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  By Unsteady Freddie:		 THE TARANTINOSnyc hit the stage second. They are an outgrowth of another local band known as AFTER ONE (that band I am told is on hiatus). Their sound is a fluid intense hybrid of so many styles: basic surf, spy, spaghetti Western, soul, exotic -- wide-ranging wondrous interpretations that they make all their own. Believe it or not this was the band's FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCE (or so I was told). This was their FIRST, and they were so dynamic? Folks, watch out for this band! Members are: JOEY TARANTINO on drums, BRIAN TARANTINO on keyboard, TRICIA TARANTINO on bass, PAULIE TARANTINO on guitar (especially love the tone he got off his neat-looking jet-blue DeArmond). The band featured music from so many sources...especially loved the BOOKER T & THE MG'S "covers"; 5,6,7,8's; Morricone; Link Wray. Powerful i tell ya, powerful! Especially loved watching PAULIE crank it out.
  
   
 Don Hill's Review
 By Blue Stingraye:		 Aloha Katz & Kittens

I had a chance to catch a surf band this weekend called the TarantinosNYC (,www.tarantinosnyc.com) an off-shoot of the band After One and members of NESMA (www.nesmasurf.org). They kicked it a multi band event at Don Hills in lower Manhattan. It was my first time seeing the TarantinosNYC and Don Hills (www.donhills.com/). Don Hills is a wonderful venue, with a killer sound system and full stage complete with riser for the drum kit. It's also conveniently located off the West Side Highway with plenty of available street parking. But for those who are vehicularly-challenged, you can still take a subway there.

I arrived early enough to able to catch the opening punk band, Jersey Mayhem, in the multi-band line up. The club was full, I'd say 50 people minimum, but more were added before the Tarantinos took the stage at 9:45 pm. As the opening band was a young punk band the average age of the patron was about 21-25 yrs. old. And these kids loved the Tarantinos.

The Tarantinos are a high intensity band with a sensual sound that got the audience grooving on the dance floor before the end of the first tune. They opened with the little known Bullwinkle before shoving the set into 5th gear with the classic Out of Limits. Brian Tarantino put down his rhythm git and picked up the keyboard for some haunting harmonies in Out of Limits. But nothing could have prepared me for the they way they blasted out the Los Straightjackets Rockula. They did play one original, Fistful of Reverb, a spaghetti western with tango beat. I anxiously await more originals after getting just a small appe-teaser like this one.

And when was the last time any of you had the pleasure of taking part in a mosh pit?? Well you should have been at the show on Saturday because when the Tarantinos broke into Miserlou thats what broke out in front of the stage. And speaking of breaking, as the band closed with the Theme from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, several patrons decided to break dance on the dance floor in front of the band.

My only complaint is that the set was waaaay to short, just 30 mins., but I am hoping that they get to play longer on December 3 when they appear at the Surf Shindig at Otto's Shunken Head (http://www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/).

Aloha, mahalo

Blue StingRaye

   
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