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• Halloween '08 with KELP

  by KELP November 4, 2008
  Following our Trick or Treat run with the kids, we passed our younguns' off to the wives and proceeded to The Mercury Lounge in Goleta, CA. A small hidden club (and they like it that way), the theme of the night was Alice In Wonderland. Our pretty host dressed as Alice had decorated the club with c...

• Surf Guitar From Belgium

  by KELP August 31, 2008
  All the way from the planet Earth's little toe, Belgium, comes one of the most interesting sounding Surf bands to hit the scene in a long time. I'm talking about Los Venturas. KELP had the good fortune of playing a show with these young lads last night at the Mercury Lounge in Goleta, CA. It turned ...

• Playing On A Busy Street Corner 06/05/08

  by KELP June 7, 2008
  This past Thursday KELP pwas asked by the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization to perform for an event called First Thursdays. It's supposed to be an arts and music event held at different locations in the downtown area on State Street. State Street is the "main drag" of SB where all of the best pla...

• KELP Performs At UCSB Beach Event!

  by KELP April 26, 2008
  The campus at UCSB in Santa Barbara, CA is by far the most beautiful campus setting in the world. Of course, I can only compare it to the college I went to in Brookings, SD ...home of the fighting Jackrabbits. Last night Kelp was asked to play an event at a beach called Depressions - great surf spo...

• Surfrider Benefit - Bikinis and Martinis

  by KELP January 14, 2008
  The Santa Barbara Surfrider Foundation just held it's first annual Bikinis and Martinis benefit. We of course lept at the opportunity to play for an event that had two of our favorite things in the title! It was held at an art museum that was hosting an exhibition of surf inspired artwork. When we a...

• KELP Invades The Santa Barbara Christmas Parade

  by KELP December 10, 2007
  For the past 31 years, Santa Barbara has hosted the Christmas Parade on State Street. Pretty much the same fare every year. Marching bands, the mayor waving at the minions, some balloons, kids walking with their youth groups and Santa Clause Trailing behind at the end. Kelp has been putting together...

• Halloween Party '07

  by KELP October 30, 2007
  Every year we end up playing at a couple of Halloween parties. Sometimes it's at a club. Occasionally we play for a house party. Unless you know the hosts intimately, you never know what it's going to be like. Sometimes it can be extremely odd. This happened to be the case this year. We were asked ...

• KELP returns to the studio!

  by KELP October 4, 2007
  Kelp is preparing to go back into the studio to finish the new CD "Hello, Mr. Whaleshark!" Recording will take place at 7 South Studios. We recorded the Clash song "White Riot" a couple years ago for a Clash tribute CD at 7 South. The price is right and it's local. Can't beat that. Here's a list of ...

• KELP on upcoming surf video!

  by KELP October 4, 2007
  This just in... A DJ from the #1 radio station in Santa Barbara just contacted us and asked us to provide some tracks for a new surfing video. Kelp along with 5 other bands will be featured on the video. That's as much as we can say right now. Several years ago, Kelp provided tracks for three surfin...

• The Sandcastle Festival - 9/15/07

  by KELP September 16, 2007
  Being categorized as a "surf" band allows us to play the occasional festival during the summer. For the second year we have been invited to play the Santa Barbara Sandcastle Festival. What could be more fun than carrying your gear across the sand on a hot summer day? Actually, it was a lot of fun. A...

• Sept. 9, 2007 - Paul "Pablo" Fritz birthday bash

  by KELP September 10, 2007
  Just returned home following a birthday party for Kelp guitarist Paul Fritz (aka Pablo Fleece) We dined on carnitas, guac, beer and traunia (geek alert: traunia is the name of the drink the alien offerend Kirk and crew in the Trek episode "The Corbonite Maneuver". He offers it saying "this is trau...

• Sept 5th 2007 or 4th of July Memories from 2006

  by KELP September 6, 2007
  State Street - 4th of July 2006 in Santa Barbara, CA. That's Sam Frankeberger dead center, drummer for Kelp. Sam started Kelp with myself and Paul in a guest house I was living in back in '95 overlooking Rincon Point, a famous surfing spot in California. Sam split for personal reasons and was later ...