DON’T TELL BETSY’S HORRIFIC, MEGA-SCARY HALLOWEEN THING!

Hold onto your really scary hats, boys and girls. We’re presenting the bitchinest Halloween song ever to drizzle down a sewer pipe to rip out your neck flesh.

This is The Undead (You can’t much more Halloween that that, can you?) Guest vocals by Kat from Croatia. (If you close your eyes, and she lays on her accent thick, she sounds just like Dracula’s sister) This is scary fucking stuff! Gregg plays the zombie. There’s even a zombie in this video. We went all out for our Halloween theme. We spared no expense below 200 hundred dollars. This thing was massive. Scorsese would have shit his pants just contemplating the enormity of our grandeur.



Now some horrifying Halloween pics to scare you shitless.

Holy fuck!!! This guy is 61 this week. If you think you’re scared, imagine what he feels!

Kevin blissfully holding up “WATER FROM HELL!!!!” He went to drink it and it pounced down his throat like a demented cat and sucked out his uvula. (That’s not nearly as pleasant as it sounds!)

What’s that in his ear? Oh my GOD!!! Shove a fucking crowbar in there before it escapes and eats us all!!!!

“Oh NO!!!! The Christmas Wrapping Creature is eating Kevin’s face off. For the love of all that’s holy, somebody stop it!!!!!”

Sure they look happy here. This was just before Carissa stripped down to her underwear and a guy in a hockey mask cut off both her thumbs and shoved them up into her brain through her nose!!!! (Ellis did nothing to come to her aid)

The two on either side of me were mercilessly and indescribably slaughtered over a number of unendurable hours of agony and torment. Luckily I was spared.

Darrell would have gotten a picture of the acid drooling demon that burst up through the floor boards and tore Dan to pieces with it razor sharp, blood red teeth, but he couldn’t quite figure out the flash in time.

This is Carissa just before she plucked out her own eyes in a desperate attempt to wipe away the vision of Ellis’ bent-over-ass-crack from her decimated brain.

This is Kevin being possessed by a very mellow demon.

“Sure my eyes are glowing from the brimstone of hell’s darkest and unholiest furnace, but is my lipstick on right?”

“Nevermind, I found my mirror”

“How come the drummer is always has to be the blood sacrifice to the avenging gods? A bass player couldn’t have his throat slashed on an alter once in awhile?

“I wonder if bits of their flayed and roasted corpses would be a good pizza topping,”

“Shit, I think I just hacked up everyone with my big motherfucking axe, who’s going to take my picture, holding up their severed fucking heads?”

“Well, the votes are in. Guess who has to die?”

“I am Windinka, Goddess of the Dark and most savage and merciless of the Unctar! Buy the Undead MP3 now from Amazon or Itunes or you will feel the wrath of a million disemboweled screams. It’s only 99 cents. When you consider the alternative, it’s more than worth it.”

Don’t Tell Betsy (Acoustic) – Live at Room 5

Well, this was a night to remember. The acoustic version of Don’t Tell Betsy (the band minus second guitar and bass) took the stage for their premier performance and it was a magnificent success.

At times, the entire was quiet and listening to the lovely Carissa sing. How many bars have you been in where people have actually shut up to listen to the act on stage. It’s hard enough at a major concert to get the audience to pay attention.  They did three covers.  The stand out was Real Man.  Carissa has just the right bluesy tone to put this over big time.  Of the originals, I Am Your Waitress had the audience absolutely quiet as they followed the story.  Carissa did a little acting as she sang her way to the punchline.  A great job.  The boys did a very nice back and forth guitar/bongo piece The Way I Do.  There wasn't a moment that night where the other acts didn't wish they were somewhere else.  Bravo!

Here are a couple of songs from the show. We encourage everyone to come out to the next performance. Don’t worry, we will let you know what that will be.

Why Don’t You Call Me – this has a little bit on an island feel to it and Ellis’ bongos hit just the right note. Carissa’s dreamy, laidback singing is wonderful on this. And Kevin throws in some tasty guitar.

Stupidest Girl in the World – The sound isn’t quite as good on this, but a very nice version of this heartfelt ballad.


Don’t Tell Betsy’s latest single.



And here is Don’t Tell Betsy’s latest video. Enjoy the spectacle.

Room 5 Lounge Tuesday Sept 13

For all our fans out there - Don't forget our upcoming gig at Room 5 Lounge, in Hollywood this coming Tuesday evening at 9 pm. Be there!! We got room for y'all!! Bring your friends! $8 gets you in the door for a set of wonderful music. Support your local musicians!

**ATTENTION ALL DTB FANS**

Our first acoustic show is rapidly approaching NEXT Tuesday, Sept 13. We go on promptly at 9pm. Tickets are $8 at the door. Please come by and show the love! As an added bonus, we posted a few pics from our Trio de Betsy rehearsals.

 

Drum Roll Please

Don't Tell Betsy's acoustic trio has booked our fist gig at Room 5 in Los Angeles. The show date is Tuesday, September 13 at 9pm.We hope to see you there!

Coming to a venue near you....

Well, some exciting things happening on the DTB front! First of all, we are getting our set list really tight so that we can play for ALL our adoring fans in Los Angeles.We've also put together an acoustic trio so that we can play smaller, more intimate venues. This smaller group includes Carissa, Kevin, and Ellis. The songs sound fantastic and have really given new life to the songs we all know and love. I know what you are thinking: "how do I get updates on this fabulous band and their gigs?". Well, you can join our blog by becoming a "follower". Just scroll down the right-hand side of our blogsite and click on the "Join this Site" button.

To wet your appetite for DTB, below we have a few photos captioned by our very own Kevin...

Ellis contemplates whether lead-filled bongos were such a wise investment.

"I swear if Kevin says 'spank those bongos' one more time, I'll shoot him. No, I'll kill him. Then I'll shoot him."

Even with the headphones up all the way blasting AC/DC's 'Highway To Hell', Kevin still cannot drown out Ellis' bongo playing.

Kevin: "I swear to you guys - if I look at just the right angle I can see a little man living inside my guitar. I'm not kidding. Hey! He just waved at me!"

Ellis: "Ummm, Carissa....what did you put in those sausages?"

For certain, undisclosed reasons,  Don’t Tell Betsy very rarely schedules a rehearsal for a night with a full moon. (This photo captioned by Darrell and compliments of That British Place Rehearsal and Recording Studios.)

She Already Knows is up on iTunes and Amazon. Download today for endless plays of your new favorite DTB single!

And while you are downloading this single, be sure to download our other 3 singles:

On My Mind: iTunes
The Way I Do: iTunes * Amazon
The Undead: iTunes * Amazon

Kevin's Guitar Corner

Albert Lee & John Jorgenson

Canyon Club, Agoura Hills, CA

The other night I had the extreme pleasure of seeing guitar greats, Albert Lee and John Jorgenson at the Canyon Club in Agoura, CA. Nice venue if not just a tad outdated decor wise. But I mean that in a good way. It's not a hip Hollywood joint, with stainless steel or lots of neon lights and really loud thumping unbearable music. It's like a small House Of Blues, without all the pretentiousness and cost. In fact, during the dinner hours before the band actually took the stage, the music out of the house system was perfect. Nice selection of tunes and not loud! They had the good notion to keep the volume down so you could actually converse. What a concept. Lots of seating, in fairly comfy chairs, at tables, or a few couches scattered here and there. The three of us had a table just a bit left of stage about 10 -12 feet from the stage. We had dinner which was a little pricey, but from what I read about the joint the owner is good to his acts and he makes his money on food and drinks to keep the ticket prices down. These were only $20, so that in itself isn't too bad these days. I paid a ton more to see Clapton at the Hollywood Bowl, so this my friends, was a bargain and a half. I recommend the place to see anyone.

The food wasn't bad, as I opted for the cheapest meal on their menu. The beers at $7 for a Newcastle was a bit high, but the salad was fresh and nice greens and pretty good bleu cheese dressing, potato was good too, so overall it was a good night and great music. I will be returning soon I hope. I saw that Robben Ford is playing next month. The Canyon Club features a lot of great acts and I don't have to trek to Hollywood or somewhere and pay exorbitant parking rates. Plenty of free parking, and if you get there early you can check out all the antique stores in the little plaza next door to the Canyon Club.

What can I say about Albert, he's the guitarist's guitarist. Eric Clapton says he's his favorite guitarist. He's played with everyone from the Everly's to Emmylou Harris' Hot Band to Eric Clapton to every country Nashville player, like Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, Danny Gatton and Brent Mason. He's even tours with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.

When Albert and John took to the stage, which was rounded out by very good musicians - Jeff Ross on keyboards, Lance Hoppen on bass, and Jason Smith on drums, they opened up with a rousing rendition of Dave Edmunds' 'Sweet Little Lisa', to which Albert and John got their respective licks in. Great opener. They went onto play 'Big Hunka Love' by Elvis, 'Mystery Girl', a nice Orbison tune, and ended the opening set with Gram Parsons' 'Luxury Liner'.

Albert then left the stage, and John Jorgenson stayed out, and for those of you not familiar with him, he was a member of the Desert Rose Band, The Hellecasters and Elton John's band just to name a few of the people he's played with. Plus he's got his own Gypsy Jazz band in the style of Django Reinhardt which he really does justice to. He's an amazing guitarist, and a really nice guy to boot. He opened with a great rendition of George Harrison's 'Love You To', and was coaxing some really nice sitar sounds out of his Strat. He went on to play 'If It Be Your Will' and ended with his own tune 'Back On Terra Firma' from the first Hellecasters album.

Albert came out again and played up on an old Buddy Holly tune, 'Rock Around With Ollie Vee', Little Feat's 'Rad Gumbo' - a fav of his he plays a lot that I've seen online. Albert then brought out his daughter, Alexandra to sing 'She' by Gram Parsons. Really nice change of pace and a nice song, and she has a terrific voice. He ended his little set with Ray Charles' 'Leave My Woman Alone'.

Again, another little set of just Albert on piano and John on acoustic guitar, singing and playing 'Devoted To You' by the Everly's and 'Til I Gain Control Again' by Rodney Crowell.

The rest of the band then joined them for the last set, which included Albert's band Hogan's Heroes own 'Tear It Up', 'Well Alright' again by Holly, 'Evangelina', a nice Hoyt Axton tune and ended with Albert's most well known tune, 'Country Boy', which he wrote some forty years ago, and it gets better everytime I hear it. Both Albert and John had extended solos in this one joined on this by guest violinist Scarlet Rivera, whom some of you might know from Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. It was like a rockabilly heaven hearing these two play. For the encore they did a long wicked version of 'Orange Blossom Special', sort of in the vein the Hellecasters did on their first album.

If you ever get a chance to see these two in action, do so, you won't be disappointed, especially if you are a fan of this type of music or are just a guitar player. I still don't believe my guitar has as many notes on the neck as Albert's or John's, but I'll keep searching for them. And many thanks to John Jorgenson for the set list.

You can and should visit these fine guitarists on their own sites -

John Jorgenson

Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes

Want to learn some new guitar licks, or just listen to some great playing check these out.

Albert Lee with Hogan's Heroes and his newest solo album.

John Jorgenson's latest and in my opinion, the best Hellecasters album. Buy Today!

Radio Vickers' New Home

Hi everyone. Radio Vickers, which used to be hosted by this site, has moved to a NEW LOCATION of it's own. All of the old posts have been transferred over. Come visit RadioVickers.blogspot.com!

Buy This Unbelievable Slab of Pop Heaven!

She Already Knows is up on iTunes and Amazon. Download today for endless plays of your new favorite DTB single!

And while you are downloading this single, be sure to download our other 3 singles:

On My Mind: iTunes
The Way I Do: iTunes * Amazon
The Undead: iTunes * Amazon

Amazon, iTunes, on my mind, She Aleady Knows, The Undead, the way I do

Our New Single!!!! - Hear It Now!!!

She Already Knows is up on iTunes and Amazon. Download today for endless plays of your new favorite DTB single!

And here it is!!  A free trial listening.  What could be fairer than that?



And while you are downloading this single, be sure to download our other 3 singles:

On My Mind: iTunes
The Way I Do: iTunes * Amazon
The Undead: iTunes * Amazon

Don't Tell Betsy Trivia!

 "She Already Knows"

FAQ

Q: Who is “she”?

A: She is what’s-her-name.  The woman.  The one who already knows things.

Q: What does she already know?

A: She already knows what’s happening.  She already knows the score.  She already knows where the bodies are buried.  She already knows what’s good for her.  She doesn’t know much about art—yet--but she already knows what she likes.  She already knows when you’ve been sleeping.  She already knows when you’re awake.  She already knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for Christ’s sweet sake.

Q: What shouldn’t one tell Betsy?

A: Pretty much anything.  If Betsy asks, you can tell her name, rank, and serial number.  But that’s it.

Q: Where can one sample, buy, and possess forever “She Already Knows”?

A: On iTunes and Amazon.

Q: Shouldn’t one tell Betsy about this?

A: No.  Don’t tell Betsy.  She already knows.

And while you are downloading She Already Knows from iTunes or Amazon, be sure to download our other 3 hit singles:

On My Mind: iTunes

The Way I Do: iTunes * Amazon

The Undead: iTunes * Amazon

Our New Single!!!!

She Already Knows is up on iTunes and Amazon. Download today for endless plays of your new favorite DTB single!

And while you are downloading this single, be sure to download our other 3 singles:

On My Mind: iTunes
The Way I Do: iTunes * Amazon
The Undead: iTunes * Amazon

Drum Roll Please....

She Already Knows is up on iTunes and Amazon. Download today for endless plays of your new favorite DTB single!

And while you are downloading this single, be sure to download our other 3 singles:

On My Mind: iTunes
The Way I Do: iTunes * Amazon
The Undead: iTunes * Amazon

Shabby Road Studios Presents!! Don’t Tell Betsy – On My Mind

We finally have a new song ready to release to you, our dearest public! We may never know its like again. This, is rock and roll at its finest. It takes no prisoners. It makes no excuses. It sweats and bleeds like a Cathy Lee Gifford sweat-shop worker.
Ears have been specifically designed to receive the kind of aural information that we have produced to perfection in this recording. We spent decades researching this before we wrote and recorded a note of this song.  We took advantage of every new technology.  Thus, this song can be heard at many different levels, depending on what volume you set your computer speaker to. It’s multi-purpose, multi-platform and multi-orgasmic with a crossover format potentiality that dwarfs all known and yet to be unforeseen media platform, crossover purposes.
So without further ado, or pre-now momentary highlighting, here is the band, the song, the movement, the legend. (It’s also quite catchy!)
And after watching this classic video, please pass it on to friends and family so that we can become as big as Rebecca Black.



If you'd like to purchase this wonderful song, please click on the cute little icon below. Buy it friends, neighbours and the pets of your neighbours. Goldfish can be surprisingly musical, once you get to know them.



We’d also like to take this opportunity to welcome our newest member, keyboardist, Johan Sendjaja.

Also: Many thanks to Daniel K. for his invaluable instrumental and mixing contributions to the song. If you need stuff mixed, go to this guy. He can do it over the internet!


We’d also like to thank Aaron T. for his magical fingers on the piano and other keys ont his song. Aaron also does amazing keyboard arrangements and recordings over the internet. Hire him yourselves!


And monster thanks to Barry Fasman of Sanctuary Entertainment for his immeasurable help with recording the vocals and harmony arrangements. You have to be in L.A. to use his fantastic know-how but he will send you very rude emails, free of charge, over the internet.


PLUS!!!

Here is the latest Death of the Author Brigade video.

Simple Song


And here’s the latest song by Death of the Author Brigade:

'Boy Next Door' is a bouncy little tune about a girl taking "Being Neighborly" to the next level. Who lives across the lawn from you?



And here is Don’t Tell Betsy’s latest video. Enjoy the spectacle.


Plus!!! Here is the seventh spectacular Don’t Tell Betsy promo for our upcoming video: Collect them!

Plus!! Don't Tell Betsy's brand new single, "The Way I Do". Give it a listen.





If you'd like to own this song, it be available below.














And on I-tunes

Download "The Way I Do" from iTunes:

The Way I Do

Don't Tell Betsy

Shabby Road Studios About to Premiere New Song

Get ready folks!  A brand new Don't Tell Betsy song is about to make its debut.  Seventeen hundred studio hours in the making, this song promises to be everything that Andy Dick isn't.  No expense was spared in bringing you this recording that you're not going to hear in this blog.  But boy, when you do hear it, you're gonna say, "Wow! That is nothing like Andy Dick at all".  And you'll be right.  So without further ado, here are some pictures of Shabby Road Studios during the making of this epic song...which you'll eventually here, but not now.



The purest of waters is but putrefied sludge compared to the noble, blessed, musical heart of our beloved guitarist. That is why 4 out of five doctors recommend drinking Kevin's heart over Evian.



“Oh my God! I just remembered who I had sex with last night.”



Sometimes a man has to stand alone. But it usually takes Ellis two to three hours to realize that he’s standing alone. Then he gets quite lonely.



Although the rest of her is still single, Carissa’s left nostril was married at a very young age.



“Hmmm. If sound can’t travel through a vacuum, why are vacuum cleaners so darned noisy?”



“Seven thousand bands in L.A. and I have to end up with Dick and the three Wads.”



“Oh please, dear Lord. If you could just whack Ellis. He’s so very old and I hear Tommy Lee is single again.”




Ellis seriously considers buying a product called, “Groupie In A Tube.”



This is what the rest of the band looks like to Carissa.



Trying to contain Kevin’s talent in one room, is like trying to hold the wind in your hand. Like trying to kiss a river. Like trying to give nuggies to the moon. Like….ah fuck it, he’s really good.


“If I can just get into these two fuckers’ wills, then I am golden.”



The band’s massive investment in a bra-piercing camera proved to be a huge disappointment.



Carissa checks out the 793 pictures that the band has taken of her during rehearsal, trying to find one that includes her face.



This pretty well fucking says it all.

Here is the latest Death of the Author Brigade video.

Simple Song


And here is Death of the Author Brigade’s brand new song.

'Boy Next Door' is a bouncy little tune about a girl taking "Being Neighborly" to the next level. Who lives across the lawn from you?



And here is Don’t Tell Betsy’s latest video. Enjoy the spectacle.


Plus!!! Here is the seventh spectacular Don’t Tell Betsy promo for our upcoming video: Collect them!

Plus!! Don't Tell Betsy's brand new single, "The Way I Do". Give it a listen.





If you'd like to own this song, it be available below.














And on I-tunes

Download "The Way I Do" from iTunes:

The Way I Do

Don't Tell Betsy