SUNDOG, Kansas City's premier instrumental rock band, is booking gigs for 2013. This professional three-piece group has been playing KC's best music venues and special events for 15 years: Uptown Theatre, Kansas Speedway, Crossroad's First Fridays, Crown Center Friday Concerts, Good Guy's Car Show, Wichita Art Museum, Power Plant Brew Pub, Charity Events. Not your average cover band. If you're looking for something completely different for your next event, check out SUNDOG.

Three-plus hours of reverb-drippin', guitar-driven, surf-inspired instrumental rock... think soundtrack to Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. If you like Dick Dale, Los Straitjackets, The Mermen, Link Wray or even The Ventures... you'll love SUNDOG.  (All of the above information is completely true, what follows should be taken at face value - and we wear masks.)

On Friday, June 14th Sundog will play at the Wichita Art Museum and Tallgrass Film Festival for a hip night to kick off the summer and inaugurate the museum's new outdoor terrace. Sundog starts the night and sets the tone with our own brand of reverb-drippin', guitar-driven mayhem.  OK, so we'll tone down the mayhem and crank up the surf. Bring your lawn chair, and we'll line up the gourmet food trucks. At dusk, the 1966 cult classic and epic surf movie The Endless Summer will screen. Come out for a great community get-together to celebrate summer fun.

Sundog Pics

Photo by John4KC

Photo by John4KC

Thanks to John4KC for this great photo

Sundog Tsunami Hits the Copaken Stage

Steve & Bryan

Rick

Sundog's Tiki Gods of Rhythm

Sundog received the Judges and People's Choice Awards at the KC Arts Council Show

        If you have a good photo of the band, email it to PICS@SUNDOGSURF.COM

Kill Devil Club November 1 2012

Bryan on the Slingerland

Steve, Bryan, Rick

Athenaeum

Not sure why Bryan gets to sit in front.

Fun First Friday Photos

In the 112 degree heat of a Kansas City summer, Sundog sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream getting wasted in the heat, hidding on the backstreets at 18th & Baltimore playing for crowds at another First Friday event.  As always, all apologies to the families with children who were traumatized and thanks to the girls in their summer clothes.

Sundog is working on a tribute CD dedicated to Yorgi, the master of the konservnaya banka – a deceptively simple folk instrument fashioned from a tin can, a stick, and a single string. 

Yorgi is known to untold dozens of people for his 35 classic albums released on Clubbo Records.  "Uncovering these old songs for a CD of covers was way easier than writing our own music,"  says Sundog bassist Steve "Dr. 360" Svancara. 

"I've got everything ready for us to start recording at Sundog Studios"  boasts Butch Herrman, Sundog's drummer.  "Well, except for clearing it with the authorities. We don't want any of that trouble like last time."

Guitarist, Rick "Manos" Bernauer, is excited about the new project. "I think this will really show what we can do with our instruments. After all, Yorgi played it all on 1 string - we've got like 9 or 10 times that, plus drums."




The band is also planning a cover of the Clubbo Records recurring favorite "Yeah Yeah No No No."

"It will be based on the '65 version by Marilyn Kaye - not the '73 version which is total crap," says Rick. "But Butch does like the drum sounds from the 1985 version."

Click here to read an excerpt from the article in February's edition.

Sundog is preparing for a European tour and summer dates with OzzFest, Lollapalooza, and Lilith Fair. No European dates have been scheduled and no one has asked them to play at any of the festivals, but the band likes to be prepared.

Created by Sundog's own graphic wizard - Steve "Dr. 360" Svancara

Thanks to everyone who surfed the crowd with Sundog at the Kansas City First Friday event.  Special thanks to the fine ladies who showed everyone how to do the Twist in proper style.  All apologies to the nice family - we didn't mean to scare your kids. (There shouldn't be any permanent psychological damage that they won't grow out of in a year or two.) 

Special note to the guy who kept calling out asking us to play something by Slayer - Dude, we're a surf band!

Hey, see if you can get them to drop the charges.  I'm sure there's not enough evidence.