Wino Wednesday: Blood of the Sun, “Good & Evil” from Burning on the Wings of Desire
The connection between Scott “Wino” Weinrich and Texan classic heavy rockers Blood of the Sun is simple: Henry Vasquez. The frontdrummer of Blood of the Sun also serves in Saint Vitus as the replacement for Armando Acosta, who left the band in 2009 owing to health issues and passed away last Thanksgiving, almost exactly one year ago. Blood of the Sun haven’t had a record out since 2008’s Death Ride on Brainticket, and though Vasquez‘s obviously been busy since then, they’re due.
Vasquez toured on drums with Dave Chandler‘s Debris Inc. project with Trouble‘s Ron Holzner (as did Eyehategod‘s Jimmy Bower), which is how he came to the Vitus gig, but Blood of the Sun have been kicking up riff rock dust since the release of their self-titled record in 2004. Their live show is incendiary, and though Death Ride got a modicum of positive reception among the right people, no doubt the new album, Burning on the Wings of Desire, will see even higher profile thanks to Vasquez‘s ongoing tenure in Saint Vitus.
And rightly so, because they’re a good band. Bringing Wino in on guest vocals always helps as well, and as it happens, Tony Reed (of Stone Axe, Mos Generator and HeavyPink fame) is playing guitar for Blood of the Sun these days too, in addition to having recorded Burning on the Wings of Desire, which is due out sometime next year. Since it was Reed who put up a clip of “Good & Evil” on the TuberYous earlier this week, I figured all the better to make it this week’s Wino Wednesday cut and celebrate another killer cameo from the man himself.
Hope you enjoy:
If you dig that Blood of the Sun song (and I can’t see any reason why you wouldn’t), they’ve also put another one up here that you can check out, featuring the same Alabama Thunderpussy, Staring at the Divine-esque booby-lady art. Sorry to anyone for whom “SFW” is a concern, but rock is rock, and sometimes there’s nipples in rock. Hazards of the trade.
Tags: Blood of the Sun, Texas
Henry Pardike? Inside joke I’m not aware of maybe. Henry Vasquez it should be…
Henry Vasquez it is. I just mixed up the name. Pre-holiday brainfart. Appreciate the correct.
No problem bro! Love the song – I’m a huge BOS fan, I’ll be getting this as soon as its released. Hopefully they’ll do some local shows and I can catch them.
Blood of the Sun have an album partially finished. Tony Reed recorded it and in a recent interview (i forgot with who), he mentioned he’s in the band. I don’t know if it’s permanent or he’s filling in but in the same interview he mentioned he will resume recording in the spring.
nevermind. it helps to finish reading the whole artilce before making a comment. Stupid head cold. :0