Samsara Blues Experiment - USA Tour 2009

A kind of music video for Samsara Blues Experiment's "For The Lost Souls" from the "Long Distance Trip"-album with clips from the 2009 USA Westcoast tour, which actually was the first real tour that we did and probably contributed its fair share to the "early mystique" of the band ;).

The story about this tour in short; we released a two track-demo (listen here:    • Samsara Blues Experiment - 2008 Demo (full)  ) in 2008 and via our myspace page two guys (Adam and Ian of Redwood Curtain Booking) in Northern California found out about us and obviously liked what we did enough to ask if we wanted to play a festival in Arcata, CA.

The four of us had played in this line up for only about half a year, and we were all basically just a bunch of big boys, who had to think for a few days and then out of curiosity (none of us had ever been in the US before that) and more of that pure naivety went on that trip, still with nothing else than that quickly produced two track- demo in our hands and with close to no touring experience.

All dates of the US Tour 2009 ("Krauts In The USA"):
27/03/2009 - Seattle - The Josephine (very spontaneously arranged)
26/03/2009 - Olympia - Le Voyeur w/Treetarantula jam feat. Richard
25/03/2009 - Seattle - Comet Tavern w/Nudity, Treetarantula & others
24/03/2009 - Bremerton - Winterland w/Nudity, 3D Witch Hunt
23/03/2009 - Salem - The Space w/Nudity
22/03/2009 - Eureka - Aunty Mo´s Lounge w/Nudity
20/03/2009 - San Francisco - Bottom Of The Hill w/Farflung, Numinous Eye
19/03/2009 - Los Angeles - The Echo w/Farflung, The Fancy Space People

Gigs we played before (in total eight -- LOL):
14/02/2009 - Berlin - Linse (at this point three labels offered record deals)
13/02/2009 - Würzburg - Immerhin (became sort of our second home)
18/01/2009 - Rome Italy - Traffic (this was already quite unusual)
04/12/2008 - Berlin - Wild At Heart ("no food for bands from Berlin")
29/11/2008 - Magdeburg - Heizhaus (fist fight with Nazis on the way back)
09/11/2008 - Kiel - Rathausbunker (nearly fatal collision with a huge deer on way back home)
08/11/2008 - Berlin - Red Rooster (kind of a friends and relatives show LOL)
07/11/2008 - Luckenwalde - Alhambra (first SBE-show ever)

I may write more detailed stories in my blog later: https://fuzzsagrado.blogspot.com

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All scenes filmed by either Richard, or Konrad & David (Santa Cruz Crew). Video edit by Richard. (as for the pixels - it's an old vid)