Cinco De Mayo! Cafe Posada! The Desert Island Band!

Looking for a good time on Cinco de Mayo?? Well, we have the answer! Join the Desert Island Band at Cafe Posada in Gilbert (Ray and Gilbert Roads), on Thursday, Cinco de Mayo, from 7:00-10:00PM! Owners Oscar and Susan are Parrotheads from way back, and they know how to have a good time, so you won't want to miss this! It's inside, with AC, so don't sweat that. Plus, how about some Cinco specials? Get yourself five mini-tacos for only $5.55, and wash those bad boys down with a bucket of five Coronitas or mini-Buds or Bud Lights for another $5.55. Besides that, we have Crime Dog's word that Cafe Posada has GREAT food and the very best salsa you'll find anyhere, and he's sort of an expert. In his own mind, at least!

Where else can you have this kind of good time for only $11.00?? C'mon out and join us!

Trop Meets Rock Again, April 30th, Chandler, Arizona!

        What's better than Gontang's stage charisma combined with Broward's guitar?   Nothing.

Here's a show you won't want to miss. The Desert Island Boys heartily and highly recommend you put this one on your calendar and don't get left out! Yes, it's Jerry Gontang and Mike Broward, of Stars On the Water fame, together again for an evening in Chandler.

The great thing about these two is that you just have no way of knowing where they might take you. Like all great TropRockers, they feel the music, they sense their audience, and they find the groove that combines the two. You might hear Broward and Gontang originals one moment, then Crosby, Stills, and Nash, come around to Buffett, and then rock on towards Todd Rundgren before crashing headlong into Paul Simon.

Only one thing is for sure: You are going to have a FANTASTIC time. So grab yourself a seat, a Margarita made outta shine, and hold on tight! It's going to be a helluva ride!

RSVP for details, directions, and to reserve your spot via email to Ferralli@cox.net.

The Desert Island Boys will see you there!

The DIB Teams Up With The Desert Sharks in The Race For the Cure!

Hey! Come out and hang out with the Desert Island Band at Garcia's tonight, listen to some music, have some great food, maybe a couple of ice-cold beers! We'll have a tip bucket out there, and every dime that goes into will in turn go directly to our pals down at the Desert Sharks Parrothead Club for their effort to support the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure this Sunday in Tucson.

So come on! You know you want to! Let's help the Sharks help the Komen foundation find a cure! Dig deep, Parrotheads!

See you at Garcia's, Univesity and Gilbert in Mesa, from 6:00-9:00PM!

Anybody Know A No-Rain Dance?

What's up with the weather channel girl and her perfect weather curl? Beautiful today, gorgeous tomorrow, 60 degrees and raining Saturday for the big Palapa Christening we have all so looked forward to....

O, What A Tangled Web We Weave.....

If you were listening to BeachFront Radio's live poolside broadcast from Jan and Wayne's resort-like back yard in Phoenix yesterday, you heard DJ Jeff and Crime Dog announce that The Desert Island Band's surprise "best kept secret in TropRock" debut CD release would be on Tuesday. DJ Jeff even posted a photo (above) of the CD on BeachFront's page, but the only thing inside that case was hot air.

Many called "shenanigans" immediately, others took the proverbial hook, line, and sinker. Still others are not admitting they were taken in, opting instead for "Ah, I knew all along!" approach, but everyone seems to have had a good laugh, and for that, we are grateful!

Now, what is NOT a shenanigan is that the guys are in the early stages of putting together a CD of nearly all original music, tweaking their songs and looking for hooks, but we will at best only have a demo ready by Phins To the West. So hang in there, Desert Island Nation!

Oh, and we also wish to happily announce that the Desert Island Band WILL in fact be performing at Phins To the West next month. We're not sure when or where at the event we'll be playing, so just stay with us here and at our website for more information as it becomes available.

BeachFront Radio Returns To Phoenix

That's right, our friends Capt'n Cali and DJ Jeff are back in town for tonight's Mark Mulligan/Sunny Jim show! In fact, the Amish Beach Party will be coming at you live beginning at 11:00AM Arizona time, from an undisclosed location not far from where I sit at this very moment.

So crank up your computer, hack your employer's firewall or bribe your IT geek to let BeachFront come through, and listen in today. Prepare to be unproductive!

You never know who might show up.