Light bulb idea: I want to shoot a video for our first regional hit, Easy Rider with Decurrian Rapmusic rolling in a hooptie…
But he’s driving and I’m in Shotgun. We never address the fact he’s blind.
We released this song in 2007 on our first album, The 12th Street Blues. It always bummed me out that DC missed our wil era of music videos a few months before he retired from the group after nearly 8 years repping this song we started recording in 2004.
I like to share these visions. This song should have been a bigger hit, and I am trying to play it with my fresh new Soul United Allstars line up on March 9th up at Stevens Pass at The Foggy Goggle.
It would be nice to play this one with Eric Struthers in New Orleans May 11th, and I think it would kill in Jamaica.
Alex George, Jeremy From-Steel Beans, Daniel Oliver, Tom Wilkinson and I are running this Wednesday at Soul United HQ.
This is one of those songs I stopped playing because I want to bring it back with a fresh blade. I’ve played this songs a couple hundred songs. I love it, and I finally miss it.
Time to pull ‘Easy Rider’ out the ice box. But a simple clean video with DC and would be a smart move. He and I drove a lot of miles together on adventures visiting Jack Oliver Cramer at Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival and many other missions trying to get our name out there.
Don’t forget Decurrian…I can’t. I have been performing a number of his greatest verses since he left in 2010. I have had a beard ever since. Because it was time I had to step up and be The Man. He was a tgood man to lean on.
[Ed. Note – The 12th Street Blues album was a stone cold jam, check this song out too.]
I want to see if Brian J. Reynolds can convert this DVD from 2005 to a file we can upload for your viewing pleasure.
This stars the first line up of The Staxx Brothers when we were a college band back in 2003 and captures the first 12th St Blues session in 2004 that Dan Schmidt and Torry Hollimon were a part of at the studio at WSU that Paul Allen had just paid for.
So many stories. You get a front row seat at one of our biggest shows when future Bothers and Sisters I treasure forever, Ayo Dot and Angela Rickard were watching in an audience if thousands that shocked organizers when they came to see us open for then Kings of Seattle Maktub. That band featuring Reggie Watts and Thaddeus Turner were at their peak and this was our last hurrah for that version of The Staxx Brothers.
But I always come back. I’m the comeback kid. The end is just the beginning. For millions of future listeners these albums don’t even exist yet.
But the stories…
…Tina Turnbull has a few and she appears with us during the scene at MILFstock scratching records on hay bails.
Patrick Dundas directed and edited this short film under the alias Dazerus Jones, which I came up with to play on the name Lazerus, the biblical Zombie that rose from the grave. He was a bit conflicted by our wonderful intent and our questionable content.
We edited this film late at night in the Communications Department at WSU.
Jack Oliver Cramer protected this last known copy for over a decade and gave it to me to make sure it is not lost to the ages.
It was a cool band. All of them.
Now it’s time for The Soul United All-stars. But there is one more album to release, and when I wait years to show you something, it’s good. Real good.
…and it’s nice to see Decurrian Rapmusic on video with us. He missed my music video era that Ayo made quite memorable at every turn.
But this was our first movie. And it’s never been seen on the interwebs.
– Musician and writer Davin Michael Stedman has many ventures, such as the AMAZING blog, 100milesofmusic.com. Davin’s new song has become a global earworm and Caribbean dancehall hit. Listen here on Reggaeville: DAVIN MICHAEL STEDMAN & ANTHONY RED ROSE – FREE YOUR MIND FEAT. SLY & ROBBIE WITH LENKY MARSDEN. The video is now available on Youtube. His single with British band Sherlock Soul is available here.
