Pro-Surfer and Musician Timmy Curran the Special Guest on New Episode of All Access

On an all new episode of All Access, Samantha Maloney spends a relaxing Southern California day with retired pro-surfer and singer-songwriter, Timmy Curran. Curran, who is most famous for completing a full rotation, upside-down flip in two-foot surf known worldwide as "The Flip", made his musical breakthrough in his late twenties after his song "Horses on the Range" was featured in a documentary about legendary surfboard shaper Al Merrick. Curran has since released an 11-track album titled “Word of Mouth” via Adeline Records, and has opened for bands such as Switchfoot, Eisley, and the Foo Fighters.

Samantha begins the day at Curran’s private studio to chat about his pro-surfing career, the bumpy road to his success as a musician, and his new album “Word of Mouth”. After their conversation, Curran grabs his guitar to treat Sam and viewers to a private acoustic set of his song “Blue Eyes”.  The duo ends the day at the beach to teach Sam how to surf. 

Sam then heads to DFest, a rock music festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to catch up with American post-hardcore/heavy metal band, Helmet. Helmet has released six studio albums and two compilations since forming in 1989. The band’s most famous album “Meantime” debuted on the Billboard 200 charts at Number 68 in 1992.

About Timmy Curran

Tim Curran (born August 14, 1977) is a musician, retired professional surfer and a spokesperson for the Surfrider Foundation. During his successful surfing career, he was one of the best surfers on the World Championship Tour, and was consistently in contention for the world championship. Curran was raised and still resides near the Silver Strand Beach neighborhood of Oxnard in Southern California, just outside of Los Angeles. He was born in the San Fernando Valley, but spent some of his childhood in the southern Riverside County city of Temecula. Temecula is roughly an hour from the ocean, so at age 5 his father started driving him to the beach every weekend and taught him to surf. He obtained his first sponsorship at age eleven from McCrystal Surfboards and was competing as a professional surfer by age sixteen. He is considered to be the pioneer of surfing's "Aerial Revolution" of the late 1990s, and is famous for completing a full rotation, upside-down flip in two-foot surf at Rocky Point in Hawaii during winter of 2005. This popular aerial achievement has become known worldwide as simply "The Flip".

About Dfest

Dfest is the Midwest's largest music festival and most comprehensive music conference in the Midwest. National acts The All-American Rejects, The Roots, The Disco Biscuits, Clutch, Paramore, Zappa Plays Zappa, Ghostland Observatory, moe., Helmet, Phantom Planet, Edison Glass, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, AM, Ty England, Ravi, The Apples In Stereo, Joshua James, and Cory Chisel play to large audiences in Tulsa's Blue Dome District. In addition to national acts, Dfest features 130 unsigned artists selected from applicants for these slots that exceeded 1,000 musical acts.

About Samantha

Samantha Maloney, most widely known as one of the sexiest drummers in Rock, is the host of maniaTV's flagship music show, All Access, which takes the viewer deep inside the world of major artists and showcases the best in new music. Samantha, a "Fame" high school alum, has traveled the world drumming for well-known bands such as Hole, Motley Crue, Eagles of Death Metal, and Peaches and has collaborated with artists such as Courtney Love, Pras, Lucy Walsh, Josh Homme and Mark Lanegan. In addition to composing and producing the original score for the award winning documentary Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope, Samantha has also contributed her musical genius to well-known movie soundtracks, including Ridley Scott's Oscar winning film, Black Hawk Down, Prey For Rock and Roll, and the recently released, Never Back Down. Samantha has also graced the silver screen as an actor in Factory Girl and the 2008 Sundance favorite, Adventures of Power. Samantha resides in Los Angeles, California and is currently producing and songwriting for well known acts in the rock, pop and electronic genres and is in the midst of putting the final touches on her own flagship musical endeavor, The Ingenues.

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