tag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:/blogs/latest-news?p=2Latest News2019-02-13T14:38:35+01:00Mark Enbatta's Tribefalsetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/59153412019-10-04T15:41:05+02:002019-10-04T15:41:05+02:00ALBUM RELEASE!<p>Mark Enbatta"s TRIBE album will be available on the 25th of October on vinyl and CD.</p>
<p>It's a worldwide release so you are not supposed to order from here! We will add it to our listing though... Postage became very expensive lately and I hope it will be available from your local dealers!</p>
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<p> </p>Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/56410772019-02-13T14:38:35+01:002019-02-13T14:38:35+01:00Production...<p>We wanted our first album as the TRIBE to sound in a way that would have impressed Lucas... Most of the songs have been written when we were still expecting him to record and play them. <br>He told me the kind of tapes he wanted for the session. I ordered them and they were waiting for us at the Kaiser Studio when we finally dared to work without HIM... <br>Now, our part of the job is done. Peter McConnel and I have achieved a fantastic production work. It took a lot of time but I'm sure Lucas would love it! He wouldn't admit it, of course! <br>By the way, I've always been at the desk for all our recordings! Since 1982... <br>Now, let's see who will release the album!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/748b29dd5e4162a161dc81ef96e916bf722ed16d/original/46980534-2432707953622738-1493442136924749824-n.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/54268732018-11-09T13:37:36+01:002018-11-09T13:37:36+01:00TRIBE at work<p>We're currently mixing 14 songs for the Mark Enbatta's TRIBE album. Quite a long work because new production ideas never stop coming in...</p>
<p>Eight of the new songs are already played on stage and perfectly fit with the older ones. Some of them already get more than just success when played live!</p>Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/53717982018-08-02T12:13:33+02:002018-08-02T12:19:24+02:00Review of the gig in Chalon.<p>Click the picture for an excerpt from the gig. Not great quality but we hope to have a better film shortly.</p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/mfpernin/videos/10156047845243171/UzpfSTEwMDAwNjUwNjcxNTk2NDozMDYwNjExMjk0OTk0MTQ6MTA6MDoxNTM1Nzg1MTk5Oi03Mjk5MDUwMTY0MzgxNDUwMjUy/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/744791dd37c193a5da5d7fbac4b6fb2656fcac53/original/37907467-2136984753293292-4071783615430656-o.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>Click picture for link to excerpt from the gig.</p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/mfpernin/videos/10156047827263171/UzpfSTEwMDAwNjUwNjcxNTk2NDoyMzM3NDEwODIzMTUyNDUy/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/bcca45da3213aea9a83056dcea951ee5807940c9/original/38001506-2136987469959687-57562848213073920-o.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
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<p><a contents="Catch a review of the gig by clicking on this text." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/chalontv/dimanche-soir-rock-dans-la-cour-de-l%C3%A9v%C3%AAch%C3%A9/2136982726626828/" target="_blank">Catch a review of the gig by clicking on this text.</a> Unfortunately it's only in French. Sorry guys!</p>Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/53478552018-07-16T12:48:00+02:002018-07-16T12:48:00+02:00New Album Art ready! Soon ready to buy! Click to view.<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/cd7983cae4a0c2c05388bbaba8b2856537c6cd3b/original/tribeabb.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/52886532018-06-11T15:55:36+02:002018-06-11T15:56:55+02:00New Gig for theTribe! Click link for details.<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/0c0b4e1f657a4e274040696128385141c2c9d35f/original/gig22718.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/50889132018-02-20T15:18:34+01:002018-02-20T15:18:35+01:00TRIBE at work!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/51b47c0afe53fa4f3c45dc9daf092bf31486ada3/original/tribeheader-versionredfinal.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />After only two rehearsals, the tribe is ready to enter the recording studio... It won't happen before April but it's amazing how each guy understands the moods of all the songs! There will be more rehearsals in the Kaiser studio and I'm sure that everyone of us will bring new ideas for the final tapes...</p>
<p>13 original songs should be on the album. Maybe a cover too... </p>Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/49368102017-11-17T17:10:21+01:002022-03-03T15:03:55+01:00"ME": Mark Enbatta's complete acoustic sessions (1990-1999)!<p>All of the Vietnam Veterans' songs have been written and brought to life with an acoustic guitar... Even Mark's guitar style is heavily influenced by the way an acoustic guitar is usually played. All along those recordings, you will hear much more than a guy singing and strumming his instrument. You will hear vocal harmonies, several instruments and a real production work. Even solo efforts like these ones are aimed to become band recordings. Just like the late PF Sloan's pre Grassroots or Barry McGuire's work...</p>
<p>"ME" is the compilation of three recording sessions...</p>
<p>The first one was produced by Lucas Trouble at the first location of the Kaiser Studio. The project was to gather very sad songs on a record. The band's name was the SMILING DROOPIES and the album's name, JELLY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SLICE. Music Maniac wasn't ready for it and just wanted to release Mark's songs as a 4 song EP. After Mark's refusal, the tapes remained unreleased until today. Other people play and sing on this session: Jacques Dauphin (the Strawberry Minds), Laurent Toquet, Lucas Trouble, Ric Albin and Dave Provost (the Droogs).</p>
<p>The second one was called the DDDinining Room Tapes because Mark's big dining room was turned into a professional digital studio, with the latest ADAT recorder and 60's tape echo machines! Mark couldn't sleep because of pills he had to take. Thanks Doc for your heavy prescription! All instruments and vocals by Mark... the THYRD TWIN eventually borrowed some songs for the Churls CD.</p>
<p>The third session saw Martin Joyce join in for slide guitar additions. The recording studio was now in the penthouse and the album should have been called Welcome to Oblivion. Nothing happened because Lucas called Mark to start the GITANES project. Some of the songs appear in an electric rendition on Cloudy Draw...</p>
<p>Many fans have heard about those recordings and asked for them. Here they are! Enjoy!</p>
<p>They are available as downloads only, from all the usual outlets; a link to them on iTunes is on this sites Store page, along with many other goodies. Note you can't buy them from the store even though there is a button....it was just the only way we could list them here.</p>
<p> </p>Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/43521762016-09-01T12:05:15+02:002017-01-16T17:33:05+01:00CLARISSE<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/ac8a14d6f4ea38303e0fcd6e65f618d362621e90/original/14172067-1935335646693307-1976978690-n.jpg?1472723901" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p>Since June 2015, I knew that Lucas would leave the Vietnam Veterans to join the Eternal Lost Stars Band. We couldn't blame him for it. Who would refuse to play with Jerry Garcia, Sky Saxon, John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix? <br> <br>Many months before leaving us, he told me to ask his younger brother to take his place in the band. Emotionally it’s too heavy for Laurent... so we've decided that nobody would replace the one and only Kaiser. <br> <br>Now the band is back to its original 1982-1983 form: bass, drums and two guitars. Peter Mc Connel is an ace axeman, so we just had to find a bassist. Only one thing is required for joining the VV's: you must be a wonderful human being... luckily I knew two such people who happen to play great bass. <br>It was a difficult choice between these two delightful individuals: one will be the father of my first grandson in November, Erik, the other is a long-standing friend and musical collaborator, Clarisse. <br> <br>Too bad for Erik but there are things I don't want him to see his father in law do during tours! Might give him some naughty ideas! So, my choice was Clarisse who has been like family to Lucas and me for very many years ….. more than either of us wish to recall! She used to play drums with Little Green Fairy and switched to bass three years ago. We have had ten days together working on the Veterans songs and after only a few weeks, she knew all our stage songs! We love her and now I’m sure you will love her too!<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/49001c512aa39c5b072d94be76c3b9f334e7af5d/original/14101713-1933297803563758-1298952367-n.jpg?1472724103" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/41996342016-05-27T18:09:26+02:002022-02-28T12:32:53+01:00Kaiser StudioThe last two weeks have seen Mark and Peter working out how the logic - or lack of it - comes together in the Kaiser Studio - based in Chagny, Bourgogne, France. This superb analogue studio, one of the best in the world, was put together in '85 by Lucas Trouble and where the band has recorded ever since. They've spent long hours taming the spaghetti! It will soon be open for business again! Although there is a 24 track desk the guys will start with the 16 track one......enough for Rock n Roll! Soon they will be putting the finishing touches the Mark's solo double album and recording a new Vietnam Veterans one in the Kaiser Studio. Watch this space for news......<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/4993a7506adf9aee7fbac042e68d9b4a30449638/original/13240051-1885690008324538-8253610053924820612-n.jpg?1464365223" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/91993e15116802a069bc8c307e5dee32f625f61c/original/13239209-1885689711657901-8039778054540394211-n.jpg?1464365212" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/5eb6a7fe163e71a33cd105501d8dc393ea42d3dd/original/13239071-1885690108324528-5204656645648490136-n.jpg?1464365201" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/fb9eab45b6b1d0380e7df23418a796e9c5b23888/original/13237588-1885689911657881-1661527086013944867-n.jpg?1464365187" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/40377712016-02-12T08:29:47+01:002016-02-12T09:28:01+01:00Recording sessions!2016 will be a very busy year in the studio... A new Vietnam Veterans album should be recorded, although it will probably be released in 2017. Most of the songs are now written but we want to work in the way that made us happy with FISTFUL OF LOVE. I mean, we will rehearse a lot before starting the recording sessions. That's the best way to add important details to the bass/drums rendition. It's the best way to be ready for playing live too!<br>Before recording this new record, we will have to complete Mark Enbatta's second solo album. This one is a compilation which was recorded from the late 80's up to nowadays and includes a lot of the original versions of songs the Vietnam Veterans and the Thyrd Twin have later published...<br>This sounds like a busy year, mates!Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/37189112015-05-28T13:23:50+02:002017-01-16T17:33:05+01:00A FISTFUL OF LOVE tour (Part One)<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/166571/c3c52b8a651b154a7a97e3e20f95de1bd77adb03/original/10371330-10205224422868498-2085927373866060669-o.jpg?1432807242" class="size_l justify_center border_" />We've had a great time playing Germany again after 25 years. We've met many friends and we gave great performances. I'm very happy with this line-up! Martin is back and Peter brings things we never had in the band before.<br>All the audiences were very familiar to our music but I missed the newcomers, the youngsters we want to convince. Unlike the Greek audiences, the German ones were lacking the presence of innocent and curious young guys and girls. I guess we will have to play in festivals to reach this kind of people. No problem! We'll do it.<br>A lot of our fans didn't even know we were visiting their country. Today's promotion tool seems to be the web and the web only! No more posters on the walls, no more paper magazines. It looks like being a big problem for all the bands I have the pleasure to see and hear. We were less than twenty to see great artists like Chris Bailey, Rob Younger or Terry Lee Hale! Now it's a big problem, because people usually get to know about a gig one or two weeks AFTER the concert! Let's think about it...<br> Mark Enbatta's Tribetag:thevietnamveterans.com,2005:Post/36691302015-04-21T15:35:42+02:002022-04-14T08:10:20+02:00PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC...2015... it's been a long time since we've heard the first psychedelic sounds! nowadays, many people connect this word to a style of music and to the use of typical instruments or effects. This is very far from any reality! many psychedelic bands from the 60's never used any of them. A lot of them were playing on traditional acoustic instruments or on your average Rock n' Roll gear but they were obviously psychedelic groups. Did the Grateful Dead or Kaleidoscope ever use any weird sound processor? Nope!<br>What we should call Psychedelic Music or Art must directly come from the unknown depths of our minds. This was quite easy with the 60's use of lysergic drugs... it doesn't mean that artists must pass the acid test to deserve being called psychedelic ones! there are other ways to explore our own minds... and alcoholics and junkies couldn't get the right effects of LSD!<br>It's not that easy to recognise real Psychedelic Music... Innocence, freedom, sincerity, memory, childhood are a few keywords. Think about it!<br> Mark Enbatta's Tribe