The Self Portrait Gospel presents:
“When I Didn’t Have A Home” - An Amps For Christ Podcast
Season 1 Ep. 01 (Season Premier) :: "The End Is The Beginning and The Beginning Is The End"
Hailing from Claremont, California, a suburban city in eastern Los Angeles County, Henry Barnes (Ranger Barnes, Enid Snarb) first began connecting with the meditative melodies of music through his incredibly talented parents. With a mother who played guitar and a father who was a member of the local collective The Real Jazz Band, Barnes’ exciting environment eventually led him down the endless path of folklore, melodic mythology, and traditional tunes.
Having participated in several groups in grade school and high school, the young industrious musician began to hone his craft during the cultural crossover from rock and roll to punk in the late 1970s, and decided to combine the two in one liberating location, and hasn’t looked back since.
In this first episode of “When I Didn’t Have A Home,” An Amps For Christ Podcast, Barnes takes us all the way back to the biblical beginning when he was born in La Verne before relocating to Mexico with his family and siblings, for a few years before returning to California, where he would eventually begin to connect with the spiritual sounds, and tonal textures that would later go on to define the visceral vibrations, and environmentally epic messages of LA-based “power violence” trailblazers Man Is The Bastard, and later Amps For Christ.
Join us as we unpack the unique universe of all things AFC on this season’s first episode, "The End Is The Beginning and The Beginning Is The End", where we initiate the first peel of the Glass Onion before discovering what lurks within in its cosmic center.
Available wherever you get your podcasts.
June 19th - Jana Horn is coming to Los Angeles 🤩 her songs are perfect, they are like bells ringing on the inside of your body , you’ll have to see for yourself
Support from amazing Corey Madden and a special Amps for Christ/Syko Friend set. Henry and I will be playing/singing one of each of our songs together, a special, possibly, one time happening, we play first 🎶💕🤍
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Gun Outfit :: Process and Reality
Since forming in Olympia, Washington, two decades ago, LA-based revolutionary rockers and supergroup gangsters Gun Outfit have become a spiritual staple among their prolific peers and creative contemporaries. Carefully combining the electrifying elements of pristine psychedelia with the ever-expanding tones of otherworldly whispers, the band has become a cult favorite in the hazardous hills and vibrant valleys of Los Angeles and beyond.
With the release of their debut on the Carrboro, North Carolina-based label Paradise of Bachelors, “Dream All Over”, which also marks the epic entry of captain of the cosmos, Henry Barnes, the genius behind all things Amps For Christ, and the serene sounds of 2017’s “Out Of Range”, the band returns to the atmospheric airwaves after a well deserved break from the polarizing production culture of America with their long-awaited double LP “Process and Reality”.
The album was captured and self-recorded by the band over the course of a month on a radical ranch in Pine Flat in the Sierra Nevada foothills of eastern Fresno County back in 2020, if you recall those tumultuous times, simultaneously, while over 4 million acres, more than four percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land, burned over the course of a year.
Featuring nineteen tracks, Gun Outfit and its members, Dylan Sharp, Carrie Keith, Henry Barnes, Daniel Swire, and Kayla Cohen, who joined the group just before the album’s conception, are joined by an all-star cast of players, such as the great Chris Cohen, Warren Lee, Danny Sasaki, and several others to help bring the metaphysical messages to the surface for all to hear, and feel its radiating rapture on the senses. Set for release May 8th on the London-based label, and live music promotion company Upset! The Rhythm, the band embraces perhaps their greatest effort yet, but who's to say when an oscillating organism such as Gun Outfit comes to town? They keep getting better, and better over the years, like a weird whiskey.
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