Comments on: Brazil 2001: GODDAM SUNSHINE MUSIC – Secret Demos, 1997

By: demou

demou — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:54:13 +0000

In reply to Bill Roper. Thanks for the update, Bill! Great to hear you're still making music. Share a link when the album comes out.

By: Bill Roper

Bill Roper — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 07:49:55 +0000

Amazing to find this in the dark but wonderful recesses of the internet! This was such an energetic and damn fun band to be a part of – and I am still pretty blown away with how much sound we generated as a 3-piece.

I’m still in the video games industry (year 26) and still making music with my weird beer-swilling folk band The Poxy Boggards. Our 12th album comes out this year (coronavirus be damned) and in a strange bit of cosmic synergy I wrote a song for our last album called Open Your Bananas From the Bottom. Some fruit just can’t be musically delved enough, it seems.

By: Jim Santo

Jim Santo — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:21:16 +0000

In reply to Bernard. Thanks for the background, Bernard!

By: Bernard

Bernard — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 06:27:45 +0000

Jim, Thanks for digging up this collection! This was a fun-as-hell band to be in. Tahiti 96 was named after a big swell from Tahiti in 1996 and wound up being licensed for a surf-themed movie or two. Some of the songs have survived in one way or another. Par Avion, my current surf-flavored project, plays Tahiti. I eventually worked a crazy version of the Immigrant Song with Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction) who suggesting a reference to the Get Smart theme at the end. That’s a limited edition vinyl tidbit – almost all gone although I found a copy of it in a record store in Belgium in 2013 while on a European tour as a member of the Insect Surfers. Crazy eh? Dan Shulman of Garbage was also on that record. Google “Monk With Gun”. Later on, The MiGs, a high energy instro band that had a revolving cast also slayed that piece of music with Jimmy Paxson and Jamie Danesh really doing some damage. I digress. Of Brazil 2001’s former members, Bill Roper has long been involved with the gaming industry and Larry “Lorenzo” Taube continues to play drums. He and I are actually meeting soon to possibly collaborate on some film and TV music. My current live activities revolve around Par Avion, WTFUKUSHIMA (with Fur Dixon of the Cramps) and an April tour with the Fuzztones in Spain.
Thanks again!
– Bernard Jan. 4, 2017