Category: Snow Bud

Snow Bud and the Flower People

The Stranger on Snow Bud – 10 February 2011

Snow Bud and the Flower People, Remedios the Beauty, Green Handshake, Keith Cook

(Funhouse) You’ve gotta have old-fashioned, Monster Squad–style Wolfman ‘nads to name a song “Bong Hit,” especially if you go the full distance by starting the song with a bubbling sound effect and ensuring the lyrics are entirely about doing hits from a bong (“Bong hit/It’s the shit”) without even making the most perfunctory gestures toward a high-minded metaphor or two. But Snow Bud and the Flower People have ‘nads to spare; they’re as subtle as a Cheech and Chong movie, but they back up all the weed talk by being a super-solid garage-rock psychedelic band. They’re like Reverend Horton Heat’s younger stoner brother, barreling out of the garage to bring weed and hot licks to the people. PAUL CONSTANT

Snow Bud – Thurs 10/21 @ Satyricon

Snow Bud at Satyricon - October 21, 2010From Willamette Week: Kleveland, Snow Bud and the Flower People, Hogwild, Slackjaw

[DOOBIE JAMS!] Snow Bud and the Flower People, fronted by Napalm Beach frontman/Portland legend Chris Newman, is kind of a joke. Newman, of course, is in on said joke: Snow Bud began as a gag—a stoner-rock project that could goof on trippy Doors and Hendrix formulas while writing a seemingly endless string of songs about marijuana—and later grew into something of a bit more consequence. That initial joke spawned a 25-year career—one dogged by hiatuses during Newman’s occasional jail time and homelessness—and a few brushes with fame, from High Times to Sub Pop. The music, taken in as a lengthy blur of bluesy riffs, feedback and one-liners, reminds as much of the Butthole Surfers and the Melvins as it does of those hippie-rock influences. For an old joke, it shows that these guys take Snow Bud pretty seriously. CASEY JARMAN. Satyricon 9 pm. $7. 21+.