NEW SOUTH

CONSTANT HITMAKER

ABSOLUTEGO

This show was a miracle. I had an abscess removed from my throat 2 days before due to Tonsillitis. I was spitting up dark blood the day after and day of the show as we drove up to SF. Not sure how I pulled this off? I thank the universe on this one.

CHECK MY BRAIN

SAMHAIN

AMPLIFIER WORSHIP

-LA Record spread.



-Madness in the Mtns. Pic by Vanessa Corbala.

-Wall rides in Pedro. Pic by Chuck Hicks.

NIGHT SCHOOL

""""""NIGHT SCHOOL""""""""

-Every Saturday Night @ 3 OF CLUBS

A night of pure mania rock n roll circus for one and all.

Music provided by DJ Sam James Velde & Friends

3 Of Clubs
1123 Vine Street Hollywood, CA

10pm-2am

FOG RISING

SENT TO SAVE MY SOUL

New record rulessssss!

HOTTER THAN HELL

THURSDAY OCTOBER 8TH 2009

CIRCA: NOW!
DJs Sam James Velde (Night Horse) & Chico Foley (Ancestors) playing gems from records of all ROCKIN' varieties.

@El Chavo Restaurant Bar
4441 Sunset Blvd.
10pm- Onwards
Come hang and welcome in the goodtimes.

HOTTER THAN A DOCKERS ARMPIT

Less not forget!

CRUSH THE DEMONIAC

I'll be 'Guest DJn' tonight @ Footsies for Metal Mondays with DJs Mark V. and Purple. $2 Colts. Im thinking some Morbid Angel, Toadliquor, maybe some Caspar Brotzmann Massaker....? Let's do this!!

TWO WAYS OUT

I love this song, I wonder if they meant to jack the Supergrass melody? Either way it's still great.

NEW DAWN

Troubadour 9.23.2009 with new drummer Jamie Miller. Video by Eszter Zimanyi

CIRCA: NOW!

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 17th 2009

CIRCA: NOW! @ El Chavito Bar

Cheap Drinks, Great Food, Upstairs Patio

Music: Variations of Rock N' Roll

Provided by DJs Sam James Velde (Night Horse) and Chico Foley (Ancestors) w/ Friends

8pm-1am
4441 Sunset Blvd. (Inside El Chavo)
Los Angeles, CA

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Beatles remasters! Get em!!

HYPNO JAM WITH DAN

NIGHT HAWKING

THURSDAY SEPT. 10th 2009

CIRCA: NOW! @ El Chavito Bar

Cheap Drinks, Great Food and Tunes, Lotsa Good Tunes ....Rock Psyche Pop Rock

Provided by DJs Sam James Velde (Night Horse), Chico Foley (Ancestors) & friends

8pm-1am
4441 Sunset Blvd. (Inside El Chavo)
LA, CA 90027

DRUG RUG

HOT AND NASTY

THURSDAY SEPT. 3rd 2009

CIRCA: NOW! @ El Chavito Bar

Cheap Drinks, Great Food and Tunes, Lotsa Good Tunes ....

Provided by DJs Sam James Velde (Night Horse), Chico Foley (Ancestors) & friends

8pm-12pm
4441 Sunset Blvd. (Inside El Chavo)
LA, CA 90027

RAVE DOWN

PARTY IN THE PINES

SMOKE SIGNALS

NIGHT HORSE in the LA Weekly:

http://www.laweekly.com/2009-08-27/music/in-sounds-from-the-far-out/


IN SOUNDS FROM THE FAR OUT
Riding with Night Horse, Spindrift and Tee Pee Records
BY DREW TEWKSBURY
Published on August 26, 2009 at 3:23pm

Tee Pee Records’ Night Horse
“I hope you brought your earplugs,” Justin Maranga says as we walk through a loading dock stranded in a section of North Hollywood industrial wasteland. Maranga leads me down the sparse corridor in a warehouse-turned–practice space, past a row of doors and into a high-ceilinged room. The wires jutting out of the ceiling look like the entrails of a dead building. We pass a Cold War–era soda machine and step up to a gunmetal-gray door marked “11.” Maranga pushes it open to reveal a room towering with amplifiers, cords snaking across the floor. The four other members of rock-&-roll band Night Horse stand poised at their instruments.

It’s 11 a.m. on a Saturday. Good morning.

Bassist Nick D’Itri leans on his amp near a broken-looking organ crouched in the corner. Guitarist Greg Buensuceso runs through a lick in front of his Orange amplifier. At the center of the room, Justin Pierce sits behind his drum set and trash-talks Maranga as we walk in. Maranga wastes no time getting started. He strokes his long, reddish beard once, straps on his guitar and rips into the strings. What comes out is the Southern rock–brushed “Come Down Halo,” from the band’s recently released split 7-inch single with Sea of Air. Singer Sam James Velde, former member of rock outfit Bluebird, shakes his hair and lifts one hand to the rafters while the other clutches the mic stand. Here, in the privacy of their practice space, they rip through the Allman Brothers–tinged dual guitar lines and growling bass of “Choose Your Side,” and the rowdy, roadhouse blues of “Good Bye Gone.” “We sped up too much on that one,” Maranga tells the other guys, most of whom were friends from their high school days in Thousand Oaks.

They’re halfway though this Saturday-morning practice session, and the guys have a lot of work ahead of them. Buensuceso also has to get to his grandmother’s birthday party soon, so in these few hours, they’ve got to get it right. Night Horse doesn’t sound rusty, but it’s been a while since the members have all rehearsed together, and one of their biggest shows quickly approaches: Sunset Junction. It’s a crucial moment offering serious exposure for the down-home rockers, a chance to spread their sound to an audience as yet untapped.

Night Horse’s style is familiar but indiscernible; their cocksure barroom vocals and guitar-solo tradeoffs would be at home at CBGB (R.I.P.). “We’re first and foremost a rock & roll band, but we try not to be too derivative,” says Velde. If Night Horse has any derivations, they come from their label, Tee Pee Records, the New York–based outfit that curates the finest in no-gimmick, back-to-basics rock bands.

Founded in 1995 by Tony Presedo, Tee Pee earned high marks for early, seminal releases from drone rockers Sleep and High on Fire, along with weirdos Brian Jonestown Massacre. Presedo parted ways with the label in August 2008 (he now heads up the culinary mash-up Territory BBQ + Records). Under the direction of Steve Dolcemaschio, the “almost-24-year-old” (as he tells me) general manager, the label has cultivated its lineup into an L.A.-centric list heavy on the psychedelic tip. “We are trying to make a label that puts out good music, for the sake of the music,” Dolcemaschio says. Last year he was an intern at Tee Pee, and now he runs the label. The boutique imprint has a staff of four in New York, but supports a roster of eight bands in L.A., six of which were signed or re-signed in 2009. From the Western flavor of Spindrift and the dark, postapocalyptic haunt of label newcomers Black Math Horseman to Maranga and Pierce’s other band, the epic wall of rock experimentalists, Ancestors, Tee Pee’s latest signings are collectively infused with layers and sonic textures usually absent from the endless noodling of some stoner effusium.

Last July, Tee Pee brought together many of its bands for the first annual New Weird America Fest at L.A.’s Nomad Gallery. The show, named after the “new weird America” freak folk-musical phylum that bubbled up around 2003, in many ways marked a new moment in Los Angeles music — or at least a reimagining of movements past. It had been years since Arthur Fest brought the finest experimental, psychedelic and folk musics to L.A.; FYF Fest, although presenting a phenomenal lineup, appealed more to Vice Magazine enthusiasts and American Apparel fans. New Weird America represented a realigning of the new psychedelic sounds with roots in Los Angeles’ far-out history.

“It reminded me of being in the desert, of going to see Kyuss out at a generator party, and that kind of community,” desert sage and songwriter Imaad Wasif told me while at indie radio station KXLU. The Coachella Valley native, with family roots in India, played the New Weird America Fest and looked the part of this burgeoning psych scene. His matchstick legs were shrink-wrapped into jeans, his long, wavy hair fell onto the shoulders of his gray military-looking jacket. At times, he speaks like a mystic. “It’s all about creating this cycle of birth, death and growth,” Wasif says about the spiritual nature of his upcoming album, The Voidist (out October 13), which melds melodic acoustic strumming with swirling psych breakdowns. “I didn’t realize it as a kid, but how my parents raised me, with our food and Indian lifestyle, was almost like a mystic in India,” Wasif says. “All of my songs have an embodiment of a character, which is me, and this oracle. I believe in this androgyny within myself.”

FLOWERS IN THE DESERT

-SUNSET JUNCTION-

SUNDAY AUG. 23rd 2009

NIGHT HORSE @ Bates Stage-1:40pm

Sunday Aug. 23rd Schedule:
12:00 – 12:30 Love Grenades
12:50 – 1:20 Nico Stai
1:40 – 2:10 Night Horse
2:30 – 3:00 Local Natives
3:20 – 3:50 Fool’s Gold
4:10 – 4:50 Tiny Masters of Today
5:10 – 5:50 Mika Miko
6:20 – 7:20 The Sonics
7:50 – 9:50 Built To Spill

CHOOSE YOUR SIDE

*N I G H T H O R S E*
-East Coast Shows-

To celebrate the 8/11/09 release of our 2nd of 3 new split singles on Tee Pee Records. Night Horse will be playing select east coast shows. Come on down and celebrate with us.

Aug. 13 - New York City, NY
@ East Village Radio (In Studio Acoustic Performance)

Aug. 13 - New York City, NY
@ Pianos w/ TK Webb & The Visions, Barracks

Aug. 14 - Providence, RI
@ Firehouse 13 w/ Doomriders, Howl

Aug. 15 - Baltimore, MD
@ Hexagon w/ Caverns, Solar Powered Sun Destroyer

Aug. 16 - Brooklyn, NY
@ Union Pool w/ Tournament, Orphan, Chronic Youth DJs

http://www.myspace.com/nighthorsemusic

Venue Info:
http://pianosnyc.com/#
http://firehouse13.org/
http://hexagonspace.com/
http://www.myspace.com/unionpool

VOICE BOX

My buddy Pat's band is featured in the New York "Village Voice" this week. Glad to know there are actual music writers out there that know how to write and write about good things happening outside of the PR grindmill! Peep it here:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-22/music/no-pollution-are-not-on-twitter/

The Nils

Been jamming out to lots of pop influenced late 80s/early 90s punk/rock lately. Stuff like late Husker Du, Soul Asylum (dont cringe "Hang Time is a great record), Lemonheads, Big Drill Car, Seaweed, Doughboys, etc. But man, it's The Nils that take the cake.

.......From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Nils was a Canadian power-pop punk rock band originating in Montreal, Quebec which produced several releases between 1978 and 1994.
The band was founded in 1978 by then 12-year old Alex Soria with his brother Carlos Soria. The band never achieved widespread fame despite critical success and a following amongst other musicians in the genre. "... but what surprises me most is how many I run into, or hear from, who say they loved the Nils or were directly influenced by them. The Goo Goo Dolls, Superchunk, Jawbox, Meat Puppets, Down By Law, Bob Mould and many of the power-pop punk bands(too many to name), all rave about the Nils."

-Here's a link to their last record. Its so good.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:kTSEFLodEEEJ:icoulddietomorrow.blogspot.com/2009/02/nils-nils.html+the+nils+Green+Fields+In+Daylight+megaupload&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

GOLDEN SHOWER OF HITS

I got a bunch of stuff on my desktop I'm putting up here. I love this image I found somewhere? Maybe the PTLDME blog?


Troy Hale took this great pic of Night Horse at one of the all ages shows we did in Thousand Oaks in June. Love this one!




Adam Michael Bravin (Adam 12) took some great pics last week of Night Horse in LA.




I lost my camera! But, my old childhood buddy was in town- Sean Sullivan. We went out for coffee and he took some pics of me. So instead of getting another sub par camera, Im gonna wait and get the same one he took these pics with.

BLUE HIGHWAYS

GRAVEYARD (Sweden) & NIGHT HORSE
*2 So Cal shows this weekend!*

-Sat. July 18 @ Bootleg Theatre-
2220 Beverly Blvd. Echo Park, CA 90057
Doors @ 9:30pm / $10
*Wake Up Lucid opens.
DJ sets by Joe Cardamone (Icarus Line)

-Sun. July 19 @ Bar Pink-
3829 30th St., San Diego, CA
Doors @ 9pm
Free Show!

GRAVEYARD
Their self titled debut resurrects the sounds of 70’s psychedelic rock. The clash of folk, psychedelic, and blues makes for a mind-bending trip back to the days of Cream, Sabbath, and Blue Cheer. Graveyard brings back to life all that is right with rock and roll, from the dark haze that is brought upon by the space blues of “Blue Soul” to the rocking trip of “Submarine Blues”. The band proves they have what it takes to hang with the classics while delivering a sound that is all their own.
http://www.myspace.com/graveyardsongs

NIGHT HORSE
Tradition lies deep in the music of Los Angeles rock and roll group NIGHT HORSE, which features members of dirge soundscapists Ancestors and the vocal styling of Sam James Velde, formerly of explorative and adventurous rockers Bluebird. NIGHT HORSE bring a saddle bag full of heavy, raw and riffed-out blues-tinged rock steeped in the likes of John Lee Hooker, Taste, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac and The Allman Brothers Band without a retro stitch. NIGHT HORSE rein in the past with a firm heel in the present, galloping next to such like-minded contemporaries as Harvey Milk, Down and Priestess.
http://www.myspace.com/nighthorsemusic

Bootleg Info:
http://www.foldsilverlake.com/

Bar Pink Info:
http://www.barpink.com/

SUGAR MAMA

In celebration of our 1st of 3 split singles. We'll be kicking it off with our buddies Dirty Sweet (who share the B Side of the 1st single out this week) at The Casbah in San Diego. Come on down.

GET BACK LORETTA

SOME CALL ME INSANE

Produced by Glenn Danzig 1990. Get it!

EVERYBODIES

ALIVE SHE CRIED

LORD

ALL AGES

All ages show this Friday. Come on down. "Be seeing you."

OVER IT (NOT!)

This video is great-so funny, and the new tune....well, can they do any wrong?

DONT TREAD ON ME (PLEASE!)

Gov. Schwarzenegger's has proposed a plan to cut $143 million out of the California parks budget. Essentially, this amounts to a potential closure of 80% -90% of the states 279 public parks. LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Go here for more information:

http://ga3.org/campaign/budget_may09

BASS / 103

Do you have this? Get it. Produced by Eli. Art by Spiv. Total classic.

NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE

OUT THERE

DIG IT!

TK Webb & The Visions
Derek Trucks
Susan Tedeschi
Dinosaur Jr.
John Lennon
The Band
The Prisoner
The Hit
Bicycles
Skateboards
Cameras
Reason To Believe
Erykah Badu
John Legend
Amazing Baby
Fools Gold
Brussell Sprouts
Cantaloupe
RIT Dye
Coffee

BONE BAG

PLASTIC BOMB

GEORGIA ON MY MIND

RED ROCKETS GLARE

GHOSTS

I decided to put up some pics that have been laying dormant on the Bluebird website for years. I sang in Bluebird from 1995-2003.....2005 We made a bunch of records and traveled a nice chunk of the world. Here are some pics from 2002-2003 of things we did, places we went and people we shared it all with. I took these on one of the 1st digital cameras that came out. ha! When I get my old laptop fixed I'll yank even more pics out from these days and prolly more........


'Falling Back To Earth" Video Shoot. Joshua Tree, CA

One of our last LA shows.

Graveyard. Savannah, Georgia

Will of HIFH. Portsmith, England

Pete. London, England

Paul. Sound City Studios Van Nuys, CA

22 Song Rehearsal List. Portsmith, England

Me. Sound City Studios. Van Nuys, CA

Me. Live. Somewhere USA

Me & Rod Stewart. Kyoto, Japan

Mt. Fuji. Somewhere, Japan

Paul, Bryan, Jim & Bhuddist Monks. Somewhere Over The Pacific Ocean

Bluebird Live. Tokyo, Japan

Bluebird & LionFever. Subterranean. Chicago, IL

Sweet Ride. Knoxville, TN

Jim. Bhuddist Temple. Kyoto, Japan

Har Mar Superstar. Columbia Hotel. London, England

The Bird Is The Most Popular Finger. Tube Station. London, England

Paul & Bryan. Paris, France

Paul. Drunk. Brooklyn, NY

Dead Bird. Echo Park, CA

Paul & Dave Clifford. Portland, OR

Horse & Carriage. Prague, Czech Republic

Wata of Boris. Tokyo, Japan

Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden), Me, Bryan, Paul. BBC Interview. London, England

Bryan & Jim. London, England

Bluebird. Basement of Masonic Temple. Toledo, OH

Bryan & Joe Barrisi. Sound City Studios. Van Nuys, CA

Rock Sound Review.

Barry. Tube Station. London, England

Bluebird. Paris, France

The Astoria. Line for the show. London, England

Bluebird. Narita Airport. Tokyo, Japan

THE LIVER IS (THE COCKS COMB)

Time for another list, music off my grid.....:

Engine Kid- Astronaut EP
The Heads- S/T
Ladyhawk- S/T
Trojan Presents- Trojan Explosion Compilation
Fela Ransom Kuti- With Ginger Baker
Lungfish- Necrophones
Ice Cube- Amerikkka's Most Wanted
Herbie Hancock- Headhunters
Hansson & Karlsson- S/T
Ethiopiques- Vol. 4
Temple Of The Dog- S/T
Fela Ransom Kuti- Shuffering and Shmiling
Fela Ransom Kuti- Original Suffer Head
Seaweed- Four
Seaweed- Weak
Nigeria 70- Compilation

NEW FAST FUCKY FUCKY

Truly one of my all time favorite bands. Not just of the 80's Dischord era, but of all time. Still a source of inspiration.

WENT UP ON THE MOUNTAIN, TO SEE WHAT I COULD SEE

BROTHER WOLF, SISTER MOON

RAIN LIKE THE SOUND OF TRAINS

GENTLEMAN

GINGER BAKER ON FELA KUTI
by Jay Babcock
originally published in Mean #6 (Dec 99-Jan 00) as part of a FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI giant feature.

Best known for his work with Cream, Ginger Baker is one of the all-time great drummers, a versatile master at ease in a number of the world's drumming traditions. He also has a reputation as an imposing interview subject. Still, at his wife's recommendation, Mean called Ginger at his South African home at 7am, interrupting his bath. Here's how the conversation went.

When did you meet Fela?

Ginger Baker: I knew Fela since the very early '60s, when he was at the World College of Music. He used to play trumpet, and come and sit in the all-night jams which I played in... 1960-61... I went to Nigeria in 1970, that's when I saw Fela again. I [inaudible] there from 1970 to 1976...

I'm sorry, did you say you were living there during that time?

[voice rising] I lived in Nigeria from 1970 until 1976!

[pause] Uh. Okay. What can you tell me about making the record with Fela?

Absolutely nothing. [pause] That was a combination of a lot of things before it, that we made the record, and a lot of things after it. It wasn't just a one-off thing, I mean I did a five-week tour with Fela's band when Tony Allen was ill.

Oh, okay--

"Oh, okay." Yes. ISN'T THAT FUCKING AMAZING? "How extraordinary!" Fucking,
man...

When did you do that?

During the period I was in Nigeria! Do you think I keep a diary and write things down?!?

No, I'm just trying to get it straight-

Between 1970 and 1975! That five-year period.

Okay...um...some people say...How much of Fela's sound, do you think, came from James Brown, and how much of it was his own thing?

100% of it was his own thing. Completely his own thing. Absolutely nothing to do with James Brown.

Really?

Fela blew James Brown off the stage when he came to Nigeria.

What...did they-

"Whu-whu-ohmygawd-whoa-have I got a story here!" Fuck, man. You're talking to someone who [inaud] here.

[pause] Um. When did they play together? Do you remember the circumstances? Was it a big stadium show-

I can't remember, exactly. You'll have to check it out. I'm sure you've got records you can check out.

Um...so how did [drummer] Tony Allen work with Fela?

Tony Allen tuned the band up. Virtually in charge of the whole situation.

But the arrangements for the songs were Fela's?

That was Fela.

So you were there in Nigeria when Fela had an incredible band.

That was the best band he ever had. The very first band had a tenor player called Igo Chiko...before Fela played tenor, Igo Chiko was the tenor player, who was pretty fucking cool. He had a row with Fela and left the band and that's when Fela took up tenor saxophone. [pause] The band with Igo Chiko was THE happening band.

And that's the band you recorded with?

That's the band I toured with too.

So Tony was ill and you filled in for him?

Yeah, Tony was sick.

How did that work out?

It was terrible, I got fired every night, they threw eggs and bottles at me and told me to fuck off cuz I was a white man.

Ah...

What do you think?!? No, of course it was FUCKING ALRIGHT! OTHERWISE I WOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT!

[pause] Well. I mean, had you been sitting in with the band much prior to that?

Yes I had, I used to sit in regularly with the band because people used to ask me to, especially Fela. Fela and I were very, very good friends. You know...Fela got very political. His music, instead of being humorous, became very political and he upset the Nigerian Army, which is not a good thing to do. [long pause]

Right. I'm pretty familiar with the politics, as much as I can be from
reading these books and-

No, I don't think most people know everything that went down that led up to that event. I know more of it than most people. I mean, there were a whole load of events that lead up to it. It wasn't suddenly... The Nigerians got very, very worried about Fela. The Kalakuta Party held a political rally in Lagos City Stadium and got 250,000 people there!

That's the thing that's so hard to grasp, isn't it, how extremely popular he was, and how radical. But was it simply an anti-corruption thing for him, or was he a socialist-

No. I blame the people who were around Fela at the time. Fela himself was an incredibly humorous, wonderful fellow. Some pretty radical people got very close to Fela. I think they misadvised him some. I really believe Fela could have become president...How good a president he would've been, I don't know. I mean, how good a president would I be? [laughter] He took a couple of wrong turns, that, tome were very un-Fela-like. It really wasn't like Fela. It was the committee...We used to sit round a table the shape of Africa. Called The African Table. And I was on that committee for two years.

So as Fela got more popular--

They got over-confident. Several of Fela's people heavily provoked the military, yes. Not a very good idea in a place like Nigeria.

Bill [Laswell] told me Nigeria was one of the most corrupt, evil places on the face of the earth...

Absolute rubbish. Absolute rubbish. When I mentioned this, when I was in Ghana, about the corruption, the reply I received was, 'Where do you think we learnt it?' The British government is the most corrupt government in the world. Or it used to be. I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. And if you don't think that, if you can't
see that, then there's something wrong with you. [pause] Corruption in Africa is on a finer scale compared to the corruption in the United States or the United Kingdom. They cover it up pretty well, they're not quite so open about it. That is the fact.

Well...um...what about the harassment by the military, by the police?

Harassment of Fela? [chuckling] The harassment was a two-way thing.

Really? What do you mean?

Well, you know, Fela won a court case against the Nigerian police where he won a lot of money, when his house was first raided, when they came to arrest the underage girls that Fela had just married...

...And there were other times when he embarrassed the police?

Pretty much so, yeah. Some of it was very cleverly done. After the police thing, Fela got really angry about the Army being on traffic duty with whips. And he brought out a record called Zombie. That was the period when things started going awry. I think I had left Nigeria by this time.

Oh. Right.

See, Fela was in the same position I am. There's an awful lot of stories, exaggerated, done by people like you...[laughs]...tend to get things arse about face, you've probably got everything I've said arse about face...

[Nervous laugh] I'm getting it all on tape, Ginger, I don't want to misquote you...

Yeah, but when you edit the tape, you could come up with...I've had it done to me so many times. Fela has, too. Really Fela was a wonderfully nice fellow, you know, who was EXTREMELY popular. He was far more popular than James Brown in Africa by a country mile. I don't mean 'slightly.' Fela was an incredibly popular fellow, and his music was incredible, especially, you know, in that period of the early '70s.

What did he have that his competitors didn't?

He didn't have any competitors. [laughs] There was nobody doing what Fela was doing. It was just...heh...you had to go to Fela's club to see that. You didn't see anybody that wasn't moving. The whole place was jumping. He had several clubs-the Afro-Spot, the Shrine, various places. One stunt he used to do...when the Shrine was on the opposite side of the main Lagos road, they would close the road before the gig, and cause a traffic jam for miles in both directions. [laughs] Completely block up Lagos. When Fela was ready to go to the gig he'd go across the road on a donkey, with all the girls and the band in a procession. And every time he did a gig they'd stop Lagos' traffic from moving. Completely. The whole of Lagos. This was a couple of times a week. The shows would go for hours. Two sets a night. If I was around, they insisted that I sat in. The favorite number everyone wanted me to play with Fela was "Gentleman." You ever hear that? That was when Fela was at his peak! It was humorous stuff. Fela had an incredible sense of humor, and [it was when] he was doing his tongue in cheek humorous stuff was when he was really hugely popular. He then started to get too political in his music...Well, it upset a lot of the band. Cuz the band were all, they were just like musicians. They were getting scared, is what happened. A lot of those really good players, you know, gave it up eventually because it was getting very heavy. Ask Tony Allen. [laughs]

In the movie you made, when you meet up with Fela, he just looks like the most generous, sweetest, good-humored person...when he comes out the door and is greeting you all in his underpants-

[laughing] Fela lived in his underpants. He used to get dressed to go onstage, but most of the time Fela walked around in his underpants.

It just looked like he was always in his underpants. And always smoking something.

Yeah, well, that was the whole thing of the Kalakuta Party, it was a smokers' party, which is why the government was so anti the thing.

What did he smoke?

Marijuana. Natural Nigerian grass. NNG. You know, most people in Africa-most of the population smoke-but it's illegal.

I've seen a few videos of Fela live...he's really yelling at the band, making sharp motions-

Fela was...ah... Have you ever been to Africa?

No.

Well, you need to. [laughs]

Yeah, see, I don't know if he was being playful, or if he was serious-

Fela could get very, very angry...All musicians get pissed off, eventually. Fela was a very nice man is what I'm trying to tell you. Very humorous fellow, just great fun to be around...

PSYCHOTIC REACTION

UNDER A FREEZING MOON

CAST NO SHADOW

Fuck if it ain't 2009. I spent last week NOT listening to music on my computer. Now that's weird and it ain't. Thats how alot of us humans listen to tunes these days, cuz you can store shitloads and it's a finger click away. If you got some good 'speaks' than 'you're in like flynn'. But I thought I'd get away from the 'puter' and get back to my dusty CD collection, some new promos I got and my good old record collection last week and presently (um like today). I had a friend stop by this weekend and she was a bit taken back that I was listening to CDs and not an ipod? Fucking weird huh? She commented, "CDs are the new LP now" Um, excuse me but I think Jesus just barfed! Anyways , I dont think this is making much sense or is even relevant. I just pounded 2 huge cups of dark coffee BTW.

Listen to music however the fuck you like. Just listen to music and go fucking nuts! The world needs it........
-Sam

Now Playing / Just Played:

Jack Rose- Kensington Blues
Goatsnake / Burning Witch - Split ep
Graveyard- Graveyard
Rolling Stones- Exile On Main Street
Bob Marley & The Wailers- Soul Rebels
Little Feat- Waiting For Columbus
Cedric Brooks- United Africa
Lee Fields & The Expressions- My World
Mountain- Nantucket Sleighride
Motorhead- Rock and Roll
Wolves In The Throneroom- Black Cascade
The Who- Live At Leeds
Big Drill Car- Small Block
Konono No. 1- Congotronics
The Whitefield Brothers- In The Raw
Cheap Trick- Cheap Trick
Terry Reid- Seed Of Memory
The Black Crowes- Live 10/22/05
Black Breath- Razor To Oblivion
Wino- Punctuated Equilibrium

*Listing inspired by Rich Jacobs!

MEZCAL HEAD

THE LAST GAS

HELLO, GOOD BYE GONE

New Night Horse Song-Split Single!

Fresh off the heels of their critically acclaimed EP “The Dark Won’t Hide You,” Night Horse return with another heavy helping of rockin ‘blues n roll’ by the name of “Good Bye Gone.” The A side to a split single with like minded roots rockers from San Diego “Dirty Sweet.” In stores July 7th.

The 1st of 3 split singles Night Horse have planned for this summer on Tee Pee Records....more on that soon.

Night Horse do what they do best, bringing full throated, dual guitar driven jams to induce your “bangover”! “Good Bye Gone” conjures thoughts of Cactus, Mountain and the swagger of Steve Marriott’s Humble Pie, baked in the Los Angeles sun.

5 piece barnbuners, Dirty Sweet return the favor with the finessed jam “Marionette.” This sonically insurgent tune evokes the spirit of The Band, Badfinger and The Faces. Recently taking “Best Rock” honors at the San Diego Music Awards for the second straight year, Dirty Sweet are the perfect fit here.

Come take a listen to "Good Bye Gone" at www.myspace.com/nighthorsemusic

SMILES FOR MILES

ONE MIRROR TOO MANY

RIGHT ON, RIDE ON!

**FRIDAY APRIL 3RD**

VALIENT THORR
http://www.myspace.com/valientthorr
NIGHT HORSE
http://www.myspace.com/nighthorsemusic
THE HIGH SAINTS
http://www.myspace.com/thehighsaints

DJ Duties by: Short Shorts (Little Radio) & Joe Cardamone (Icarus Line)

@ SPACELAND
1717 Silverlake Blvd. Silverlake, CA

21+ // 830PM DOORS // $8/$10

MUSICAL HARMONY & THE SOUTHERN COMPANION

PICS BY: S. O'Connor, J. Shirtcliff & D. Sweetapple.

DOWN SOUTH JUKIN'

NIGHT HORSE // SXSW 2009

-Wed. Mar 18
Tee Pee / MadeLoud SXSW Day Party @ Scoot Inn (w/ Hopewell, Sleepy Sun, Silverghost & more)
Night Horse @ 4pm

-Thurs. Mar 19
Full Metal Texas SXSW Day Party @ Emo’s Annex (w/ Kylesa, Skeletonwitch, Memphis May Fire, etc)
Night Horse @ 1pm

-Thurs. Mar 19
Tee Pee Records SXSW Showcase @ Room 710 (w/ Earthless, Annihilation Time, and more!)
Night Horse @ 10pm

-Sat. Mar 21
Tee Pee / LA Record SXSW Day Party @ Club 1808 (w/ Year Long Disaster, Warlocks, Tweak Bird & more!)
Night Horse @ 330pm

More Info at:
www.myspace.com/nighthorsemusic
www.teepeerecords.com

WE'RE FOR THE DARK

INTO THE MYSTIC

FAMILY AFFAIR

GRINDHOUSE

FURTHER UP

XXXMAS

HIGH ATMOSPHERE

THE WEST IS THE BEST

THANK CHRIST FOR THE BOMB

SWEET LEAF

OZONE MAMA

I'll be DJ'n....buy me drinks or you'll get "Funkytown" for 4 hours!

NOT FADE AWAY

PERFECT PRESCRIPTION

BLOOD DRUNK

OLD GHOSTS

IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR

Los Angeles meets Los Angeles. 5 bux!

INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONSPIRACY // NIGHT HORSE SHOWS

INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONSPIRACY & NIGHT HORSE

--LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO SHOWS--
-----------------------------------
WED. NOV. 12 @ EL CID
(4212 Sunset Blvd. Silverlake, CA) 9pm $8/21+

FRI. NOV. 14 @ EAGLE ROCK ARTS CENTER
(2225 Colorado Blvd. Eagle Rock, CA ) 8pm $8/All Ages

SUN. NOV. 16 @ BOTTOM OF THE HILL
(1233 17th Street San Francisco, CA) 8pm $15/All Ages

I WANNA BE ELECTED!

Nov. 4th ELECT THE HEAVY with.....

COLISEUM (Relapse Records)
NIGHT HORSE (Tee Pee Records)
CLOUDS (Hydra Head Records/ex Cave In)
THE DOLEMITE PROJECT
THE FUCKING WRATH

Doors @ 7pm/ Show @ 8pm
Safari Sam's @ The Regent Theatre
ALL AGES
448 S. Main Street
Downtown LA, CA

THE DARK WON'T HIDE YOU

NIGHT HORSE debuts 6 sonic hymns next week (October 21) under the title "The Dark Won't Hide You" on Tee Pee Records. Recorded and mixed by Mathias Schneeberger (Obsessed, Sunn 0))), Gutter Twins).

NIGHT HORSE rein in the past with a firm heel in the present, galloping next to such like-minded contemporaries as Harvey Milk, Down and Priestess. Delivering heavy testimonials harnessed with a twin lead guitar assault, NIGHT HORSE join hands with these brothers in arms. "The Dark Won't Hide You" brings a saddle bag full of heavy, raw and riffed-out blues-tinged rock steeped in the likes of John Lee Hooker, Taste, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac and The Allman Brothers Band without a retro stitch.

In celebration, NIGHT HORSE will have shows on both coasts starting this weekend! As well as dates at this year's CMJ Music Marathon, including the Tee Pee Records showcase, and Vice "Late Night Party". Shows and more info. below:

Upcoming Shows:
Oct 17 RECORD RELEASE SHOW CA @ Mountain Bar - LA, CA
w/ Lords, The Fucking Wrath & Green and Wood (Free)

Oct 18 SATURATION FEST @ Red Planet - Riverside, CA
w/ Lords, The Fucking Wrath, Graf Orlock & more...

Oct 19 @ Bombay’s - Ventura, CA
w/ Lords & The Fucking Wrath (Free)

Oct 21 RECORD RELEASE SHOW NY @ Charleston - Brooklyn, NY
w/ Acid Tiger (Mem.of Converge), Pollution & Said Fury

Oct 22 Tee Pee Records CMJ SHOWCASE @ Club Europa - Brook
lyn, NY
w/ King Tuff (Mem. of Witch), Titan, The Weight & more...

Oct 24 BROOKLYN LOFT PARTY @ 573 Sackett Street off Third Ave - Brooklyn, NY
w/ It Lives & Mythical Beast (7pm-10pm)

Oct 24 VICE LATE NIGHT PARTY @ Studio at Webster Hall - NYC, NY
w/ Monotonix (Free 12am-4am)

Oct 25 @ Cake Shop (Day Show) - NYC, NY
w/ Weird Owl, It Lives, Bad Dream & Slang Chickens (Free 2pm-7pm)

Nov 4 @ Safari Sam’s - LA, CA
w/ Coliseum, Clouds, & The Dolemite Project

Nov 12 @ El Cid - LA, CA
w/ ’Special Surprise Guests' (Free)

Nov 16 @ Bottom Of The Hill - San Francisco, CA
w/The International Noise Conspiracy

Nov 19 @ The Echo- LA, CA
w/The High Saints, Trigger Renegade & more

More dates to be announced.... Check myspace and website to stay tuned.

Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/nighthorsemusic
Label:
http://teepeerecords.com
Press:
http://groundcontrolmag.com/detail/3/1222/1/
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/10/saviours_surpri.html

-Night Horse

INTO TOMORROW

TOMORROW HITS TODAY

AMORICA

COME BACK DOWN

RAISED BY THE TIDE

FOOLIN'

LA RECORD

Peep some pics from last weekend's Manifest Destiny Festival featuring a bevy of shots of NIGHT HORSE at LA RECORD:

http://larecord.com/interviews/2008/09/10/photos-manifest-destiny-part-one/

GREEN MACHINE

INTO THE NIGHT

MANIFEST DESTINY

SUNDAY SEPT. 7TH 2008

TEE PEE RECORDS PRESENTS "MANIFEST DESTINY"

Featuring Live Performances By:
WITCHCRAFT / EARTHLESS / WITCH / GRAVEYARD / WARLOCKS / ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND / ANCESTORS / NIGHT HORSE / TK WEBB AND THE VISIONS

AT THE ECHOPLEX (DOWNSTAIRS)
1154 GLENDALE BLVD.
LA, CA 90026
$15 / DOORS AT 3PM / NIGHT HORSE AT 5PM

WOODEN FAMILY

Pic by Kimberli.

LOVE IS NOW

LET LOVE IN

NIGHT HORSE COMETH

NIGHT HORSE (Sam James Velde/ Cold Sweat Records) has just finished it's debut record for North Atlantic Sound / Tee Pee Records. Engineered and mixed by Mattias Shneeberger ( Obsessed, Sunn 0))), Gutter Twins, Goatsnake). 6 songs for the CD / EP Vinyl releases. 7 Songs for the Download / TopSpin releases.

The boys have begun playing live shows. Recently opening for Annihilation Time / Municipal Waste and Earthless / Titan in the last couple weeks.

NIGHT HORSE will be playing live this Friday 8/15 at the Relax Bar in Hollywood with Dead Child and Tweakbird.

As well as part of TEE PEE Records "Manifest Destiny Festival" on September 7th with WITCH, GRAVEYARD, WARLOCKS, WITCHCRAFT and more.

NIGHT HORSE have posted some songs on their myspace for your head-banging pleasure. So swing by and grab a listen, drop a comment, ride on....: http://www.myspace.com/nighthorsemusic

See you soon.....

LONDON DANCE OFF

pics by Camilla Jessen.

ENDTIME HITS

IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR

This pic was taken by Matt Camirand (Blk Mtn), bout an hour after Sharon Jones of The Dap Kings pulled Matt and I on stage to dance with her, and sing to us in front of 17, 000 people at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. Next to me is our gracious host Eva, and of course next to her is none other than 'Luda Cakes.' Sharon and The Dap Kings are in the background getting their 'eat on' after we all paid homage to Rastafari;)
Party time, excellent.

ALL YOU GOOD GOOD PEOPLE

IT'S IN THE WATER

STOCKHOLM SWEDEN, JUNE 26 2008......Awake for like 30 hours or something? Totally worth it. Gorgeous day!

NIGHT HORSE

Ladies and Gents of the Myspace Generation......ride on!

ADD NIGHT HORSE: http://www. myspace. com/nighthorsemusic

Tradition lays deep in the music of Los Angeles rock and roll group NIGHT HORSE. Featuring members of dirge soundscapists Ancestors and the vocal styling of Sam James Velde, formerly of explorative and adventurous rockers Bluebird and El Presidente of Cold Sweat Records. NIGHT HORSE bring a saddle bag full of heavy, raw and riffed out blues steeped in the likes of John Lee Hooker, Taste, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac or The Allman Brothers without a retro stitch. NIGHT HORSE reign in the past with a firm heel in the present, galloping next to like-minded contemporaries Harvey Milk (The Pleaser), Clouds or Doomriders. Delivering heavy testimonials harnessed with a twin lead guitar assault, NIGHT HORSE join hands with these brothers in arms.

NIGHT HORSE will debut 6 sonic hymns this fall, on The Colonel Records label. Look for us on tour and in a record store near you.

TRAINSPOTTING / INTERVIEW WITH LA RECORD

The fine folks at LA RECORD have an interview up with me, in regards to the records I like to play/DJ. Not to mention a podcast I did for them in addition.
Check it here: http://larecord.com/issues/2008/06/11/trainspotting-sam-velde/

Thanks LA RECORD.

-Sam

FREAKY FRIDAY

Come out and see one of L.A.'s better bands 'MAGIC MIRROR' play Friday night at Temporary Spaces.
Think Bad Seeds, Spiritualized, 16 Horsepower and The Pogues.....yep, it's that rocking!
DJ Short Shorts and I will be playing the jams before and after all night long!
Get Down To It!

http://www.myspace.com/magicmirrormusic
http://www.myspace.com/coldsweatrecs
http://www.myspace.com/vxxxn

WAY UP IN THE CANYON

GETTIN SOFT

It's a breezy day here in So Cal / LA...get into it

NIGHT TRAIN

This week I will be DJ’n in NYC.
Come on down and “Shake Your Money Maker.”

WEDNESDAY MAY 7TH
NY NIGHT TRAIN @ MOTOR CITY
127 Ludlow St
NY, NY
10PM--
http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/

SATURDAY MAY 1OTH
KC DC
90 N 11th St
Brooklyn, NY
8PM-12PM
http://kcdcskateshop.com/

OUT ON THE WEEKEND

BTTLS

BABIES MAKIN BABIES

STAY FREE

FREAK SCENE

NIGHT HORSE

The un-named band has been named.....NIGHT HORSE......

Stay tuned.

THE REST IS BLURRY

IMAAD WASIF

Ill be DJn this event, Its gonna be a good one.
-Sam

STOLEN BABIES

I had the pleasure of doing an interview for a great blog entitled "Stolen Babies." Check it here, and keep going back. Cody writes about good music.

http://stolenbabies.blogspot.com/

MUSIC AND MAGIC

HAM ON RYE

WED. APRIL 16TH 2008

HAM ON RYE presents......

12PM-IMAAD WASIF w/Two Part Beast
11PM-DARKER MY LOVE
10PM-CRYSTAL ANTLERS

DJ SETS BY: DJ Short Shorts (Little Radio) and DJ Sam James Velde (Cold Sweat Records)

FREEEEEE!
at CHARLIE O'S
501 S. Spring Street
LA, CA 90013

YA HO WA 13--TONITE --TOMORROW// NYC

YA HO WA 13 TONITE

4 // 8 // 2006

KNITTING FACTORY
NYC, NY
2 FLOOR EVENT!

Supported by: No-Neck Blues Band, Tom Greenwood (of Jackie-O Motherfucker), Spectre Folk

For those unfamiliar:
It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. By day, the Source Family served organic cuisine to John Lennon, Julie Christie, Frank Zappa and others at the famed Source restaurant. By night, in a mansion in Hollywood Hills, they explored the cosmos through the channeled wisdom of their charismatic leader, Father Yod. Father was an outlandish figure who had 14 “spiritual wives,” drove a Rolls-Royce, and fronted the rock band Ya Ho Wha 13, now considered by collectors to be one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time. This is Ya Ho Wha 13's only planned East Coast performance, and is not to be missed.

EXECUTIONER

Saturday April 5th 2008

DJ Short Shorts (Little Radio) and DJ Sam James Velde (Cold Sweat Records) will be playing records bathed in "pysch, punk, heavy rock, blues and garage" .....to the tune of stiff drinks all night long.

Verdugo Bar
3408 N Vedugo Rd
Glassel Park, CA 90065

FREE. 9pm til the end...

www.verdugobar.com
www.coldsweat.blogspot.com
www.littleradio.com

NYC EVENTS

I will be DJn Friday and Saturday night! Woooooo!

MARCH- HAIRBRAIN

Cold Sweat Records and Tee Pee Records Present:

H A I R B R A I N

A free event taking place the last Wednesday of every month. Featuring live performances and resident/guest DJs all night long.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 26TH

'ANCESTORS'

For those unfamiliar, Ancestors weave a textured and heavy sound not unlike Mogwai, Mono and the sonic bliss of later era Neurosis. They have just recently released their critically applauded debut "Neptune With Fire" on Tee Pee/North Atlantic Sound Records.

at LA CITA
336 S. HILL ST.
LA, CA

FREE // 21+ // 10pm-2am

A HORSE WITH NO NAME

More shots from the 1st show......