The Bellrays

Punk is the teacher. Blues is the preacher. It’s all about emotion and energy, experience and raw talent, spirit and intellect. Exciting things happen when these things collide. Bob and Lisa made the BellRays happen in 1991 but they weren’t really thinking about any of this then. They wanted to play music and they wanted it to feel good. They wanted people to WANT to get up, to NEED to get up and check out what was going on. Form an opinion. React. So they took everything they knew about; the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, the Who, the Ramones, Billie Holiday, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, the DB’s, Jimmy Reed, Led Zeppelin, to name a very few and pressed it into service. It was never about coming up with a ‘sound’, or fitting in with a scene. It was about the energy that made all that music so irresistible. It was the history BEFORE Led Zeppelin that led them to that point. The Beatles thought they were playing R&B. It just came out like ‘Rubber Soul’. The Ramones were trying to be Del Shannon or Neil Sedaka and out came ‘Rocket to Russia’. With the Bellrays there was no conscious effort to ‘combine’ Rock and Soul because they didn’t see them as divided in the first place. Blues was teaching. Punk was preaching. The BellRays were always listening. The BellRays began in, and still hail from, Riverside, CA., just east of Los Angeles. 

In The Light Of The Sun (1993)

01 - Crazy Water

02 - Wandering Spirits

03 - Footprints On Water

04 - Same Ground

05 - Can I Make You Want Me

06 - Tell Me What The Sun Said

07 - He's Gone Wrong

08 - Blue, Blue, Blue

09 - You'd Better Find A Way

10 - In The Light Of The Sun

11 - The Ghost I'm After

12 - Tell Me What You've Been Working On

Let It Blast (1999)

01 - Future Now!

02 - Changing Colors

03 - Cold Man Night

04 - Today Was

05 - Kill The Messenger

06 - Blue Cirque

07 - Good Behaviour

08 - Testify

09 - Dark Horse Pigeon

10 - Hole In The World

11 - Dead

12 - Killer Man

13 - Fuzzhead

14 - King Of The World

15 - Black Honey

16 - Blues For Godzilla

17 - Get On Thru

Grand Fury (2000)

01 - Noise Fragment

02 - Too Many Houses In Here

03 - Fire On The Moon

04 - Snake City

05 - Ska Driver

06 - Screwdriver

07 - Heat Cage

08 - Evil Morning

09 - Zero P.M

10 - Do You Speak English

11 - Stupid Fuckin People

12 - Have A Little Faith In Me

13 - Monkey House

14 - Little Funny Jam

15 - Warhead

16 - Under The Montain

17 - They Glued Your Head On Upside Down

18 - Hello Hello

Meet The Bellrays (2002)

01 - Too Many Houses In Here

02 - Fire On The Moon

03 - Heat Cage

04 - Zero PM

05 - Under The Mountain

06 - They Glued Your Head On Upside Down

07 - Changing Colours

08 - Dark Horse Pigeon

09 - Hole In The World

10 - Dead

11 - Killer Man

12 - Blue Cirque

13 - Testify

14 - Blues For Godzilla

15 - Hidden Track

Raw Collection (2003)

CD 01:

01 - You're Sorry Now

02 - Nights In Venice

03 - Half A Mind

04 - Mind's Eye

05 - Swastika

06 - Gather Darkness

07 - Pinball City

08 - Mother Pinball

09 - Suicide Baby

10 - Chemical

11 - Tie Me Down

12 - Say What You Mean

13 - Rude Awakening

14 - I Lost The Feeling

15 - The Same Way

CD 02:

01 - Swinging The Blade

02 - Get It Right

03 - Chain On You

04 - I Got To Find My Baby

05 - I'm A Lover

06 - Destroy Al Everything

07 - Dream Police

08 - If I Wanted To

09 - Heat Cage

10 - I Don't Need No Doctor

11 - Dark Horse Pigeon

12 - High School

13 - Good Thing

14 - One For The Heart

15 - Train, Train, Train

The Red, White & Black (2005)

01 - Remember

02 - Street Corner

03 - Sister Disaster

04 - You're Sorry Now

05 - Revolution Get Down

06 - Used To Be

07 - Find Someone To Believe In

08 - Some Confusion City

09 - Poison Arrow

10 - Black Is The Color

11 - Stone Rain

12 - Rude Awakening

13 - Voodoo Train

14 - Startime

15 - Mele Ipu Elua

Have A Little Faith (2006)

01 - Tell The Lie

02 - Time Is Gone

03 - Chainsong (I've Been Searchin')

04 - Pay The Cobra

05 - Snotgun

06 - Have A Little Faith In Me

07 - Change The World

08 - Detroit Breakdown (Horn Interlude)

09 - Lost Disciples

10 - Everyday I Think Of You

11 - Maniac Blues

12 - Third Time's The Charm

13 - Beginning From The End

Hard Sweet And Sticky (2008)

01 - The Same Way

02 - One Big Party

03 - Infection

04 - Coming Down

05 - Footprints On Water

06 - Blue Against The Sky

07 - Psychotic Hate Man

08 - The Fire Next Time

09 - That's Not The Way It Should Be

10 - Wedding Bells

11 - Pinball City

Black Lightning (2010)

01 - Black Lightning

02 - Hell On Earth

03 - Sun Comes Down

04 - On Top

05 - Anymore

06 - Power To Burn

07 - Living A Lie

08 - Everybody Get Up

09 - Close Your Eyes

10 - The Way

Merry Xmas, Love The Bellrays (2008)

01 - Santa's Got A Big Old Bag

02 - Christmas Train

03 - Christmas Is Coming

04 - Rocketship Santa

05 - Gimme Some Funk For Xmass

06 - Mary Christmas

07 - Santa's Gonna Rock

08 - Reindeer Express

09 - All I Wanna Do Is Shag For Xmas

Covers EP (2016)

01 - Dream Police

02 - Highway To Hell

03 - Whole Lotta Love

04 - You Took Me By Surprise

05 - Never Say Die

06 - Living For The City

Punk Funk Rock Soul, Vol. 1 EP (2017)

01 - Mine All Mine

02 - Shake Your Snake

03 - Soul Girl

04 - I Don't Wanna Cry

Punk Funk Rock Soul, Vol. 2 (2018)

01 - Bad Reaction

02 - I Can't Hide

03 - Man Enough

04 - Perfect

05 - Brand New Day

06 - Junior High

07 - Never Let A Woman

08 - Every Chance I Get

09 - Now

10 - Love And Hard Times

It's Never Too Late To Fall In Love With... The Bellrays (2020)

01 - The Other Side

02 - So Hard

03 - Changing Colours

04 - Testify

05 - Snake City

06 - Sister Disaster

07 - You're Sorry Now

08 - One Big Party

09 - Coming Down

10 - Pinball City

11 - Black Lightning

12 - Sun Comes Down

13 - On Top

14 - Power To Burn

15 - Everybody Get Up

16 - Dream Police

17 - You Took Me By Surprise

18 - Mine All Mine

19 - I Don't Wanna Cry

20 - Bad Reaction

21 - Every Chance I Get

22 - Love And Hard Times

Heavy Steady Go! (2024)

01 - I Fall Down

02 - Hard Drive

03 - Snakes

04 - One More Night

05 - California

06 - C'mon

07 - Wolf's Sun

08 - Down On My Knees

09 - All The Rage

10 - Whatever Turns You On

11 - Ball Of Confusion

12 - True Love Travels On A Gravel Road

The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs & The Bellrays

Punk, Rock & Soul (2001)

The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs:

01 - Gettin Sick

02 - 1968 (Bobby Caught One In The Head)

03 - Job 43:1

04 - Mind Bomb

05 - Slow Death

The Bellrays:

06 - High School

07 - Tie Me Down

08 - Dark Horses Pigeon (Live)

09 - Say What You Mean

10 - I Don't Need No Doctor

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