An endless icon

Mike Sciacca

For decades it has stood as the biography of a surfer’s soul. The 1966

film “The Endless Summer” -- it can not be duplicated, but the Huntington

Beach International Surfing Museum hopes to rejuvenate its resources by

staging a reunion concert that will reunite the musicians, surfers and

filmmakers who helped revolutionize the surfing culture.

In the same vein as its highly successful Rendezvous Ballroom Reunion

Concerts, the museum is staging “The Endless Summer”Reunion Concert.

It will take on Saturday at the Galaxy Concert Theater in Santa Ana.

“It’s too cool of an event,” said museum Chairman Bob Frederickson.

“We have a tremendous lineup scheduled for that night and anyone

interested in hearing some outstanding, classic surf music as well as

meet the people who put together this classic film, should come on out.

This is our major fund-raiser for the year and proceeds dictate what type

of exhibits and programs we will be able to bring to the museum.”

“The Endless Summer” Reunion Concert is the kickoff to the museum’s

2002, “Surfing Sundays” concert series, where surf bands from around the

nation and world will come to Huntington Beach to perform at either the

Huntington Beach Pier Amphitheater or the museum twice a month -- April

through October.

The Rendezvous Ballroom Reunion Concerts netted the museum $4,000 in

1999, and a cool $9,000 in 2000.

Frederickson is hoping to sell out the Galaxy, which has a seating

capacity of 971.

Saturday’s lineup is impressive: those scheduled to appear include

producer/director, Bruce Brown, and poster designer, John Van Hamersveld.

Surfers Robert August and Mike Hynson have been invited, but have not yet

confirmed, Frederickson said.

Then there’s the music: The Sandals, The Malibooz, featuring Walter

Egan on vocals, The Blue Hawaiians, famed kings of the L.A. club scene

and Orange County favorite, The Torquays, will be performing.

The concert really came together thanks in large part, Frederickson

said, to The Sandals, who are reuniting for the first time since 1968.

Brown had enlisted the Orange County surf band to provide the source

music used in his film, resulting in, “The Theme From The Endless

Summer,” which has become a classic standard of surf music.

Van Hamersveld’s design of the film’s poster is arguably the most

recognizable image of surf culture. He has, in fact, designed a new,

museum-quality type of poster that features the Huntington Beach

International Surfing Museum and it’s petroglyph logo. Frederickson said

he hopes that the posters will be available for sale in the near future.

“The most rewarding aspect of these concerts is that the museum has

been able to reunite surf bands who have not gotten together for a very,

very long time,” Frederickson said. “In all of these concerts that we’ve

been putting on, nobody comes in to the museum to buy a ticket without

telling us why they are buying a ticket. They reminisce about listening

years ago to these bands, of seeing the movie and how they were a part of

their lives.”

FYI

Tickets to The Endless Summer Reunion Concert can be obtained by

calling the Huntington Beach International Museum at (714) 960-3483, or the Galaxy Concert Theater at (714) 957-0600. Prices are $18 general

admission, $30 for reserved and $100 for VIP. Doors open Saturday at 4

p.m. and the concert begins at 6 p.m. The Galaxy Concert Theater is at

3503 South Harbor Blvd. in Santa Ana.