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Thanks for all the support of Samples fans worldwide over the past several years. The Samples have seen and absorbed every word of encouragement and joy you've sent through this page, and as things change and grow, so has the commitment to acknowledge and return all your good thoughts for The Samples music. This page will exist to keep you updated on any news in the future and for your comments and messages to The Samples. This page has been maintained with love and care for the past three years by Peace in Colorado. To contact Sean or any other Samples member directly, please. click on their myspace icons in the friends section, or at [email protected].
Personal message from Sean:
Dear Folks,I want start by saying that I may be able to write songs and play a guitar but my spelling and grammar has never been my best asset. I am usually pretty good however in getting my point across none the less. So if you notice some words out of place go easy on me. I am writing this email on a beautiful spring Vermont night way up on the 45th parallel. Lake Champlain is outside sleeping and I have a few updates regarding The Samples.The long and winding road for The Samples has ended. Outside of possibly playing a few rumored dates with the original line up next fall, The Samples will be no longer. I have also canceled any and all upcoming samples dates. I sincerely apologize for the recent cancellations, I have only canceled two shows in 22 years and I always do my best to prevent this anyway possible.From all the beautiful landscapes across America, to the bus engine roaring under my bed. It’s been a long and beautiful ride with endless and difficult ups and downs that I would not trade for anything. I put my heart and soul into every show, and on every record. I hope that it translated. I feel a bit like Forest Gump when he stopped running, turned around and said “I think I am going to go home now”. I have been such a driving force in The Samples that I never stopped to notice how I have neglected many aspects of myself and many of the other things that used to really make me happy.Such a beautiful thing so unprotected, endangered, rare and one of a kind!I welcome change, perseverance and any ideas to incorporate into my solo career. I am very much exited to pursue many different and new challenges.I have appreciated all of the mail over the years, and I thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart. Thanks so much to the field staff for all of your wonderful help along the way. Thank you Shee Shee Kramer for your entire fan related support and your third eye.I would love to get playing as soon as possible with a host of great musician friends of mine. Having said this, I am currently filling in my summer and fall dates right now. I can even play living rooms! If you are interested in booking me, please contact me at [email protected] you live in the Vermont area, I am also cleaning out my samples storage space. Everything must go. Lots of samples memorabilia and a bit of music gear for those who may be just starting a band or you are already in one. For more info on this write me as well at- [email protected] am also selling my electric guitar that I have solely used for the last year and a half. It’s a real beauty and I hate to see it go. It still has the strings on it from the last Samples show.I can sign it or not, and it goes to the highest bid starting at $500If you are interested please write me at [email protected] have also recently purchased a web cam in hopes that I could offer guitar and vocal lessons online to those of you who have always wanted to play or sing but did not know where to begin. It’s economical, it does not waste fuel, and I am one hell of a teacher. All you will need on your end is a guitar, web cam and a computer.I will be immediately working on my solo CD and communicating via the Internet and keeping everyone up to date on its progress.I have put up 421 Samples related videos on you tube, documenting the last 22 years of touring and recording. Feel free to go back in time and see all the crazy places I have been.http://www. youtube. com/thesamples I am also looking for some really great attorneys and accountants who would be willing to work pro bono until I get back on my feet.
Please contact me at [email protected]
Sincerely,
Sean Kelly
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”Hunter S.Thompson
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Love The Samples video non-sequiters? Check out rare and humorous videos by Sean "Ed Wood" Kelly and friends on Youtube at Seankelly205
"Sad World"
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Visit Karl Dietels's myspace page for links to make his SPANKING NEW SOLO PROJECT your own. Also, be on the lookout for Jared Johnson in his own musical offering, The Johnson Five.
Ad astra per aspera:
To the stars through trials. -Latin epithet
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Member Since: 8/19/2005
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Sean Kelly: Lead Singer & Guitarist, fruit bat, bird afficianado, poet, all-around deep guy, defender of Nature, creator of love through music, prone to random acts ;

Bill Mutchler: Drums, Percussion, glassy-eyed look and Neon Hat, jokester of changing hair, tallest, builder of bird houses;

Jared Johnson: Bass Guitar, occasional keyboards, vocals, quiet enigma, great big fuckin' smile, also secretly plays drums;

Karl Dietel: Keyboards, vocals, team spirit, ladie's favorite, humor, gusto, and looking like the Six Flags guy

Mike Montrey on rhythm guitar and that fresh new band member smell
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Sean reunites with old pal Charles at The Fox.
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Samples Song List
Heard them all?
Heard them all LIVE?

14th and Euclid Across The Sea African Ivory After The Rain Another Bargain Another Disaster Anymore Anyone Area Code As Tears Fall As The Moon Falls Over Ireland Beautiful Girl Big Bird Birds of Paradise Birth Of Words Black and White Blue Brown Eyes In The Sun Buffalo Herds and Windmills Carry On Castle Walls Class of 1979 Close To The Fires Could It Be Another Change Dad Darkside Did You Ever Look So Nice Dinosaur Bones Empty Angels Everytime Falling In Love Feel Us Shaking Finest Role Flying For Everyone Foreign Countries Going Through Changes Great Blue Ocean Had I Known Heaven Here and Somewhere Else Hypocrite I Can Feel You I Remember Dying I Want To Get Drunk Indiana Information Inside Out Landing On The Sidewalk Last Drag Last Summer Learjet Light House Rocket Little People Little Silver Ring Lollipop Lonely Soul Long Walk Home Losing End Of Distance Lost Children Love and Roses Lullaby Madmen Mary Me Myself and I Moves Me Like A River My Guitar My Town Nature Nature Of The Beast Nevers Nothing Lasts For Long Ocean Of War Old Man in The Moon Overthrow Pain Prehistoric Bird Purple Rose (Garden Ghost) Radio Song Sacred Stones Sad World Save it For a Rainy Day Sea of Broken Hearts Seany Boy Seasons in The City Seventeen Shes An Exception Shine On Smile For The Camera Streets In The Rain Still Water Suburbia Summertime Superstar Take My Heart Taking Us Home Taxi Too Young To Die Tree Of Our Shade Waited Up Walking Home Walking Through the Snow Warm and Sunny Water Under The Bridge Water Rush We All Move On Weight of The World When Its Raining When the Day is Done Who Am I Wild River (Colorado) Wont Be Back Again World Of Machines Young And Free

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Influences: Neil Young, Beatles, Jackson Brown, Bruce Hornsby, Marilyn Monroe, a touch of tequila, nature, and LIFE
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." ~ John Muir
Sounds Like: petals and rain landing on the sidewalk, tears falling off our faces, little silver rings turning to gold, another starry night above us, lighthouse rockets

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Mail from the best fans ever!!

Sharing some Samples mail with our beautiful friends! Keep it coming! ____________________________________.  Just a quick thank you i just wanted to let you know that the sound of the voices and ...
Posted by The Samples on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:51:00 PST

Fall 2006 Update

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another Anotole France..and so begins the transition from the road to writing. With the exception of a few isolated...
Posted by The Samples on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:41:00 PST

Samples Flavor

The Samples Bio Denver, CO  As the Samples celebrate their twentieth anniversary this year, it's tempting to write their history in an incredibly dramatic fashion. Why, you can almost imagine t...
Posted by The Samples on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:05:00 PST

Musical Family Tree!

by Sean Kelly   1980Sean moves to northern VT                            ...
Posted by The Samples on Wed, 24 May 2006 09:39:00 PST

Rehearsing for Life - Lyrics

Lyrics to all the new songs from our New Samples CD Rehearsing for life Cheers, Sean                    ...
Posted by The Samples on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:32:00 PST

New Album News

From redeyeusa.comRedeye RecordsThe Samples Rehearsing for Life From the opening salvo of My Guitar to the closing anthem, Moves Me like a 'River, Rehearsing for Life will be on veryones Top 20...
Posted by The Samples on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:44:00 PST