 He also cut surf records for VJ, which is very odd. Just one self-indulgent moment about my patient wait for kicks. When I was in college, my sophomore year at San Francisco State, I got a phone call at home from a pal, Ken Samuels, and he said, I've just been to Village Music in Mill Valley, and there was this magazine in there, and Escarita and The Phantom are on the cover. Now, I had known Escarita through that French reissue,