Sun And Sail Club, featuring members Bob Balch of Fu Manchu (guitar, vocoder vocals), Scott Thomas Reeder of Kyuss, The Obsessed (production/bass), Fu Manchu drummer Scott Reeder and singer Tony Reflex (Adolescents), will release their debut, The Great White Dope, in May.

When asked how Tony became part of the equation Balch replies: "On the last record 'Mannequin' I recorded all the vocals using my guitar and a vocoder. I'm a big fan of Kraftwerk and Black Moth Super Rainbow and that album reflects that 100%. On this record I wanted to hear a singer. My first idea was Tony from The Adolescents. I grew up listening to them. Fu Manchu covered their song "Things Start Moving" and he came up and sang it with us in Orange County. I watched that footage and was way into his voice with our sound. Not to mention his lyrics too! He rules. I had a few riffs floating around, nowhere near a full record. I contacted Tony and he agreed to sing on the record. He hadn't even heard one note! Once I read that response I was super pumped and wrote almost the entire record in 3 hours with his vocals in mind. The end result is a record that is super inspired and aggressive with songs that get right to the point."

On the recording process Balch reveals: “I always wanted to make a record that was punk influenced with big drums and fuzzy guitars. Like 'What if the Bad Brains had to play a set on Fu Manchu's gear?' I sent the tunes to Reeder (drummer) and then drove up to Orange County to demo them. We jammed once and then we were in the studio the following week to track drums and rhythm guitars. We went with our buddy Andrew Giacumakis' studio to record drums and rhythm guitars. We got him to mix too. His ears are impeccable. He plays in a band named MOAB and we love the tones he gets. He recorded drums, bass and mixed the last Fu Manchu record Gigantoid as well. From there I went to "The Racket Room" to get some vocals with Tony Adolescent and Jim Monroeat the board. Jim recorded guitars on the last Fu Manchu record and recorded the Adolescents a bunch of times so that decision made perfect sense. Then I headed out to the desert to record leads and bass at Scott Reeder's "Sanctuary." It was always my intention and always will be my intention to record there. Not only because Reeder gets the best guitar, bass and drum tones ever, but also that way he can watch me fumble through the tracks on bass then annihilate my tracks by recording some of his own. We had Carl Saff at Saff Mastering master the record. He mastered the MOAB stuff and that stuff sounds massive!"

Album layout by Peder Bergstrand (Lowrider, I Are Droid), and artwork by Helen Green.

The Great White Dope tracklist:

“Krokodil Dental Plan”
“Dresden Fireball Freakout Flight”
“Baba Yaga Bastard Patrol”
“Migraine With A Chainsaw Reduction”
“Level Up & Shut It Down”
“Fever Blister & The Great White Dope”
“Full Tilt Panic”
“Alien Rant Factory”
“Inside Traitor Outside View”
“Cypherpunk Roulette”

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