Introducing The Sonics

High Times

WAVE OF LOVE
https://dragonfly4.bandcamp.com/album/wave-of-love
MOOD FOR LOVE
https://dragonfly4.bandcamp.com/album/mood-for-love
VAGAMUNDO
https://dragonfly4.bandcamp.com/album/vagamundo
COSMIC GROOVE (333 Tracks Album)
https://dragonfly4.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-groove
HOLLY SOUNDZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdDl96L2e38
RUNNING LOVE 
https://dragonfly4.bandcamp.com/album/running-love


21/10/2018: LE CLAPIER(St Etienne) avec Harrison Stafford(Groundation)& Brain Damage
21/06/2016: LES SONS DE LA MINE (St Etienne)+ Brain Damage

 PERCH'n'ROLL PARTY TOUR 2014:
08/29/14:The Magic Garden-London UK
08/30/14:Fox & Firkin-London UK
09/01/14:The Magic Garden-London UK
09/03/14:Toshi's Living Room & Penthouse-NYC
09/04/14:Silvana-NYC
09/05/14:Piano-NYC
09/06/14:Gussy's bar-NYC
09/09/14:Otto's Shrunken Heads-NYC
09/11/14:3rd & Girard-Philly
09/12/14:Triumph Bewery Company-Philly
09/13/14:Tea Lounge-NYC-Brooklyn
09/13/14:The Way Station-NYC-Brooklyn
09/15/14:Lic Bar-NYC
09/18/14:Joe's Record Paradise-Washington DC
09/19/14:Heaven Club-Washington DC
09/20/14:Electric Maid-Washington DC
09/26/14:Kulchure Collaborative-Cleveland
09/27/14:21 Lounge-Cleveland
09/28/14:Impala Cocktail Lounge-Milwaukie
10/01/14:Emporium-Chicago
10/03/14:Black Hawk-Moline
10/04/14:Transistor-Chicago
10/04/14:Storefm-Chicago
10/05/14:Disaster House-Rockford
10/08/14:Book's Cooperative-Milwaukie
10/09/14:The Washington-Burlington
10/10/14:Vaudeville Mews-Des Moines
10/11/14:The Ritual Cafe-Des Moines
10/17/14:Hard Hat Lounge-Las Vegas
10/22/14:Ham&Eggs-Los Angeles
10/23/14:The Crest Bar-Los Angeles
10/25/14:Max Bloom Cafe-Los Angeles
10/25/14:Bill'O's Ventura-Los Angeles
10/29/14:The WitZend-Los Angeles
10/30/14:The Cooper Door-Los Angeles
11/01/14:Honey Hive Gallery-San Francisco
11/02/14:Stork Club-Oakland
11/03/14:Grand Studio-Oakland
11/04/14:Vic Bistro-San Francisco
11/05/14:Blue Lagoon-Santa Cruz
11/06/14:Mason Social Club-San Francisco
11/07/14:Audio Dru Moyco-San Jose
11/08/14:Winter's Tavern-San Francisco
11/09/14:Bocci's Cellar-Santa Cruz
11/10/14:The Place 2 Be-Canby
11/11/14:El Corazon-Seattle
11/12/14:Cafe Istanbul-New Orleans
11/14/14:Beatnik-New Orleans

WINDYWOODYDUB'N'MORE!!!!!!!

DRAGON FLY IS A COMPOSER,PRODUCER,SAXOPHONIST & CLARINETIST WHO PLAYS IN MANY BANDS (GAGADILO...)
HIS NEW PROJECT (SUMMER 2013) PRESENT A LIVE ELECTRO-DUB-HIP HOP WITH A LOT OF  INFLUENCES (WORLD,REGGAE,JAZZ,FUNK...) COMPOSITIONS,REMIXES & BOOTLEGS ARE MIXED TO PROPOSE YOU AN ECCLECTIC MUSICAL TRAVEL FROM ROOTS TO URBAN SOUNDS...KEEP THE PERCH & HAVE A NICE LISTENNING!!!

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05/07/14 au 31/07/13:FESTIVAL D' AVIGNON résident à LA FABRIK THÉATRE
19/12/13:SOIRÉE ÉTUDIANTE @ La K-FET de L'INSA (LYON)
14/12/13:LOCAL DES GREEN (ST ETIENNE)
07/12/13:L'ASSOMMOIR (ST ÉTIENNE)
22/11/13:AU BAR ET VOUS? (ST ÉTIENNE)
16/11/13:10 ans d UPTOWN @ LITTLE SOBA (ST ETIENNE)
01/11/13:FESTIVAL 1001 BASS @ LITTLE SOBA (ST ETIENNE)
13/09/13:1 ST GIG :Soirée ANARYTHMIK @ LA GUEULE NOIRE (ST ETIENNE)

JULY 2013:Dragon FLY bought a computer & started to produce some tunes!!

25/05/78:"A STAR IS BORN"!!!....dixit the Dragon FLY'S MOTHER!!!

Beginning in 1963, The Sonics created an uncompromising, overdriven brand of rock 'n' roll whose musical and emotional intensity had no precedent at the time, and has yet to be bested in the years since.  Driven by Gerry Roslie's fearsome, bloodcurdling howl, Larry Parypa's pummeling, distortion-heavy guitar work and Rob Lind's greasy, squalling sax, the Tacoma, Washington-bred combo delivered a brutal, propulsive sound and a swaggering, primal attitude to match.  By taking rock 'n' roll to the edge, the Sonics helped to lay the groundwork for punk, garage and heavy metal, decades before those genres existed.  

The Sonics became regional stars throughout the Pacific Northwest, where their over-the-top performances made them a consistently in-demand live act.  But their assaultive approach proved a bit too extreme for national mainstream exposure at the time.  The original Sonics splintered in 1967, but the band's influence and mystique continued to grow steadily in the ensuing decades, as their vintage work was rediscovered by succeeding generations of fans and musicians.  Meanwhile, such Sonics standards as "Psycho," "The Witch," "Strychnine" and "Have Love, Will Travel" continued to turn up in film soundtracks, TV commercials and the set lists of the countless Sonics-loving bands who emulated—but never duplicated—the band's sound.

As The Sonics' posthumous profile grew, the band members stubbornly resisted a steady stream of lucrative offers to perform reunion shows.  Instead, they maintained that the Sonics would only reform when they felt that they could equal their original onstage energy level, and when they could record new material that would equal the intensity of the old stuff.  

The Sonics finally ended their four-decade hiatus in November 2007, with a pair of rapturously received shows in New York.  Although the band had intended those shows to be a one-time-only event, word of the performances quickly circulated amongst Sonics fans, resulting in performance offers from around the world, and turning the temporary reunion into a permanent one.  Since then, The Sonics have performed for rabid crowds across the United States as well as England, Spain, Belgium, Sweden and Norway.  They headlined a sold-out concert at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, where they had performed their last show back in the day, and at the SXSW music-industry conference in Austin, Texas, and the NXNE festival in Toronto.  

Having reconquered the live stage and built a new, multi-generational fan base, the reactivated Sonics have set their sights back on the recording medium, enlisting noted producer Jim Diamond (White Stripes, Dirtbombs) to record THIS IS THE SONICS —the Sonics' first album of new material in nearly half a century—at Diamond's Detroit studio Ghetto Recorders.  

The 12-song set finds The Sonics channeling their original savage, primal essence on such new originals as "Chaos," "Sugaree," "Bad Betty" and "I Got Your Number," while continuing their tradition of audacious cover material with raucous reworkings of Ray Charles' "I Don't Need No Doctor," Bo Diddley's "You Can't Judge A Book by the Cover," the Kinks' "The Hard Way," Hank Ballard's "Look At Little Sister" and the rousing Motown nugget "Leaving Here."

THIS IS THE SONICS shows the Sonics' original sound and swagger to be fully intact, and ready for 2015.