| NEWS & UPCOMING GIGS: Classic Rock Magazine: Southern Rock Issue
Santeria is featured in the August-"Southern Rock" issue Trailerville Used as Score for L.A. Play of Same Name from The Dege Blog: In the jumble of things going on,
I forgot to mention that about a month ago
I was contacted by playwright Hannah Logan and director Eileen Galindo from the Ground Up Theater Company in Los Angeles.
They're putting on a play called Trailerville. Same name as an instrumental CD of guitar-scapes
I released in 2004. Slipping Through the Cracks Wins LA Press Award The June '07 article Dege wrote for The Independent won Best Individual Feature at this year's Louisiana Press Awards.
04.24.08
| The Botanist (8 pm), SANTERIA (10 pm), & Screams
of Triumph (midnight) @ Renaissance.
Synclive at the Blue Moon Watch this show and more at SyncLive.com Done
Mixing the BBC Record. GIG
ALERT: Black Bayou Construkt will be playing the New
Orleans Cutting Edge Music Festival at Big Tops 3 Ring
Circus Club in New Orleans on FRI. AUG. 24. Slot
is at 1am at night. Late, late. Come. Our only NOLA show in a while.
Article:
"Slipping Through the Cracks: A Week on the Streets." Slide
Show-Interview Links:
![]() Jason | photo by Terri Fensel ![]() Keith | photo by Terri Fensel *Thanks again to Reese for making these. And Scott for editing the piece. Details FRI.MAY.18
- GRANT ST. DANCEHALL
- LAFAYETTE, LA
- w/Amazing Nuns, & We're Only In It For the Honey BBC
& SANTERIA RECORDS STATUS REPORT: Start bugging those bastards at the record labels, and any bastards for that matter to carry the record in local shops...and even corporate souless record barns. Fuck it, we'll just take the shit over...as is my wont...if none of these wankers wanna put it out. You know in a 500-square-mile area, with New Orleans as the epicenter and fanning outward in an arch, you've got the birth of Delta Blues, Ragtime, Jazz, Cajun, Zydeco, much rock & roll, etc...in the last 50-100 years...and yet Where Are All the Record Labels? Not here. They're in bigger cities, looking up the ass of a bunch of cranks with $50 haircuts. Maybe we can't afford haircuts like that, but hey, the water table is not that much older than it was when Blind Willie Johnson walked the planet, down here, so be warned, much great music is still being made down here...although you wouldn't necessarily know it with the crap some of these labels put out..by jokers down here. But hey, there's always hope...if not...there's semi-automatic weapons & cheap beer. Keep fighting the Good Fight, people. I ain't dead yet. Look
out, LA-LA-Land... SANTERIA
REUNION DECEMBER GIGS: SANTERIA,
BLACK BAYOU, & DEGE LEGG MERCH Here's a link to the store: http://www.lulu.com/degelegg
http://www.theind.com/cover2.asp?CID=-1060938998
"House
of the Dying Sun"
ANATOMY OF A SCREAM VIII: Video Edition Here ya go...
(Webmaster note: The stuff from here down has been edited to trim this file some, but I kept stuff with links) MORE
NEWS 02.01.06 | Mardi Gras, Santeria video, etc. For yr viewing pleasure, here's the Santeria promo video for "High & Rising," directed & edited by Dug "Out" Domingue. Yeh, I know it's arriving about 2 too late, but better late than never. It's for "Bigfoot" movie, Prey, coming out with some Santeria music in it. The video was put together for promo use & the DVD. So there you have it. And for those that didn't know, Santeria was my old band ('94-04).Also, Santeria's
House of the Dying Sun CD is finally, once again, available
for online purchase here My new band is Black Bayou Construkt. and we've been in the studio recording an album for the past 3weeks, with Tony Daigle producing. He did House of the Dying Sun, Santeria's last record. Shit's sounding pretty good. Hopefully, it stays that way. I think we've got enough songs to do TWO new records. Count'em and stay tuned. We're shooting for Spring release. May the Good Recording Gods of Timeliness grant us good grace. Upcoming shows: Hope everyone had a killer '05
and all that shit. '06 is gonna be a mofo, so let's make it count
for something.
-Dege
12.12.05 | X-Mas Specials XMAS SPECIAL
$10--ONLINE STORE--NOW!!!
For the first time, my book, The
Battle Hymn of the Good'Ole Hillbilly Zatan Boys,
is now finally available on the Internet...for the
LOW PRICE OF $10 fucking bucks. Woohoo! Got it formatted
over the weekend after much "tweakering" with the specs. And
now, it's ready to go. 182pages of Full-On Redneck, Backwoods Madness.
Remember the movie Deliverance? Yeh, well, imagine if the
whole movie was just about those crazy, hillbilly dudes...and
you get a whiff of the picture.
Here's the link where you buy it,
if so please:
http://www.lulu.com/content Got a new cover for this edition as well. This version, which
I'm gonna call the "Biker Edition," has got a "Perfect
Binding" (the shit you get on most paperbacks), a color front&back
cover, and is sized 6"x9." Forgot the kind of paper it's
printed on, but paper's paper, man. Buy it and see.
I hate pushing this book, but I'm excited, cuz after 5years of searching for an affordable means of getting it printed up nicely, I've finally found it. Time catches up, eventually. So here it is. If yr looking to buy yr loved one a freaky-cool kind of xmas gift this year, uh, this would be it. For the XMAS SEASON, I putting it up for $10/copy, so I don't make shit off it...and you get it cheap. In the past, I had to sell them for $25 thru Kinkos' printing and I Lost money. So this IS it. It's not gonna get any better than this. Who knows, this place, like a lot of Dot.coms, might be GONE in a few months, so get'em while you can. Here's the blurbs,
from actually reviews of the book, if yr interested:
"Burning with originality
and white-hot creativity, Dege Legg paints an unforgettable portrait
of a unique southern family that is both demented and hilarious. Not
for the faint at heart." -Kevin McHugh, Doom-Metal.com
"A whirlwind tour through
social depravity, cultural isolation and many things submarginal,
The Battle Hymn of the Good'Ole Hillbilly Zatan Boys is one of those
curious literary concoctions that casts itself in opposition to fiction's
dominant mode: a fragmented iscourse of living, loving, and languishing
in post-modern America. Written by enigmatic, Dege Legg, Battle Hymn
holds its enigmas pretty close and centers around the cranky, wise
Elron Zatan, patriarch of the Sluzkill Mountain (Arkansas) Zatan Clan,
a wild bunch of rabble-rousers who, because of their distinct antithesis
in relation to mainstream culture, become a lens for viewing the American
wasteland.”-Walter Pierce, 24/7 Mag
11.01.05 |
RIP: PAPA GENE DUPUIS (1950-2005)
For those that were an extended part of the Santeria Family, this past weekend was a bit of a bummer. Jay (bass, Santeria) Guin's dad passed away last last week from complications of congestive heart failure. He was good dude. A True Lifer. And a R&R warrior in the realest sense of the word. He'll be truly missed. A tough old guy, he always took his licks on the chin and never hesitated or backed down from the bum trips that life threw at him. He had many ups as well and he rode them to the tune of the Unwritten Code of Chaos. Everyone in the Santos band owes him a great debt-o-gratitude, as he was a car salesman, and hooked us up with working van&trailer for the last Santeria tour in 2003. Having a decent van for the first time in our history, and not having to worry about breaking down in the middle of nowhere (as so often happened), we really enjoyed that last tour to the fullest. It wasn't a luxury tour by any stretch, but to us, it felt like we'd been blessed by the Karma Gods, rather than the Demons of Voodoo curses that had dogged us for the previous 3yrs. (I know, I know...all bands experience runs of bad luck. To that I say; Yes, But You Have No Idea). Regards. And regardless, here's to Papa Gene...who had his run, made the most of it, and left with his dignity intact. He was one of the Good Guys and as you know, Good Guys are hard to find....and they're even harder break when you do find them. So...this one's for Papa Gene. May he rest in peace, and enjoy a new life in the Great Unknown. Over,
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