The Bellrays
The Bellrays (also capitalized as The BellRays) are an American group that combines garage rock music with soul singing styles. The band consists of Lisa Kekaula (vocals), Bob Vennum (guitar), Justin Andres (bass) and Stefan Litrownik (drums). The group, founded in the early 1990s in Riverside, California, prides itself on its independence. They have been with several independent labels, including Upper Cut, Poptones, Alternative Tentacles, Bittersweet, Shock, Cheap Lullaby, Vicious Circle, Anodyne.
On the group's MySpace page, they describe themselves as follows:
"High Octane Rock and Roll! Biography schmiography! Who cares about where they came from or what they did before or how many records they put out. Stats are not what music or this band is about. If you have an open mind and want something challenging in your life then this is where you want to stop and listen. Just take it in and make up your own mind. You want somebody to tell you what it is go to Kelly Clarkson's website instead. You tell us what we're about and then tell your friends whether you like it or not."
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The BellRays
ALBUMS
- Black Lightning released: 2010
- Hard Sweet and Sticky released: 2008
- Have a Little Faith released: 2006
- Raw Collection released: 2003
- The Red, White & Black released: 2003
- Meet the BellRays released: 2002
- Grand Fury released: 2000
- Let It Blast released: 1998
- In the Light of the Sun released: 1992
The Red, White & Black
Released 2003- Remember
- Street Corner
- Fanfare
- Sister Disaster
- You're Sorry Now
- Revolution Get Down
- Mele Ipu Ekahi
- Used to Be
- Find Someone to Believe In
- You're Sorry Now (Slight Return)
- Some Confusion City
- Making Up for Lost Time
- Poison Arrow
- Black in the Color
- D-Am
- Stone Rain
- Noise Epic
- Rude Awakening
- Voodoo Train
- Startime
- Mele Ipu Elua
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The Blue Rose
by: Rocky Votolatofull of regrets grave diggers will find there's no map
to follow and the roads all changed there's smoke in your
brain and no one to show you the way surrender to the
weight of what you gambled and lost but at least you
don't have to lie to yourself anymore on the way back
from hell tonight, smoke's rising up through the lights
and there's a reason that you don't have to talk, I know
what you're thinking somewhere a blue rose is in a coke
bottle blooming on a kitchen window sill surrender to
the weight of what you gambled and lost but at least you
don't have to lie to yourself anymore ghost trains run
on the tracks down a gravel hill behind a trailer house /
you can hear 'em if you listen close enough it's the
sound of a world that forgot where it came from and every
lesson learned / I can feel the ending creeping up
surrender to the weight of what you gambled and lost /