Instrumentation
Rob Levy(Maleek Buddha Shabazz)/Vocal
Chad Parsons(Buddha Smooth)/Guitar
Tim Flanagan(Skippy Buddha Boom)/Bass
Mark Arnold(Buddha Nasty)/Drums
Cort Reimer(Buddha Magic)/Guitar
Nate Parsons(Buddha Invisible)/Percussion
Biography
"Those Who Know and Those Who Don't Know"
by Mark
1994 KRUI(local radio station) DJ on air as a song fades:
That
was "Sexual Buddha" a new local band. All my friends have have been
talking about this band that came to an open mike and blew everyone
away. My friends say they've never seen anything like it. They had this
singer blasting vocals by everyone faster than they could
comprehend...and the band had this slap and pop funk rhythm backed up
by two percussionists and mad guitar over the whole thing. They're
playing this Friday and I can't wait to see them!"
KRUI DJ #2:
Yeah,
I heard about that. I always hate it when bands barge in and take over
open mikes like that. I mean who do they think they are? They played
like 6 songs and nobody else got a chance to play. No those guys are
assholes and I'll never play them here, Never!
DJ 1:
Well I still can't wait to see them.
I don't even remember the DJs names. The truth is that we were invited
to play and close out the open mike by the people running it. DJ #2 was
the senior DJ at the radio station so we didn't see any air time. It
didn't hurt us though. We played bars and house parties 4 to 5 times a
week and created quite a following. It would seem that the fact that we
didn't get any airplay(or need any for that matter) had made us
infamous. This type of thing is a reoccurring situation with us. We
seem to make people happy. When we run across someone who "doesn't like
us", It makes someone somewhere else like us more.
Who is Sexual Buddha?
Sexual Buddha is a Rock/Funk/soul party band. We've been together on
and off for 13 years. Every time we get back together we seem to be
better than the last. This time we decided to make the CD "Dressed For
The Apocalypse". We realized we could reach more people with a CD (and
that we wanted something to show for the last 13 years).
"Dressed For The Apocalypse", That's a funny name?
The term "Dressed For The Apocalypse" was coined by Rob(our singer) in
a car on the way to record the album. It was Sunday and he passed 5
churches on his way to the studio. All had dozens of people dressed in
their Sunday best trying to make their best impression to God. Rob
thought it odd that in the ideology of the Sunday crew they believe
that the world will be ending soon and these people were making sure
their ties were on straight. These people were "Dressed for the
Apocalypse". The idea of the rapture aside, most people with the
knowledge of the end of the world would be making steps toward
preventing such an event or they would be building shelters to possibly
protect themselves when things go down. Not these folks, they were more
concerned with clean shoes and lint removal..
Where did Sexual Buddha come from?
The truth is that we all grew up in about the same area and most of us
went to the same High School before we moved to Iowa City. I won't bore
you with the details. The history of Sexual Buddha and its members is
always less interesting than its future.
Discography:
2007 CD: Dressed For The Apocalypse
Internet:
All tracks on this CD will be distributed digitally by CD Baby's digital distribution agreement.
We have a myspace page that we put various live recordings on. We also sell tracks through Snocap there.
Radio:
Currently we have all tracks of a self recorded(not released) live album playing on a couple local college radio stations.