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Vocals by Locals

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About Me

We shot our SCARY GUY video with a photo camera by the train tracks in Montecito, CA. We shot our JOHNNY DEPP video with a photo camera at the Santa Barbara Mission and Harbor. Hope they make you smile!

ABOUT THE BAND:.....Well, you see, we're not really a band...we're a concept; a big bunch of Santa Barbarian songbirds--mostly teenagers--who've banded together to record and perform songs penned especially for us by Lessia Bonn; ringleader/songwriter/producer and sometimes even personal shrink hahaha.

There's quite a few of us, we're all friends--so sometimes more than one VBL girl will record the same tune--yay for variety!!! Lotsa voices--tons of choices---Our goal: to mix up the system a bit, change the formula--getting songs out there in an original, creative manner as a group of fun-loving, singing-loving friends.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/30/2007
Band Website: VocalsByLocals.com
Band Members: TO BE CLEAR: WE ARE NOT A BAND!!! And now that we've covered that: Rachel Sand, Katja Decker-Sadowski, Jessie Bridges, Viva Lee, Janna Min, Zoe Gray, Carolina Beltran, Madeline Larson, Mitsi Gamble, Melina Hayum
Influences:

Quirky chords, messy places, duffel bags, large coins, the French. Monkey thoughts (long story), devine dreams, seein' the funny side - having faith that it'll all work out because it just will. Best friends, awesome photographs, high drama unfortunately sometimes, but mostly, the ability to endlessly chill; an open heart, being brave, being silly, sky-diving, tennis balls, pirates. Coldspring's tavern, long insightful conversations that sometimes lead everywhere and, once in a while, nowhere in particular, laughing out loud, a room full of half-asleep teenagers still in slippers, Danielle's big gold pick up truck. Brattiness once in a while, (think of it as pepper), nice guys that don't finish last. Bad boys you can tame, but once you tame them, honestly, they can be kind of boring. Remembering that. Feeling really great about absolutely nothing - and everything - 'cause hey, we all know we pick our moods. The Big Lebowski, jumping jacks, bright red uggs. A great cup of coffee. Paris, France. And knowing that whether we think we can - or we think we can't - we're probably right..............FAVS: John Mayer, Nick Drake, the Stones, the Beatles, Feist, Indigo Girls who should, by the way, be more famous because they're awesome, Joni Mitchell is in our blood like holy wine, Dan Fogelberg -- he reminds us of Big Sur, Elton (we named our dog Elton), our ringleader claims the balooz make her happy, anything rock 'cause it rocks, lots of stuff truly except for maybe jazz which is kinda complicated and has no lyrics and classical because we had to practice too much piano as a kid. Also Lyle Lovett is a hoot. Justin because he goes around and we share the same drummer. Bruce, Depeche Mode; hi, Martin! Lyle Lovett. I bet you're not even reading this long list. Does anybody read down all these long lists? Jeez, there's just so much to list...and please don't forget Trace Adkins. Nothing like a cool cowboy who can pen a tune. Seriously.
Sounds Like: magic
Record Label: Big Crew Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

out of the sky

A cool song falls out of the sky sometimes -  'n lands right there on my lap! 'n other times it feels more like a friendy fairy's shown up out of the blue whisperin'...
Posted by Vocals by Locals on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST