STUDIO TANS AND THE PERFECT PRESCRIPTION

It's 6:30pm, still light out, but inside the Echoplex LA psychedelic music festival Echoes West is already in full swing. We just played and are checking out one of the next bands, doused in those pretty, oscillating projections. It's a great time, but the tall, lanky guy next to us is not well. In the last few split-seconds he has gone from a passable upright, wide-eyed sway to a dangerous backwards lean and now gravity is rapidly sending the stone floor the direction of the back of his head.
No reaction. He just keeps going, drops backwards like a tree, his hands still in his pockets. Smack! We pick him up, sit him on the nearest chair and get security to get him a water.
Their response is quick… and cold. They give him the water, make sure he can stand, and then immediately throw him out..

Hey all. It's been a while again, and a lot has happened. We spent a "studio summer" and, as a result, don't have LA tans. In fact we re all rather pale, but we do have an album! Nine songs are recorded and mixed and awaiting artwork, a title and of course a release date.

For this, our first full-length outing, we turned our lens on the world and the scene immediately around us. The pulse we feel from "our LA", the life and space we know. Away from soft-focus cliché and sun-drenched oblivion, to where the dream has a different meaning and sometimes takes a wrong turn into the electric night.

During these sessions the writing process opened up a lot and, in part, shifted from the "Magic Garage" studio to the rehearsal room with all four members involved. We really dig the results and hope you will, too. A taster, in the form of new track "Unhypnotized" with the accompanying video (once again directed by Arian Soheli), will be released in the next few weeks.

Of course, even in the midst of all this, we needed to come out to see you all and play. Our second from last show at Bootleg was truly fun! Apart from the little episode where I had to "mug a mugger", as someone put it, after I spotted a guy trying to make off into the night with our beloved Hagström bass. It was a scary moment, a bit of a stand-off, but in the end no one got hurt and the bass is back.

Then, this weekend, we played the epic "Echoes West" festival, an all-day extravaganza of psychedelic music, good vibes and expanded minds in and around the Echo and Echoplex here in Los Angeles. Great stuff! So many of you came out early to see our show and the rest of the evening was an absolute blast, too. Silver Chords rocked, Spindrift rolled, Strawberry Alarm Clock wafted, Dead Meadow riffed, all drenched in amazing lights and projections. We loved it, and we loved being up on that stage.

Bring on Vegas next week, Sat 9/15, for another great festival. Neon Reverb! And stay tuned for more show dates tba, including the LA release party for our "Unhypnotized" single and video this October.

It's now 10pm, Strawberry Alarm Clock are in full swing. It's good stuff, but I like my psychedelia a bit more 21st century, so I go and sit down to have a chat with a lady friend. A few minutes into this I feel someone's eyes upon me from the next table over. It's the guy that passed out earlier. He's back! And he's grinning at me from behind some seriously altered-state pupils. What can I say, some folks love their medicine! The good news is this time he's sitting down.