Blood Beach Interview
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Blood Beach
By H-Dawg | March 10, 2010
photograph by Robert Allen Weller
Interview: Blood Beach
I met with the members of a cool newly formed band who now call themselves Blood Beach, after they recently received a cease and desist letter from an organization who held the copyright to their previous name, Whale Warrior. The band has four members; Shayne Wright, Camella Weedon, Cody Seals, and Patrick Francis. We all met up at Billy Rays Tavern, off MLK for some cheap drinks some band information.
Since I had only really met Patrick for a minute at an Orca team house show a week prior, I wasn’t sure who else I was looking for or if I would even recognize them. Fortunately, we found each other and met up at the back table where it was quiet. Patrick had to leave early to go to some weird job that he didn’t seem too happy to be going to so I took the opportunity to get some information about him first. Patrick plays bass, sings and plays guitar and has only been in the band since last November. Shayne first met Patrick at a Wooden Shjips show, and eventually asked Patrick if he played bass to which he responded “No not really. I’ve never played bass before but I probably could,” so Shayne said “Come over and we ‘ll check it out,” and he came over and was awesome.
Moving on to the other talents in the band, Shayne, Camella, and Cody, all moved to Portland from Denton, a small college town around Austin, TX. Although the three had previously played with each other separately as duo’s, once they arrived in Portland they decided they wanted to form an actual band.
Shayne, who was voted by the highly democratic band members as the most responsible of them all, provides vocals, guitar and electronic stuff. Cody is on vocals and plays the drums while Camella rotates between mandolin, organ, saxophone, theremin, and singing.
Cody and Shayne are originally from a dull and boring town built on an ancient flower mound in Texas called “Flower mound” where apparently there are just enough females for every male. The two have been BFF’S since 2nd grade. Shayne, Camella and Cody currently live together in a very crowded house where the band practices or “jams” about 3-4 times a week in their basement studio. They would like readers to know that although they like to jam they are not a “jam band ” but rather a party band. Blood Beach is run like a democracy and is not about controlling people, they believe in peace and an equal parts idea. When Shayne writes a main riff or chord progression the others add their special stuff as a collaborative–whoever has the idea for the song(s). When asked why they play music and what goals they have as performing artists, Cody replied “I want to play shows everyday and don’t want to do anything else–just play shows everyday.” Camella added “I don’t care if we don’t get paid I just want to play shows every day too.” I think we all might of had a bit too much PBR by this time but nevertheless one thing is clear, this band wants to play all the time everyday.
These lovely handsome musicians support many local Portland places such as: Floating world comics, The Rose Quarter, and Laughing Horse books and comics. When asked what they would do with $100 big ones at this very moment they replied that Camella would “buy a new amp but can’t with a hundred dollars, so I would buy a really crappy violin.” Shayne said he would buy a louder amp, Cody said he would buy a new drum head and get the name of the old band off and put the name of the new band on it. Needless to say, I had fun with these guys, they are good people.
You can check them out at http://www.myspace.com/bloodbeachUSA, or email them at BloodBloodBeach@gmail.com
Upcoming Blood Beach Shows:
March 26th at Laughing Horse books with Grandparents
April 9th at the Pink Room with TBA
May 6th at Ella St. Social Club with TBA
Topics: Interviews, Music News, PORTLAND |
June 12th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
I love it!