B L A M M O S

BLAMMOS & The Slackers!

blammos — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:29:43 +0000

We are so excited to be supporting one of our favorite bands of ALL TIME, THE SLACKERS, on the Bay Area leg of their West Coast tour!!! We’ll be playing three shows with them Friday Feb 10th – Sunday Feb 12th!

Friday Feb 10th
The Ace of Spades
1417 R St. (@ 15th) Sacramento CA (MAP)
Doors: 6:30 pm / $15.00 / ALL AGES!

Saturday Feb 11th
SLIMs SF
333 11th St, San Francisco CA (MAP)
Doors: 8:00 pm / $16.00 / ALL AGES!

Sunday Feb 12th
The Catalyst (in the Atrium)
1011 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz CA(MAP)
Doors: 8:00 pm / $12 adv, $15 door / 21+ sorry kids!

Please come out and see us, but mostly come out to see The Slackers!
We’ll have new T-Shirts!!!

BLAMMOS Music Store

blammos — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:55:13 +0000

For a complete, current BLAMMOS discography, go to our new, COMPREHENSIVE MUSIC STORE at Bandcamp.

You can purchase our two LPs:

The album we can’t afford to release…that you can’t afford to miss!!! (2011)

1. How do you know?
2. We’ll be free; We ARE free!
3. Bashful [rough mix]
4. In The Light (that’s where I’ll be) [demo]
5. Living with David Foster Wallace
6. I’m So Confused [demo]
7. Yr Love Is Cold [rough mix]
8. It Was A Lie [rough mix]
9. She’s Gonna Fuck You Over [rough mix]
10. Pretty Girl (come on and learn to dance0 [demo]
11. This Golden Rope [rough mix]
12. Girl of My Dreams [cellphone version]

Plus free BONUS TRACKS!
13. Roses & Daisies [demo]
14. In The Light (that’s where I’ll be) [slow version]
15. To Get By [demo]

It can*t be true. (2006)

1. I’m going to hell
2. Living with Ronald Reagan
3. No Lesson/No Answer
4. Big surprise 4
5. BYE BYE BYE
6. They Turned a Screw
7. The gun show
8. The moon
9. Stolen hrt
10. Farewell QC

Plus free BONUS TRACKS!
11. Living with Ronald Reagan [1980 mix]
12. The moon [disco-still-sucks-mix]
13. Whatz the Use? [ver 3.2]

AND get a free download of our Holiday EP collection!

It’s Christmas Everywhere (Except in My Heart) (2010)

1. It’s Christmas Everywhere (Except in My Heart) [2010]
2. I Don’t Miss Vermont (As Much As I Should) [2008]
3. Chanukah with A C [2006]
4. Rocketship to Heaven [2006]
5. (As Red As) Santa’s Suit [2004]
6. The Reason (For The Season) [2004]
7. Oh! Holy Night! [2004]

Go buy somethin’ why don’tcha?!?!

Saturday October 22nd, early show at The Knockout!

blammos — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:03:53 +0000

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22ND – AFTERNOON SHOW (4:00pm to 8:00pm)!!!

Alcoholocaust Presents

Knockout / 3223 Mission Street / btwn. Valencia & 29th St. / San Francisco

BLAMMOS (that’s US!)

THE BLOODTYPES (featuring FM Static from The Epoxies / from Portland)
http://www.reverbnation.com/bloodtypes
http://www.myspace.com/hemophonic

THE CUSTOM KICKS
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Custom-Kicks/187517715447
http://www.myspace.com/thecustomkickssf

THE WHOOSIE WHAT’S IT’S (Ex-Members of the Double D’s and two dudes from Pennsyltucky)
http://www.facebook.com/whoosiewhatsits

Doors open at 4:00pm / Show at 5:00pm / Over at 8:00pm!! -
EARLY SHOW!!!

$6.00 Admission / 21+ / No jerks

BLAMMOSTV in HD!

blammos — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:36:34 +0000

Since the ever-changing standards of YouTube made the quality of most of our videos obsolete, we have added a new playlist to our channel, featuring beautiful High Definition and High Quality versions of our best music videos!

BLAMMOSTV

blammos — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:38:22 +0000

Love our YouTube videos? Ever had trouble wading through all 70 of our videos (all that filler and bullshit!) to get to the good ones? Well wade no more! We’ve just reorganized all of our videos into neat little playlists that make browsing easier and fun!

MUSIC VIDEOS

BLAMMOS & FRIENDS

LIVE FROM OUR LIVING ROOMS

“COMEDY”

LIVE SHOWS

DOCUMENTARY

WEIRD STUFF

ENJOY!

BLAMMOS Show in Santa Cruz! May 26th!

blammos — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:00:02 +0000

BLAMMOS
Thursday, May 26th, 8 pm
THE CREPE PLACE
1134 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA (MAP)

With The Atom Age & The Groggs.

ALL AGES! $8! FUN!

Before there was BLAMMOS…there was The Lazy Songwriter.

blammos — Tue, 03 May 2011 08:27:00 +0000

When I lived in Burlington VT, back in late fall 2000, I bought a 4-track cassette recorder with my roommate Tyler Bolles. The plan was to start recording some stuff and get some ideas going. I thoroughly monopolized the thing though, and after a few months I bought out his half. For the first time in my life I was able to write songs that, for lack of a better term, were “good” or “real.” The 4-track helped immensely. And it lead me through a self-taught tutorial on recording. From panning, to bouncing, to mic placement, to EQing and mixing, my 4-tracker days were unbelievably formative and prolific for me. I started slapping the moniker “The Lazy Songwriter” on my demos. Not because my songwriting was particularly lazy – in fact I wrote and recorded about a song a day for awhile, in almost every style imaginable. From pop, to bluegrass and gospel, to punk rock, to experimental noise, to reggae, to hip hop and R&B. I was 20 years old, didn’t work very much, slept in till 1 every day and stayed up to watch the sunrise pretty often. Maybe laid-back is a better term. But “The Laid-back Songwriter” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Eventually I had about a set’s worth of material and got some friends together to try to play them live. Tyler joined up on upright bass, banjo and vocals, and David Stockhausen on drums, banjo and vocals. Yeah, there was a lot of banjo. We played our first show at The Radio Bean coffeehouse on May 3rd, 2001. That’s right, 10 years ago today. The show was well attended, and we had lots of fun. For the next year or so, we performed in and around Burlington (mostly at Radio Bean), recorded one full-length and generally had a great time. We didn’t rehearse that much, so we were sloppy. The line-up and instrumentation changed constantly. But, as embarrassing as some of the recordings are to me personally now…we sure had a lot of fucking heart!

So today, on the 10 year anniversary of our first show, I would like to present to you a recording of that show, made by our friend Tim Marcus — who was also the sound engineer for said show, my 4-track mixdown engineer and a one-time member of the band (for one practice that is) . It’s from a 10 year old burned CD, so unfortunately I was only able to rip a portion of the show onto my computer for your listening pleasure, but I got a lot of the good stuff. Also, I would like to digitally re-release our first and only full-length, The Lazy Songwriter and a compilation of random demos and live recordings called Anti-cruising Law & Other Favorites. If you were a fan or friend of the band, I hope you enjoy this musical stroll down memory lane, and if this is your first time hearing it…don’t judge too harshly! We were just kids!

I would like to thank all “official” former members of the band: Tyler Bolles, Ariel Bolles, P. David Stockhausen, Michael Scott Duplessis, Michael Piche and Tim Marcus. Plus all of the people who hung out with, recorded with, performed with or booked us over the years (during our original run or during one of our “reunion concerts”): Emily Day, Jordan Adams, Tony Shull, Dan Bolles, Casey Rae-Hunter, Lyle King, Marie Whiteford, Tobias Rower, Peter Burton, Dan Schwartz, Andrew Vick, Pat May, Nina De Leon, Alex Crothers, Ethan Covey and especially Lee Anderson for booking our first show and every show since.

Please feel free to listen to, download and share! The albums are compressed as .zip files, but they may take a few minutes to download. A few preview tracks are available to stream for each album as well. Enjoy!

-Arthur Leon Adams III

LISTEN: The Lazy Songwriter – Live at Radio Bean (5/3/01)

1. The Never Ever Song
2. I must be blind.
3. Through the TV part two
4. SLEEPY
5. Untitled (How many covers?)
6. Happy Birthday to Dave & My Dad
7. Beyond Belief (Elvis Costello & The Attractions)

Arthur Leon Adams III – vocals, guitar
Tyler Bolles – upright bass, mandolin, vocals
P. David Stockhausen – drums, banjo, vocals

Tim Marcus – sound engineer, recordist. The crackling noise coming from the acoustic guitar is a problem with the guitar’s pickup and is in the original recording. And it’s not Tim’s fault!

The Lazy Songwriter, The Lazy Songwriter (LP)
[RIGHT OR CONTROL CLICK TO DOWNLOAD .ZIP FILE]

1. The Never Ever Song
2. Back in Fashion [LISTEN]
3. SLEEPY [LISTEN]
4. Purple Blues
5. Naked Arm [LISTEN]
6. (romantic part)
7. We sang to Jesus [LISTEN]
8. Through the TV part two
9. R&R Star [LISTEN]
10. Girlfriend Punk [LISTEN]
11. I don’t want to talk

Recorded on 4-track by Arthur Leon Adams III, spring 2002.
Mixed and mastered by Tim Marcus at Milkmansound. ©2002 TLSongs.

Arthur Leon Adams III – vocals, guitars, piano, vibraphone, etc
Ariel Bolles – vocals, trombone
Tyler Bolles – vocals, upright bass, banjo, etc
P. David Stockhausen – vocals, drums, banjo, guitar

The Lazy Songwriter, Anti-cruising Law & Other Favorites (Compilation)
[RIGHT OR CONTROL CLICK TO DOWNLOAD .ZIP FILE]

1. Anti-cruising Law (live) [LISTEN]
2. (The One Who’s Gonna) Save The World [LISTEN]
3. ITCH [LISTEN]
4. I Fear YR Right
5. BIG LIE
6. accrega b
7. Money Off The Crutch!!! [LISTEN]
8. That thing we just did.
9. Under it [LISTEN]
10. When You Stare [LISTEN]
11. She’s an Angel (live)
12. The Weather
13. Pretty Girl (come on and learn to dance)
14. Some Romantic Part of the World
15. SOME DAYS [LISTEN]
16. ITCH (Live)
17. Baby, I’m Comin’ Around
18. She’s a Whaaaa???? (live)

Recorded on 4-track by Arthur Leon Adams III
Live recordings by Tim Marcus and/or Lee Anderson.

Performed by Arthur Leon Adams III, Ariel Bolles, Tyler Bolles, Emily Day, Michael Scott Duplessis, Michael Piche, Daniel Schwartz, P. David Stockhausen and Andrew Vick.

UPDATE!!!

A few more from the vaults!

SOBER (live at Radio Bean) [LISTEN]

SLEEPY (demo) [LISTEN]

This is Goodbye! (demo) [LISTEN]

BLAMMOS at The Knockout SF, Wed April 27th!

blammos — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:54:11 +0000

BLAMMOS
at The Knockout
3223 Mission St (at Valencia)
with The Undertaker & His Pals, The Punk Group and The Angel & Robot Show!
10 pm / 21+ / $6

We’re on last! Come out and part-ay!

Welcome…

blammos — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:14:11 +0000

To the NEW and IMPROVED BLAMMOS.com. Everything you need or want to know about BLAMMOS all in one easy to navigate location. Enjoy!

Fan Art!!!

blammos — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:14:21 +0000

We’re so lucky to have some amazing fan art from our very talented fans!

BLAMMOS Heart by Fiona B.

BLAMMOS Collage by Sabrina Villarreal.

BLAMMOS Logo by Fiona B.

BLAMMOS Pillows by Jenny Simeone.

BLAMMOS Pig by Nikolasa Gaytan.

BLAMMOS Ukulele Sketch by Todd Berman.

We Heart New BLAMMOS! by Todd Berman.