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Sean Kelly: Lead Singer & Guitarist, fruit bat, bird afficianado, poet, all-around deep guy, defender of Nature, creator of love through music, prone to random acts ;
Bill Mutchler: Drums, Percussion, glassy-eyed look and Neon Hat, jokester of changing hair, tallest, builder of bird houses;
Jared Johnson: Bass Guitar, occasional keyboards, vocals, quiet enigma, great big fuckin' smile, also secretly plays drums;
Karl Dietel: Keyboards, vocals, team spirit, ladie's favorite, humor, gusto, and looking like the Six Flags guy
Mike Montrey on rhythm guitar and that fresh new band member smell
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Samples Song List Heard them all? Heard them all LIVE?
14th and Euclid
Across The Sea
African Ivory
After The Rain
Another Bargain
Another Disaster
Anymore
Anyone
Area Code
As Tears Fall
As The Moon Falls Over Ireland
Beautiful Girl
Big Bird
Birds of Paradise
Birth Of Words
Black and White
Blue
Brown Eyes In The Sun
Buffalo Herds and Windmills
Carry On
Castle Walls
Class of 1979
Close To The Fires
Could It Be Another Change
Dad
Darkside
Did You Ever Look So Nice
Dinosaur Bones
Empty Angels
Everytime
Falling In Love
Feel Us Shaking
Finest Role
Flying
For Everyone
Foreign Countries
Going Through Changes
Great Blue Ocean
Had I Known
Heaven
Here and Somewhere Else
Hypocrite
I Can Feel You
I Remember Dying
I Want To Get Drunk
Indiana
Information
Inside Out
Landing On The Sidewalk
Last Drag
Last Summer
Learjet
Light House Rocket
Little People
Little Silver Ring
Lollipop
Lonely Soul
Long Walk Home
Losing End Of Distance
Lost Children
Love and Roses
Lullaby
Madmen
Mary
Me Myself and I
Moves Me Like A River
My Guitar
My Town
Nature
Nature Of The Beast
Nevers
Nothing Lasts For Long
Ocean Of War
Old Man in The Moon
Overthrow
Pain
Prehistoric Bird
Purple Rose (Garden Ghost)
Radio Song
Sacred Stones
Sad World
Save it For a Rainy Day
Sea of Broken Hearts
Seany Boy
Seasons in The City
Seventeen
Shes An Exception
Shine On
Smile For The Camera
Streets In The Rain
Still Water
Suburbia
Summertime
Superstar
Take My Heart
Taking Us Home
Taxi
Too Young To Die
Tree Of Our Shade
Waited Up
Walking Home
Walking Through the Snow
Warm and Sunny
Water Under The Bridge
Water Rush
We All Move On
Weight of The World
When Its Raining
When the Day is Done
Who Am I
Wild River (Colorado)
Wont Be Back Again
World Of Machines
Young And Free
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Music, images, lyrics, etc. are owned by The Samples.
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Influences
Neil Young, Beatles, Jackson Brown, Bruce Hornsby, Marilyn Monroe, a touch of tequila, nature, and LIFE
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
~ John Muir
Sounds Like
petals and rain landing on the sidewalk, tears falling off our faces, little silver rings turning to gold, another starry night above us, lighthouse rockets
Thanks for all the support of Samples fans worldwide over the past several years. The Samples have seen and absorbed every word of encouragement and joy you've sent through this page, and as things change and grow, so has the commitment to acknowledge and return all your good thoughts for The Samples music. This page will exist to keep you updated on any news in the future and for your comments and messages to The Samples.
This page has been maintained with love and care for the past three years by Peace in Colorado. To contact Sean or any other Samples member directly, please. click on their myspace icons in the friends section, or at thesamplesusa@aol.com.
Personal message from Sean:
Dear Folks,
I want start by saying that I may be able to write songs and play a guitar but my spelling and grammar has never been my best asset. I am usually pretty good however in getting my point across none the less. So if you notice some words out of place go easy on me. I am writing this email on a beautiful spring Vermont night way up on the 45th parallel. Lake Champlain is outside sleeping and I have a few updates regarding The Samples.
The long and winding road for The Samples has ended. Outside of possibly playing a few rumored dates with the original line up next fall, The Samples will be no longer. I have also canceled any and all upcoming samples dates. I sincerely apologize for the recent cancellations, I have only canceled two shows in 22 years and I always do my best to prevent this anyway possible.
From all the beautiful landscapes across America, to the bus engine roaring under my bed. It’s been a long and beautiful ride with endless and difficult ups and downs that I would not trade for anything. I put my heart and soul into every show, and on every record. I hope that it translated. I feel a bit like Forest Gump when he stopped running, turned around and said “I think I am going to go home now”. I have been such a driving force in The Samples that I never stopped to notice how I have neglected many aspects of myself and many of the other things that used to really make me happy.
Such a beautiful thing so unprotected, endangered, rare and one of a kind!
I welcome change, perseverance and any ideas to incorporate into my solo career. I am very much exited to pursue many different and new challenges.
I have appreciated all of the mail over the years, and I thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart. Thanks so much to the field staff for all of your wonderful help along the way. Thank you Shee Shee Kramer for your entire fan related support and your third eye.
I would love to get playing as soon as possible with a host of great musician friends of mine. Having said this, I am currently filling in my summer and fall dates right now. I can even play living rooms! If you are interested in booking me, please contact me at thesamplesusa@aol.com
If you live in the Vermont area, I am also cleaning out my samples storage space. Everything must go. Lots of samples memorabilia and a bit of music gear for those who may be just starting a band or you are already in one. For more info on this write me as well at- thesamplesusa@aol.com
I am also selling my electric guitar that I have solely used for the last year and a half. It’s a real beauty and I hate to see it go. It still has the strings on it from the last Samples show.
I can sign it or not, and it goes to the highest bid starting at $500
If you are interested please write me at thesamplesusa@aol.com
I have also recently purchased a web cam in hopes that I could offer guitar and vocal lessons online to those of you who have always wanted to play or sing but did not know where to begin. It’s economical, it does not waste fuel, and I am one hell of a teacher. All you will need on your end is a guitar, web cam and a computer.
I will be immediately working on my solo CD and communicating via the Internet and keeping everyone up to date on its progress.
I have put up 421 Samples related videos on you tube, documenting the last 22 years of touring and recording. Feel free to go back in time and see all the crazy places I have been.
http://www. youtube. com/thesamples
I am also looking for some really great attorneys and accountants who would be willing to work pro bono until I get back on my feet.
Please contact me at thesamplesusa@aol.com
Sincerely,
Sean Kelly
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
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Hunter S.
Thompson
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Ad astra per aspera:
To the stars through trials.
-Latin epithet
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Dear The Samples: Thank you for YourFriendship. My eight-year-old-peace-activist son Axil's quest for World Peace Before 2021 is gaining momentum! I'm so proud of him. Please embrace him AND his song "World Peace Before 2021" which he sings beautifully. His performance can be seen on MySpace, his webpage www. worldpeacebefore2021. com and/or YouTube (by searching his name Axil Kollist.) It is my intention to post a new video of him singing his song every few months so people can watch his talent grow as impressively as the momentum for his quest! I'm sharing two photos with you. The first is of my son distributing his free world peace bumperstickers and the second photo is of him singing his song “World Peace Before 2021” at Maui's Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Day Festivities in January 08. Best regards, Axil Kollist’s mom
Guys! I have been listening to your music since the early 90's. I've seen you live and on road trips, you are in the cue. your music is a must have. Period. Jonathan
I have never appreciated music, but you changed all of that a long time ago. I am very grateful and to this day I speak of you to anyone with an open ear and let your music speak for itself. I miss you already but wish you all the best life has to offer! Muchas Gracias, Ash
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