Phat Tuesday Report

My long-destined collab with Mista Killa Watts at Senor Bello's Compound in SF finally came to fruition last week. Despite San Francisco's distance from New Orleans and the potential gap in understanding and celebrating Mardi Gras... 'twas a Phat Tuesday...

Outlaw Dervish sounded great (as widely confirmed by Senor bello and others!)

... we especially blew the lid off of Tuesday night with "We Need Each Other" which lofted powerfully out of our second set. Killa dropped Dabloons from the ship's upper deck as a band of East Bay Super Women arrived and got the dancing started proper. Miss Mardi Storm, Laurie Mimosa, Amy Seidman and others held down the Captain's quarters , taking to the main deck for time to time to assure the passengers of our course and the weather held forth, right up until the moment somebody could be heard to shout, "Land Ho" from the leeward bough.

The band swayed in and out of written material and improvised sounds and made love to the airwaves and trusting Tuesday night party-goers in the newly opened 'warehouse-a-torium'. During the set, Daniel filmed the band and we will be looking that over real soon to see what actually happened, according to the camera... and will be adding the footage to the potential screening material for our up-coming Film and Music Series which we are planning as a new Under-Ground Indie Monthly.

This was Travis Porter de Leon's final show, on an official level anyways, with O.D. and the Samurais of Sound. He is moving on to his own projects , including Band of Mystics. Jason Parmar, of multitudinous acclaimed projects, including, most recently Eliyahu & Qadim , Liquid Gardens and Tina Malia, will be joining our Live line-up beginning with March 7th's Groove Garden show in Fairfax. We are excited about the shift in gears and also had an ace time acknowledging 'Drummer Travis' and his contribution and we are clear that we will want to collaborate somehow in the future. In fact, we closed Senor Bello's after Justine Till arrived and we sat talking and sharing until 4am - past Daniel Killa Watts bed-time to be sure, and slowly wandered out into the early morning, one more great night under our belts and looking forward to the next voyage... deep in the kind of closeness that comes from making music together, sharing what we love and loving what we share

See You Soon, O.D and the Samurais of Sound!!!