Michael Bennet has been a music fan since first discovering the Seeds (playing the role of the Warts) on 60’s sitcom, the Mothers in Law. Michael has played guitar in various bands since 1981, including postpunk instrumental combo, Lost Barbecue, 60’s garage/psyche cover band, Lunchbox, psychedelic indie garage pop beat combo, the Dupont Circles, and surf instrumental band, the Luau Cinders. Michael has been a college radio DJ and record label owner (Cara Records). Michael resides with his family and his record collection in Bethesda, Maryland.
The 16th annual Surf Guitar 101 Festival, held this year at the Golden Sails Hotel in Long Beach, California, featured 27 surf bands from around the planet, running the gamut from original 60’s surf from the likes of the Surfaris” and the *Atlantics” to long-time practitioners of next-wave surf, like the *Insect Surfers, Boss Martians, and the Ghastly Ones, to contemporary surf bands with a global twist, like the *Whys (Japan), Surfer Joe (Italy), Dirty Fuse (Greece), and the Scimitars.
The Prisoners May 24, 2024, gig at the famed Roundhouse in London put a capstone on their legendary (at least to this scribe) career. Playing before their biggest audience ever, the band treated the crowd gathered from all over the world to a set of vintage organ-fueled garage, psyche, and soul, while playing gems covering their whole career, from 1982 debut, A Taste of Pink to their stellar 2024 comeback album, Morning Sun.