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Jamie Laboz

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HERE'S A COUPLE OF VIDS FROM PSYCH-CIRCUS 2
"Better Late Than Never" - The Modeens
"Empty Pockets" - The Modeens
Check out the rest of the show on YouTube
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CHECK OUT "THE GREEN ALBUM" - my psych-concept record
It's 2028 in a post world-war-three Venice, California. Amplified music, especially electric guitar, has been outlawed and replaced by soulless government-sanctioned, electronic DJ music.
Mutant dictator "The Darkness", owner of the night, covered the world in total darkness to keep it's people in a perpetual state of fear while controlling and suppressing their minds through bad, but readily available "Darkness Approved" marijuana.
The once thriving and creative "People of the Burning Sun", were now reduced down to zombie-like mole creatures, forever trapped in seaside refugee camps by tall towers and barbed-wire fences for their radical beliefs and creative desires.
Now all that exists is a world without light, creativity or love.
That is, until two brothers armed only with found electric guitars, are poised to and take down The Darkness, bring back the sun and restore life and love as it was once known. Although their mission to reach the Dark island is fraught with peril, procrastination & lots of self doubt, it ultimately succeeds.
Check out this magical, musical journey featuring tv & film composer Jamie Laboz (all guitars, vocals, bass, keys, percussion, writing, producing, mixing & mastering) and NYC drummer Aaron Comess (Spin Doctors, Isaac Hayes, Chris Whitley & Joan Osborne).
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Here's some reviews from around the globe...
"The fascinating and extraordinary "Look to the Ocean" is an outstanding piece where the organ's psychedelic sound coupled with the guitar
makes it the best song of all time - super!"

Peace Frog Magazine - Greece
"An excellent psychedelic pop record"
Larry Crane, Tape Op Magazine
"This has the be one of the best albums of the year!
The concept is awesome and the guitars kick"

Psychedelic Velveeta Radio
"It's in heavy rotation at my house - really great stuff!"
Ed Cherney - producer/mixer
(Stones, Dylan, Harrison, Clapton, Steve Miller, Ringo & Wolfmother)
"Flying Into the Sun is like the Byrds & Hendrix fucking in slow mo"
Rick Shaw Brown - vocalist of "The Misunderstood" - Thailand
"The kind of album you listen to all the way through - see for yourself!"
Mentes De Acido Fanzine - Spain
Please buy the CD today and support the arts
Only $12 - shipping included
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"THE GREEN ALBUM" DOWNLOAD IS 100% FREE FOR ALL
DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE COPY NOW (58MB)
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THE NEXT PSYCH-CIRCUS IS JULY 18TH - with THE SHIVAS!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/29/2005
Band Website: JamieLaboz.com
Band Members: Jamie Laboz - guitars, vocals, bass, electric sitar, lap-steel, uke, feedback-machine, organ, wurly, some percussion, various noises and assorted sounds

Aaron Comess
drums - "The Green Album"

Marc Slutsky
drums - "Better Late Than Never"

Influences: Air
Ars Nova
Herb Albert
Band of Gypsies
Beach Boys
Beatles
Beastie Boys
Beck
Blues Explosion
Bomboras
Bonzo
Boyce & Hart
Bowie
BRMC
Buffalo Springfield
Byrds
Johnny Cash
Charlatans
Clash
Cream
Creation
Dick Dale
Devo
Donavan
Doors
Electric Prunes
Eno
Flaming Lips
Grateful Dead
Hendrix
Howlin' Wolf
Humble Pie
Dick Hyman
Ill Wind
JB.s
July
Carol Kaye
King Tubby
Kinks
Kraftwerk
Adam Laboz
Lightning Hopkins
Love
George Martin
Marmalade
Meltones
Misunderstood
Monkees
Moog
Hugo Montenegro
Nazz
Billy Nicholls
Nuggets
Oasis
Outsiders
Lee Scratch Perry
Jean Jacques Perry
Pink Floyd
Pretty Things
Ramones
Rolling Stones
Seeds
Sid
Sly & the Family Stone
Small Faces
Sitar
Sonics
Squeeze
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Sugar Hill
Surfaris
Muddy Waters
Who
Thunderclap Newman
Trojan Dub
Ventures
VOLT-STAX
Who
Hank Williams 1, 2 & 3
Brian Wilson
Link Wray
Wray Men
Yardbirds
Zep
Sounds Like: Abstract, analog, backwards guitar, BBC, Beatles, Beach Boys, Big Muff, Bowie, DeLuxe, Doors, experimental, feedback, fuzz, home-recording, kind buds, LaBoz, lo-fi, Monkees, Nuggets, organic, Pink Floyd, psychedelic, retrofuturistic, sixties, stoney, spacey, surreal, tape, tubes, Telestar, trippy, Who, Zeppelin...

Record Label: Zobal Global
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW from PEACE FROG MAGAZINE

PEACE FROG MAGAZINE from Athens Greece, just published this interview in issue 2 - Thanks George for putting out such a cool fanzine with a sweet CD no less!When did you get into music and which group...
Posted by Jamie Laboz on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:12:00 PST

PEACE FROG MAGAZINE reviews THE GREEN ALBUM

This review is from issue 2 of PEACE FROG MAGAZINE from Athens Greece...Jamie LabozThe Green AlbumZobal GlobalBeing equally at home on every instrument (with the exception of drums), Laboz begins reco...
Posted by Jamie Laboz on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:42:00 PST

THE WAYBACK MACHINE

Check out this cool blog by friend, psych-fan/historian Valis called "Trip Inside This House" - where I’m taking a trip in The Wayback Machine to 1968...goto: http://tripinsidethishouse.blogspot...
Posted by Jamie Laboz on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:21:00 PST

GREEN ALBUM REVIEW from MENTES DE ACIDO

Mentes De Acido was kind enough to review the Green Album - I translated it below into English.Jamie Laboz - "The Green Album" - Zobal Global 2007This is the new solo concept-album from Jamie Laboz, g...
Posted by Jamie Laboz on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:15:00 PST

"TAPE OP" REVIEWS THE GREEN ALBUM

JAMIE LABOZ The Green AlbumA home-recorded concept album based around an idea of a guitar-lessfuture society? Shades of Rush's 2112? Jamie was in issue 57, with thestory of how he started writing inci...
Posted by Jamie Laboz on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:55:00 PST

M-AUDIO POWERED

The kind folks at M-Audio have added me to their artist roster. On the artist page I talk about using their sweet gear and the joys of home recording. check it outSee all their great gear at m-audio...
Posted by Jamie Laboz on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:51:00 PST

"TAPE OP MAGAZINE" INTERVIEW

Just recently I had the honor of being interviewed for "Tape Op Magazine", my favorite publication.I talk about making music for TV.Check out the article hereCheck out Tape Op the only creative record...
Posted by Jamie Laboz on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:27:00 PST

"ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN MAGAZINE" PODCAST INTERVIEW

Thanks to cool dude, great musician and senior editor Mike Levine over at Electronic Musician Magazine, I'm the featured interview on their monthly podcast. On the podcast you'll hear snippets of song...
Posted by Jamie Laboz on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:33:00 PST