Davie Allan & The Arrows, X (Australian & Californian), The Other Half, Link Wray, The Electric Prunes, Flat Duo Jets, Steppenwolf, Cheater Slicks, Dead Moon, Warren Oates, Thin White Rope, The Sadies, Trio, The Pebbles & Nuggets collections, blah, blah, blah.....
Sounds Like
Here's a brief description of the Brenda Vaqueros experience: Think Mars Bonfire meets Morricone, or Hazelwood meets Hawkwind - except without any of the talent.
The Brenda Vaqueros as told by Kenna Burima
I play keyboards and sing in this band called The Brenda Vaqueros.
People ask me all the time what kind of music we play and the only way I can describe it is garage-rock-psychedelic-country. What that actually means is hard to say as I usually leave these kinds of things to our guitarist and vocalist Adam Kamis. He says it’s kinda like Mars Bonfire meets Morricone, or Hazelwood meets Hawkwind. Most of the time I have no idea what Adam is talking about. His musical knowledge is quite vast as is his knowledge of military history, which comes in handy when we have exhausted talking about music. The other guys in the band are pretty cool too. Daren Powell plays drums. He also plays in another band with me called Woodpigeon. We like to make fun of Woodpigeon at Brenda Vaqueros rehearsals. Steve Elashuk plays bass. He’s the most famous of the group having played in bands such as The Daggers, Wagbeard, The Neckers, and Falconhawk. There are others but I can’t remember the names right now. Brent Crosson plays guitar and sings sometimes. He’s the silver fox of the group and usually comes up with crazy ideas like dressing up as robots riding a rocket for our promo photo or dressing up as hobos for a short film called Oil City Showdown we did with award winning filmmaker James Reckseidler. I’d also like to mention that Oil City Showdown made its International debut at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2007. I think Brent likes to play dress-up, which is fine by me. I had joined the band initially to just play a couple of tunes for the ill-fated covers festival called Moustache Rock at the legendary Night Gallery. Sadly, Moustache Rock failed to launch that year (it was a tough year for the Night Gallery I recall), but I asked the Vaqueros nicely if I could stay on and play keys. They said yes, and since then I’ve learned a lot about garage rock, drinking beer, the genius of Pee-Wee Herman. While we were recording our 4 song EP, we realized that we could drink a lot more beer if we took the time to record a full length. So we went into the basement studio of Cam Hayden of Huge Ear Studios (?) and did just that. The finished product will be released to little or no fan fare on Friday, May 29th at Broken City. I’m really proud of the record because it features a pretty kick ass Leslie that we hauled into the basement (not the girl, it’s a speaker usually used with Hammonds). Anyway, the only way you can hear the album is if you have a record player. If you don’t have one, Brent Crosson is willing to dub the album onto cassette for you.
The Brenda Vaqueros are:
Brent Crosson - vox, guitar, Adam Kamis - vox, guitar, Kenna Burima - vox, keys, shakings, Steve Elaschuk- monster bass, Daren Powel – drumbs
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MONGREL ZINE #7 IS OUT NOW
The new Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine is full of spooky delights!
Haunted George schools us on Halloween sound effects and his
Garagepunk podcast Haunted Shack Theatre, King Louie charms us with
tales of stealin’ Lil Wayne’s wardrobe girl and drinking with Fats
Domino, Vancouver’s newest garage band Indian Wars find the best
skateparks, Inservibles tell us about Mexico City’s best tacos from
what is a shitty mechanics workshop during the day and taco stand by
night, a rare interview with the late Billy Van from The Hilarious
House of Frightenstein, vintage Halloween collector Mark Ledenbach,
plus Box Elders, The TVees, Hard Feelings, HYPSTRZ, The Orpheans,
Corpusse, Telekrimen, and tonnes more…
This issue includes Mongrel Zine Vol. 4 CD Comp with 28 tracks
including Bloodshot Bill’s “In the Graveyard…!” written especially for
this Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine!
Interviews with Demon’s
Claws, Red Mass, The Black Lips, Dead Ghosts, artist TrUdE, The Sunday
Sinners, Bloodshot Bill, Manic Attracts, Nardwuar the Human Serviette,
Gerard Van Herk (Deja Voodoo), Teenage Hookers, Petroleum By-Product,
Simply Saucer plus other lubricants like a tribute to the late Sky
Saxon, Mike Sniper (Blank Dogs), reviews, and a 25-track CD Comp of
the best new garage, punk, and rocknroll!
Just a reminder to listen to THE BRENDA VAQUEROS on our ALL CALGARY special episode of THIS GREAT WHITE NORTH. It's an ALL CANADIAN music show FRIDAYS 4:30-6pm CST on 91.7 KOOP FM in Austin, Texas. You can listen online at www.KOOP.org.
We truly had an great time. We felt like we had known you guys for years. We're trying to think of ways to get back there... I am excited to play your record, gotta unpack it.
Interviews with King Khan, The Spits, Pierced Arrows, The Dead Moon Story, Skip Jensen, Ratas del Vaticano, Chuck Violence, B-Lines, Rupert Bottenberg, CM Ruiz, The Speaking Tongues, plus an article on Stef Petticoat and a tribute to the late Cramps frontman Lux Interior. Also: Gary Pig Gold, Kirsten Easthope, an exclusive introduction by Bobby Beaton, reviews, more!
Hey guys (und gal), Thanks for the rad + rockin set at the Palomino a couple a' weeks back. We most thoroughly enjoyed your kick ass tunes and performance! Take Care
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