and you can have it with 6 other people tops usually. That is all.

Quint tosses Brody the hand pump, then picks up his M-1, and
checks the load.

HOOPER
He's heading under -- !

QUINT
No way! He can't!

The barrels approaching the boat dip below the surface, one
-- two -- three.

BRODY
Where'd he go?

Brody looks around. Hooper on the flying bridge searching
in all directions. Quint is looking more appalled every
second.

QUINT
He can't stay down with three
barrels on him! Where is he?!

BRODY
Have you ever had one do this?

QUINT
No!

I used to ditch High School, smoke em and skate derby, then hit up the West Side breaks. The little park definitly is engraved in my surf style and many of the WS crew.

I think derby answers the question of why the WS guys can pull airs and surf the big stuff.

BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDUELED PROGRAMMING
Brucey's big brother

kdalle. i took it to Haight Ashbury Music. they did a good job. how wuz gary brawer?

man, all this talk makes me want to go home, smoke a bowl and skate. unfortunately, i get the noids too.

Vans Milpitas is pretty sick too. I can't skate the big pool worth shit, but some rippers can tear it up

Derby's transitions are super tight...it's a challenge to ride the snake. It was originally designed for banana boards, so no wonder!? After they installed the sidewalk it became much easier to pump up the snake and hit the hip at the top. Used to see Rat's brother there on a semi-regular basis.

anyone remember Buena Vista pool?
http://www.concussion.org/new_site/videos/buena.html

cool skate talk.. The last dude (brown hair, blue shirt) in the video above has awesome, smooth style.

nice on the sc biotech, natty bridges, doobage, derby combo "as"! damn.. nice lifestyle. sounds like something Jocular is brewing up. cool photos too.. is that you?

Buena Pool- Spring '92, a fresh NY trannie- gets driven to the legendary Buena V Pool for his intial skate experience.
Gets to pool, unsuspecting, green as green can get. Pool is thankfully empty. Gets to edge. feet soak thru socks, eyes sting with sweat.Looks to buddies for some kind of guidance...
Imba:"Just drop in"
Adam:"Yeah-just drop"
NY trannie:"What the #@#$ is drop in"
Needless to say, I started in the bottom after one,painful drop attempt.
Props to those who choose Drop on the concreteness- youallgot ballz.
I stuck to the street from then out.

grom schedule: 8/2/79
surf
skate buena or local ramps
surf

Grown schedule: 8/2/04
7am con call
9am pipeline meeting
10:30am another con call
1pm: email and calls
3pm: all hands meeting
3:30 1:1 w/ boss
4pm: cover my ass
5pm: get outta here

Yeah steama pool skating is the big wave riding of skateboarding. Those guys are nuts. Usually pool transitions are so tight that if you fall you hit the bottom. From 6-10' that is certain death.

That's me. Lived in eastside SC for 15 years before moving to SF in 2001. Nice quality of life- after SC Biotech, worked for O'Neill for three years, rode bike to work, surfed at lunch.

Soon enough...

Nice to see the vans' park- the bowl in question is so fun... trashed my wrist more than a year ago hanging up a frontside air- still hurts! I haven't skated the YBC bowl yet as I am still trying to kill the stomach flu viruses I've been hosting. Any takers want to check a session? I posted my e-mail last week for a sander for sale. If you are interested, drop me a line. Just clued some friends back home in on a pool I discovered while searching the WWW for Honolulu real estate. Computers are great!

Picked up a beautiful (machine made) Arakawa mmini-gun for the winter. Come on surf!

I haven't given a live music report in a while, so it's time...

The Hives killed it at the Fillmore last night. I don't think that I've ever seen a band with that much energy consume the space with tendrils of living sound. The crowd was pogo-ing, singer was drunk/high/fun and band was super tight. And the opening band, the all-girl Sahara Hotnights, have a sexy lead singer. Good times.

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Hey Lars::

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

T-blood, how's it hanging in the cube staring at this thing all the live long day ?. Hey, I be drinking a little extras for ya cuz I knows you be hurtin'. Gary Irons surfs a lot like the Vibestah ova here huh?!! - 'um like oh yeah.
HUGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BALLLLLLLLLLLLLLS.
-cant touch this get over it already but ______________sh_she___sheeeeeeet it beens o'so shittyso so sooooooooo Nothing new really ANYWAY, duhhhhhhhhhh.
Soon the mass invasion!!!!! Coming soon to YOUR neighborhood-------YEEEEEEEEEHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BAMMMMMMMMM.
You'all have a good night. Work.
p.s. niceness.

I love you Agnes

In that last pic is that a jet ski on the wave?

Wise is fine by me - they are a good example of a business that works well, they care about their customers, and are good guys. Bob Wise replaced a Wise leash I snapped 5-6 years after I got it, and handled free of charge an O'Neill wetsuit repair even though I couldn't find the receipt.

Aqua is only a year or two in, but are also good guys, I like them too.

SF Surfshop is in the Avenues, and the only place to get a custom board, or the coolest hoodies and beanies in town.

Yes Big Valley Bob, what the f++k do you want?
Please don't bug me when I'm in my "I can barley scrape rent, been laid off from too many shitty jobs, houses around here are way the f uck overpriced, everybody but me easily aquires tons of money, the weather and surf is shitty again" mood.

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