Boom Pam

[timdicarlo]

A friend introduced me to this band a couple weeks ago and I figured you guys would enjoy it. Tuba and surf guitar make a great combination!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHoNPlkeOus

[David Richoux]

That is some fun music! There is more fine audio and stuff at their website and myspace page.

[David Richoux]

from austin360.com coverage of the music festival:

More cultural whiplash occurred when Tel Aviv-based Boom Pam took the stage. They looked kind of like a rock trio, with a tuba player instead of a bassist. He started out wearing a suit, while the guitarist wore dress pants and a sleeveless undershirt, and the shirtless drummer had on a Mexican wrestling mask — perhaps an homage to Los Straitjackets, who share Boom Pam’s affinity for surf music, if not the Mediterranean and Jewish influences.
Drummer Itamar Levi, who looked to be about 18 when he took his mask off, wailed away with punk intensity, no matter what the rhythm. Both swift-fingered Uri Brauner Kinrot, on an aqua Stratocaster, and mighty tuba player Yuval “Tubi” Zolotov handled melodic lines as well as rhythm. Most of the numbers were instrumentals, and Boom Pam’s Dick Dale cover was undoubtedly the only tune anybody recognized, but their energy and improbably successful mashing of genres kept the audience fully engaged. They seemed like the perfect band for a wedding where the bride and groom wanted to appease family members with disparate tastes, and keep all the guests dancing to avoid potential discord among incompatible in-laws.

[timdicarlo]

Any idea what kind of equipment the tuba player is using? Looks sort of like a PT-something-or-other, but I'm no authority on these matters.

[David Richoux]

Any idea what kind of equipment the tuba player is using? Looks sort of like a PT-something-or-other, but I'm no authority on these matters.

This photo from their website might help with the question - looks like a 4+2 rotor valve horn, so probably a big F, no ring on the bell, but I am not much better at that sort of ID. I do see a clip on the bell, probably for a mic.