Folks,
	I'm about to send Dave Black a tape of suitable Bus music and
it will include selections by The Mermen- psychedelic surf sound, all
instrumentals, best in the world at it, imho. The good news is, they
will be coming to a town near you, soon, if you live anywhere near the
following places! I get nothing out of this except the joy of knowing
that you might get to hear "Honeybomb" or "Ocean Beach" or "The Whales
Are Coming And Boy Are They Pissed" (starts off as Misserlou, becomes
Paint It Black, then Hava Nagila and finally America (from West Side Story))
live. You might want to bring ear plugs if you're going to be close
to the stage- they get feedback the old fashioned way :-)

	They're playing Saturday night in San Francisco, their web page
has some cool posters and the music they play is most appropriate for
VW Buses of all vintages, EuroVans too.

	Cheers!
	Bill

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>From mermen@crl.com Fri Apr  7 14:09:03 1995

Hi Bill,

we'll do two sets at the Paradise at 10pm and midnight more or less.

see you there!

allen
Best regards,

Allen Whitman, bass for The Mermen 
WWW: http://www.iuma.com/~mermen/
(415)731-2944
3100 Vicente St., #202
San Francisco, CA  94116

Enclosure: current itinerary-distribution  [1,019 bytes]
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Most recent itinerary for The Mermen (as of 4/6/95)
> = confirmed show

>4/8 * Paradise Lounge - San Francisco, CA

>4/14 * Brew & Beats - Arcata, CA

>4/22 * Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO
4/23 * a place in - Denver, CO
4/25 * Lounge Ax - Chicago, IL
>4/26 * a club in - Binghamton, NY
>4/28 * Maine Univ. "Bumstock" - Orono, ME
>4/29 * The Ratt - Boston, MA
>4/30 * Granny Killam's - Portland, ME
>5/1 * Wetlands - New York, NY
5/2 * under acme - New York, NY
>5/3 * Ocean Mist - Matunuck, RI
5/4 * ? - Hoboken, NJ
>5/5 * 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
>5/6 * Star Bar - Atlanta, GA
5/9 * Blue Note - St Louis, MO
5/10 * Cicero's - St Louis, MO
5/11 * Liberty Lunch - Austin, TX
>5/13 * The Dingo - Albuquerque, NM
5/14 * The Dingo - Albuquerque, NM

>5/19 * Transmission Theatre - San Francisco, CA
5/26 * Party - coastguard station at the foot of the GG bridge
>6/14 * Esalen, - Big Sur, CA
>6/17 * Blue Water - Tahoe City, CA
>6/21 * Making Waves - San Francisco, CA
>9/2 * The Burning Man Festival - Black Rock Desert, NV

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