Anton Long, who has helped in too many ways to list (including taking photos, videos, and regularly volunteering to roadie and transport drums), but also he for lending his vinyl copies of Napalm Beach’s Teen Dream and Movin’ To And Fro to transfer to CD.

Jason and Tarrah Moore for roadie help and for letting us copy their extensive catalog of Napalm Beach, Snow Bud, and Chris Newman albums on CD, and for letting us scan the album art off of their original Snow Bud cassette so that we could make a t-shirt. They have also photographed us and taken a lot of video footage.

Matt Loomis, ex-Napalm Beach roadie, for lending us his rare never-been-played copy of Rumbling Thunder (Napalm Beach & Dead Moon live in Germany) to transfer to CD. (Which we plan to do, very soon).

Bob Stewart for donating his copy of Napalm Beach’s 1984 “Pugsley” cassette.

Larry Massengale for holding on to and returning several of Chris’s albums including Napalm Beach Thunder Lizard and the very rare Snow Bud Stoned and Alone as well as the Snow Bud Vegetable Matter cassette.

Eric N. Danielson for researching and writing a (still-unpublished) biographic essay and creating a full discography.

Marcus Prem for researching and offering edits to the discography, as well as collecting just about every album Chris has done.

Jeff Larson for stocking Chris’s albums, actively working to sell them, and for selling us the last handful of original copies of Napalm Beach’s 1993 Curiosities at a very low price so that we could re-sell them, and also for writing the first ever reviews of Boo Frog’s first two albums.

Greg Sage and Zeno for getting Napalm Beach started, keeping Rock & Roll Hell in print, for mailing us the album master, and especially for 1. not taking any of Chris’s publishing, and 2. paying royalties to Chris and Sam.

Jack Endino for engineering the latest Snow Bud, mixing/mastering some of it on his own time, and also for recording a 1985 Napalm Beach performance off the radio, and 25 years later, digging it up, burning it to CD, and mailing it to us. (Among other forms of support.)

Everett True for being the most honest, original, and fearless music critic ever.

& always, our families for providing us the foundation we need to work and survive.

These are just a few… and just from this past year.
I know there are many more & I will add to this.
Where Would We Be Without Thee?
WE ARE BLESSED.

Boo Frog is playing Kelly’s Olympian Thurs August 12 with Mollybolt and Minty Rosa. 10pm 21+. And then we are not playing for a while.

Chris Newman Undead solo acoustic Fri Aug 13 and Fri Aug 20 at Hobnob Grille 33rd & SE Morrison, 8-10 PM Free, all ages and Sat Aug 14 at Eugenio’s 8:30-11 PM 35th & SE Division. Free, all ages.

Erika Meyer solo electric Fri Aug 27 at Steinhaus, 82nd Avenue and the NE corner of S.E. Division. 21+ 9PM, opening for some rock bands including The Decliners.

Snow Bud and the Flower People is playing Sat August 21 Guitar Centaur Parking Lot Show w/ Hairspray Blues, Dartgun, Thee Headliners, etc. 2pm-7pm. BYO Free, all ages.

Snow Bud is making t-shirts! They will feature the design from the original Snow Bud cassette art and should be available by the time of the Centaur show.

Napalm Beach 1985 Teen Dream, which was made available as MP3 download in July, will be available as on CD-R later this month.

Napalm Beach 1983 Rock & Roll Hell to be released on vinyl soon by Burka for Everybody Records.

Napalm Beach will perform a reunion show at Club Satyricon’s final rock party October 30. Pierced Arrows are also on this bill. Others TBA

The music is raw and timeless, psychedelic and trippy: all fuzzed guitars and mean gruff male vocals and Dead Moon-flecked female. One suspects there’s only a minimum of musicians playing, because Boo Frog clearly understand the way silence and the space between the silences can unsettle. There’s no bass. Why would there be? Why would there be? Reverb, as ever, is their queen and castle and legacy and floating jetsam pushing aside the barges of woe.

…This seems like everything The Racounteurs could be, but are not in any shape or form. I kept expecting ‘Crushed’ to break into 13th Floor Elevators’ ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’. Boo Frog are hard. Boo Frog are heavy. Boo Frog crush.

Read the entire review (with links) here: Music That I Like: Song of the day – 128: Boo Frog

Divining Rods, Chris Newman Experiment, Lost Acolytes, and Serpentone are no longer active

how to get there:
Eugenio’s
3584 Southeast Division Street (map)
Portland, OR 97202-1562
(503) 233-3656