The Duo-Tones "Surf Music Unplugged" 2001

Compares favorably with acoustic guitar outfits such as the L.A. Guitar Quartet. The playing is top notch and raises the bar a bit for all other guitarists (of) the surf instrumental tradition. If you like acoustic guitars, surf music and easy-on-the-ears picking, this record will be highly rewarding. - JOHN BLAIR, DISCOVERIES mag Gil Orr and I got casually acquainted at shows our bands played together in the early ‘90s. (He had been playing for many years with the Chantays and I had been with the Surfaris since 1990.) When we chanced into a jam session together in around 1995, we discovered that we must have been cut from the same cloth! As the last two men left standing after hours of jamming, we were fully energized, firing licks back and forth and trading leads—each of us just as happy to be playing good, solid rhythm behind the other guy as we were to be playing lead. I don’t need to tell you that in Gil I had found one of the truly great rhythm (as well as lead) players—you’ll hear that for yourself on this CD. And it’s no wonder that ever since that jam session, we have continued to play together and develop our "duo" approach to this music.
With this album, we have chosen the all-acoustic route to highlight the intricacies of dual-guitar interplay that lie at the root of the surf-instrumental genre; in the process, we hope to bring some long-overdue attention to the lost art of rhythm guitar.  — PJtrax: