No, no, no, were not drug addicts!! It's the name of an addictive little surf spot on Kauai......!
Written, performed, produced and recorded at Koloa Dub Lab by Ron Rhoades.

Heroin's

Cover of The Ventures version found on their 'The Fabulous Ventures' album.
Produced and performed by Ron Rhoades at Koloa Dub Lab, Kauai, Hawaii.

Only The Young

This is the original demo version of my song "Goofy Foot". It contains samples from several classic 60's surf tunes...can you name them?
Written, produced and performed by Ron Rhoades at Koloa Dub Lab, Kauai, Hawaii.

Goofy Foot(original version)

Surf spot fronting our bass players surf shack on Kauai's South Shore.
Written, performed and produced by Ron Rhoades at Koloa Dub Lab.

Johnny's Reef

Well, everybody has a Christmas tune and so do we!!
Performed and produced by Ron Rhoades at Koloa Dub Lab, Kauai, Hawaii.

Santa Claus Is Coming To Surf...!

Surf tune I wrote over a Jimmy Cliff loop "You Can Get It (If You Really Want)" from the soundtrack to the film 'The Harder They Come'. I was just having some fun in the studio and it came out pretty good!
Musicians on the loop:
Guitar- Hux Brown
Rhythm Guitar- Rad Bryan
Bass- Jackie Jackson
Drums- Paul Douglas
Keys- Winston Wright
Piano- Glady Anderson
Guitar on theme and various keyboard parts by Ron Rhoades.

You Can Surf It (If You Really Want)

Avila Beach....where i spent a good portion of my youth. Lived in Shell Beach and used to hang out at Avila when the waves got blown out at Palisades. (Demo Version)

Avila (Demo Version)

Mosquito Bay

Goofy Foot

Avila

The TakeOffs are an instrumental surf band from Kauai, Hawaii led by Ron Rhoades. The songs that appear on this site are the sole work of Ron Rhoades in his Koloa Dub Lab recording studio and have not been performed by The TakeOffs (except "Diamonds" 'live' "Mosquito Bay" and "Goofy Foot"). The TakeOffs have released their first studio CD titled 'Blue Avalanche' which is available from: www.doublecrownrecords.com and www.deepeddy.net
Band members are: Ron Rhoades-guitar John Hunt-bass Conrad Mathews-drums Billy Mello-guitar.

The TakeOffs

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