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"Hi, everybody! We?re back! Walt and I have written a bunch of new tunes, and along with Scott, Dave, Janis and Bruce we?ve worked them out and put together this new album for you. More and more people have been telling us how the pace of their lives has gotten crazy and they seem to have less and less time to just relax and regroup. We hope that if you can?t get some time to kick back at the beach, you can at least slip this disc on your player, give it a spin, and let it be your "Beach Access!" -- John Zambetti, liner notes from "Beach Access." The Malibooz, a surf and pop vocal band, featuring John Zambetti and Walter Egan, have just released their 4th full length album, "Beach Access," on the Pier Group record label. The initial pressing of the 13-song CD includes real sea shells in the spine of the jewel case! Now if you can?t get to the beach, the beach can come to you! The Malibooz? sound lies somewhere between The Beach Boys and The Ventures, blending the gnarly gnashing thrash of their Fender guitars with ethereal dreamy vocal harmonies and soaring falsettos. Voted Best Surf Vocal Group of 1997 by the readers of Surf Music USA magazine, their classic sound remains fresh and exciting today. "We always loved The Beach Boys? harmonies and melodies, says Zambetti, "but we felt that the music of the early albums wasn?t really strong, heavy-duty Rock ?n? Roll surf. And so what we tried to do was to have a heavier, stronger guitar background, along with the good vocals. We?ve always had that Phil Spector/Brian Wilson production thing going on in the background, even with the newer stuff, as we progressed.