All the great surf instrumental stuff, British Mod as well as all the early and new instro garage rock and American roots music in general.
Here are a few of our faves:
Link Wray
Dick Dale
Duane Eddy
The Paladins
The Cramps
Los Straitjackets
Slacktone
Bomboras
The Phantom Riders formed in 2000. After picking a bunch of cool cover tunes to play, we started to write our own tunes as well as develop our sound and style. Very quickly we began to play live shows with other local bands and open for established bands who came to town like The Paladins and Cadillac Angels.
Two years later with the help of fellow musician and entrepreneur Charlie Vartanian, we recorded and released our debut CD "The Phantom Riders" which has received excellent reviews both online (Phil Dirt's Reverb Central) as well as in print (VCReporter, WetSand Magazine).
Following a 2 year hiatus, The Phantom Riders are back on the scene.
I love your music soooooo much!!! You should have used YOUR MUSIC on the movie,"Surf's Up"..........your music belongs in that movie! Every time I watch that movie I think about your band and how much YOUUUUU RAWWWWWWCK!!!!!
This dog house here is mighty small
But it's sure better than no house at all
So ease it on over
Drag it on over
Move over cold dog cause a hot dog's moving in
KELP wants you to know that 1.) your beautiful! and 2.) we kick ass and want to share some new stuff with you! Thats right! Now you can watch us everyday on stage! ...wha? yep, come on over and watch some newley uploaded vids of us right here on myspace. ALSO, jaunt on down to YOUTUBE and check out even more great video footage of us!!! your thinking... "WHY AM I STILL READING THIS WHEN I CAN BE WATCHING KELP???!!!" Well now you can! So go!! GO!!!
