"The Lost Boys Of Penzance" -- Frequently Asked Questions...

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The Lost Boys Of Penzance – F.A.Q.

Explain the name, please?

The LBOP name comes from a combination of two literary works, James M. Barrie's Peter Pan (a play) and Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance (light opera). The two works have in common "pirates" and "orphans" which, to producer Jonathan Villegas' weird way of thinking, was reason enough for a cool band name.

Where'd these "lost boy" studio musicians come from?

The boys were noticed saying something like "Help, save me!" from outside a certain mansion in Santa Barbara, CA (to avoid libel, we would NEVER say exactly what LAND this mansion is on). The boys grew up and turned out to be fine musicians in their own right. (They originally wanted to learn to play guitar and/or be in a rock band to pick up girls.)

How is it that you guys sound so "mature"?

It is a fact that surf-instro rock icons such as The Ventures with 200+ years collective experience and Dick Dale with 100 years experience loom tall over LBOP's paltry 35 years of collective experience. To counter this, LBOP employ a team of scientists in white lab coats who use a half-dozen 2 GHz G5 Macintosh computers hooked together in a Starfabric multicomputer cluster to analyze the Boys' double picking and other guitar/bass/drum techniques. The multicomputer cluster also provides advanced spectrum analysis (to find "holes" in the frequency spectra of LBOP's music) as well as biofeedback and subliminal sleep training for the individual band members. Martial arts and running on the Encinitas beach (Moonlight or Swami's) completes the LBOP training regimen.