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Around about 1973 or 4, a group of about 30 young hippies (you know who you are) lived communally at 122 N. Duke St. in York,PA. Four of us had our names on the lease, & everyone else came & went for about 4 or 5 years. Our Land-lady, Mrs. Gilbert was a Saint. A number of us were musicians & several were songwriters. We gathered around candle-lit tables & pot-luck meals, singing into the night, rehearsing for Be-In's & other public events, went skinny-dipping in natural bodies of York County water, read aloud from Kazantzakis, Hesse, The Upanishads, and forged, deeply, what have continued to be some of the finest relationships of our lives. Seyler (I think) once said, "These friendships were both College & Cathedral to me" (a sentiment I share). Somehow, we all became known as The Duke Street Liberation Army, though I don't remember how that originated.
Now, almost 40 years later, we've recorded a communal album of new songs together. Arsenal of Love, by the Duke Street Liberation Army Band. Songwriters Greg Engle, John Terlazzo & Steve Seyler, and musicians / singers Beth Landis Lawrence, Michael Statler, Bob Hoke, Ryck Kaiser, Rick Terlazzo, Roy Frush, Roy Smith and (Engineer & Techno-Fakir) Doug Smith all gathered at Doug's Shab Row Studio in Frederick, MD. last May to begin recording after working out our parts & harmonies long-distance via email from our homes in Austin, Texas, Muncie, Indiana, Philly, Virginia Beach, etc. A dozen or more old friends writing songs together, singing harmonies & backing one another on everything from guitars (both electric & acoustic, violin, lap-steel, Indian harmonium, dobro, ukulele, & Irish Bouzouki to piano, organ, bass both fretless & fretful, drums & percussion and more...
The songs are more than varied - everything from R&R, R&B, folky love songs, & social justice finger-pointers, to wild old - style European Rants, to Country & Eastern music, to Pirate Sea Shanties, Mythical Blues, Tin Pan Alley, to mysterious hymns and I-won't-lay-down-and-die anthems - all original songs & all gathered here.
Includes unlimited streaming of ARSENAL OF LOVE (Songs by Terlazzo, Engle & Seyler)
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Around about 1973 or 4, a group of about 30 young hippies (you know who you are) lived communally at 122 N. Duke St. in York,PA. Four of us had our names on the lease, & everyone else came & went for about 4 or 5 years. Our Land-lady, Mrs. Gilbert was a Saint. A number of us were musicians & several were songwriters. We gathered around candle-lit tables & pot-luck meals, singing into the night, rehearsing for Be-In's & other public events, went skinny-dipping in natural bodies of York County water, read aloud from Kazantzakis, Hesse, The Upanishads, and forged, deeply, what have continued to be some of the finest relationships of our lives. Seyler (I think) once said, "These friendships were both College & Cathedral to me" (a sentiment I share). Somehow, we all became known as The Duke Street Liberation Army, though I don't remember how that originated.
Now, 40 years later, we've recorded a communal album of new songs together. Arsenal of Love, by the Duke Street Liberation Army Band. Songwriters Greg Engle, John Terlazzo & Steve Seyler, and musicians / singers Beth Landis Lawrence, Michael Statler, Bob Hoke, Ryck Kaiser, Rick Terlazzo, Roy Frush, Roy Smith and (Engineer & Techno-Fakir) Doug Smith all gathered at Doug's Shab Row Studio in Frederick, MD. last May to begin recording after working out our parts & harmonies long-distance via email from our homes in Austin, Texas, Muncie, Indiana, Philly, Virginia Beach, etc. A dozen or more old friends writing songs together, singing harmonies & backing one another on everything from guitars (both electric & acoustic, violin, lap-steel, Indian harmonium, dobro, ukulele, & Irish Bouzouki to piano, organ, bass both fretless & fretful, drums & percussion and more...
The songs are more than varied - everything from R&R, R&B, folky love songs, & social justice finger-pointers, to wild old - style European Rants, to Country & Eastern music, to Pirate Sea Shanties, Mythical Blues, Tin Pan Alley, to mysterious hymns and I-won't-lay-down-and-die anthems - all original songs & all gathered here.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE NEW DSLA CD,
Arsenal of Love...
Talk about head lopping iconoclasm, it is alarmingly disembodied!!!
- Harold Rosicrucian, The People's Quack
Some of the best Razmatazz since the Ancients played Cornwall!
- Tony Benet, Crooner
The DSLA offers an aesthetic alternative to the friezelike space that has dominated Tibetan Be-Bop since the late eleventh century - Mindboogering lyrics and hyper-dirgelike R&B Ragtime phenomena! Has to be smelled to be believed!
-Thubten Drugpa Ling, First People's Jazz Lama
Nobody - I repeat NOBODY plays the Cosmic Gregorian Boogaloo like our boys (& girls) at the Frump! The Duke Street Liberation Army Band will make your hose water & your Nun duck!!! No kidding! These Talented Young People are tantamount to drizzle and corpulent to BOO! The Cat's Bananas! AND, that Techno-Fakir is one hell of a snake-charmer, sings better than Tommy Dorsett herself!
- Corporal Shirley Marvelous, Men's ROTC Supreme Commander, Hoboken University
MORE ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE DSLA'S NEW CD from some of the world's most prestigious news sources & arts critics...
Be the first one on your dock! - Otis Reading
Hallelujah! I've been following this group since they fought in the old revolution on the side of the ghost and the king. -L. Cone
Lowly, longly, a wail went forth. Pure Yawn lay low.
On the mead of the hillock lay DSLA!!!
- James Joice
We hat these gize! Don choo? Soshalitz!!
- Bud Duper, The Tea Party Jernel
We hat these gize to! Makes tears come to my eyz!! Patriotism, Jingoism, etc.
- Glenn Bick
How has it come to be that Ancient Mystics & Rodeo Clowns of this caliber could so easily redeem their soulful coupons in any major department store & make music of this hyperbolic, hypercolic nature while still keeping their big shoes shined! Beyond Comprehension!
- The People's Daily Mess
STILL YET EVEN MORE ADVANCED PRAISE FOR THE DSLA'S NEW MUSIC FROM DIGNIFIED ARTS CRITICS!
Such a Fulfilled Wish! The DSLA Band, an exotic nude! Flowing flaxen wild hair, pursed lips, parted limbs, Sensual, perpetually available Chamber Music for the Masses!
- Sister Windy, VaticanFloozie"Art"Times
One of them frequently breaks nails & wears a garter belt. The music is pretty good too.
- Women's Ware Daily
YAP! YAP! YAP! YAP!.................YAP!YAP!YAP!YAP! DSLA!!!!!
YAP!YAP!DSLA!!!!...YAPYAPYAPYAPYAPYAPYAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Arnold Dachshund, Lil Yapper Dog Monthly
Loose lips slink sips!
- Quasimodo
"The DSLA, secretive? No, really more -- How do you say? -- a misery wrapped in an enema."
- Ditty Devine of the famous Ditty Devine Eunuch Choir
credits
released December 18, 2014
Greg Engle - songwriter, vocals, acoustic guitars, mandolin, dobro, ukulele & Irish bouzouki
John Terlazzo - songwriter, vocals, nylon-string guitar, Indian harmonium & Egyptian tar
Steve Seyler - songwriter, vocals & piano
Beth Landis - vocals
Michael Statler - harmonicas & vocals
Ryck Kaiser - violin
Bob Hoke - electric lead guitar, lap steel guitar
Rick Terlazzo - organ
Roy Frush - drums & percussion
Roy Smith - bass, fretless bass
Doug Smith - recording engineer, Techno-Fakir
Featuring
Harmonies by the Ditty Devine Eunuch Choir
and the Ever-popular Android Sisters
AND
the Rhythmic Renderings of The Roys
With
Extra-Celestial (above & beyond the Call of Duty) contributions from the DSLA Overseas Reserves:
Donna Lipman - additional harmonies on "How Much is Enough?" and
Karen Johnson - cellos on "What Your Beauty Does"
John Terlazzo & Voices in the HallYork, Pennsylvania
Voices In The Hall: Songwriter / Poet John Terlazzo on vocals, guitar, Indian harmonium, Kristina Machusick on vocals,
flute, recorders & Paul Wegmann on vocals, lead guitars. Together
they have become one moving, breathing creature, offering up a rich array of "Modern Surrealist Gypsy Folk", & described as "Marc Chagall gone aural" and "Leonard Cohen meets Rumi"....more
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