Long Beach Dub Allstars

Schedule

Wed Nov 20 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Almost Famous Wine Lounge | Livermore, CA

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Pioneers of the West Coast Cali Reggae scene, with ties to Sublime and a wild psychedelic new album. Back after a 15-year hiatus!
About this Event

21+ Bar opens one hour before showtime. Show starts at 7 pm. 

Long Beach Dub Allstars is one of the pioneers of the West Coast Cali Reggae scene, with many of its original members having collaborated with Sublime and Brad Nowell. They have stayed true and honest to the art and paved the way for many. After making their triumphant return in 2020, Long Beach Dub Allstars’ new album "Echo Mountain High" takes listeners on a wild, psychedelic trip filled with reggae, rock, ska, hip hop, hard dub, and soul. "Echo Mountain High" rolls through the mountainside with some wild contact highs along the way with songs about youth, ghosts, police brutality, love, hate, life, death and mushrooms. 

See them live at Almost Famous Wine Lounge, an award-winning, new tasting room and venue located on Vasco Road in the heart of Livermore's wine, spirits and brewery district. Almost Famous Wine makes fifteen wines in diverse styles, and earned over 50 top industry awards since our debut in 2021. 



ABOUT LONG BEACH DUB ALLSTARS

After making their triumphant return in 2020 with their self-titled album, Long Beach Dub Allstars are taking it all the way back-to-basics on their new album "Echo Mountain High". The album will take listeners on a trip through a psychedelic mountain range of musical madness filled with reggae, rock, ska, hip hop, hard dub, and soul.  

When the pandemic hit, tour was cancelled and the band was put down for a bit.  After about a year, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Opie Ortiz and Edwin Kampwirth got busy and started to write some songs. Setting up their own personal musical "resort" in Opie's yard, the duo began to demo new tracks. This "resort sesh" led to the creation of 18 demos that would become the seeds of "Echo Mountain High".  

The band began working with Long Beach Dub Allstars guitarist Michael “Miguel” Happoldt to help figure out which of the songs to focus on.  13 songs were chosen and sent to the band.  With the full band tracking straight to tape at Tracking at 64 Sound, the canvas and frame were built and it was now time to paint.  So then off to record overdubs with the great Lewis "Lew" Richards at 17th Street Recording studios, as well as at Mike and Tim's home studios.  Within a year, the album was completed.   

"This release is extra special because after the pandemic, I honestly didn't know if we had another album in us," commented Long Beach Dub Allstars bassist Edwin Kampwirth.  "The way Opie, myself and the crew came together to work on this album was really amazing to me.  Everyone got busy, did their parts and treated these songs with respect and love. The last album was really beautiful, but it was very mellow.  To me, 'Echo Mountain High' is the wild album that needed to happen. We took some chances, broke down some barriers and now the floodgates are open."  

Long Beach Dub Allstars have always taken chances and have never been afraid to chart into unknown musical territory.  "Echo Mountain High" sees them experimenting with some heavy psychedelics and finds the band playing some hard classic dub anthems along with some wild experiments, showcasing the band's free spirit and fearlessness to venture into the unknown.  

Opie Ortiz describes the sound "I feel with the self-titled album, it was an old-time vibe we were going for, and Cameron Webb has more of a punk-rock approach. This new album has more of a soul feel to it, and we experimented with a bunch of sounds like Roger playing a mellotron on 'Fly So High', which gave it a sort of Beatles 'Strawberry Fields' vibe."  

Joining the Dub Allstars on this mind-altering musical journey are Chris Dowd (Fishbone), who adds his trombone flavor to one track, some sweet vocals on another and some of his iconic keys on two others. Devin Morrison (Expanders/Man Like Devin) and Jesse Wagner (Aggrolites) lend some singing on a few tracks. Philieano (Doobie Raider) jumps on two tracks to rap and sing some harmonies, and local Long Beach ripper, Travis Goertz, plays a little slide guitar on one track.  

The album's first single "Precious Time" was inspired by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that took the lives of nearly 16,000 people and injured thousands of others. Frontman Opie Ortiz was visiting when the earthquake happened and the harrowing experience stuck with him.  

"I was there when it happened visiting my brother Philieano, but luckily we were on the west side in Nagasaki," he remembers. "It was a real eye opener being in a different country in a state of emergency. I was speaking with a person in our crew who played guitar with the One Big Family Band, his name is Yuichiro Oku, and he said I should write a song and call it 'Precious Time' because time is precious."  

Today’s generation of reggae-rock fans may not fully understand how critical this group was to the reggae-rock genre, following Sublime’s conclusion in 1996. They played at a time when social media was non-existent. Live-videos of their early performances are mostly of grainy VHS quality, while most live-photos shot by fans were with throw-away cameras. There was no Youtube, Facebook, and this was before Myspace or even iTunes. They were the torch bearers of a genre that Sublime introduced and the original Dub Allstars lineup included most of the players who were involved in cultivating that Reggae-Rock sound with Brad Nowell. Seeing them reunite and perform new music after a 15-year absence is exciting. Together these musical professors and legends from Long Beach have engineered a new studio album that adds to the legacy of Long Beach Dub Allstars. 25 years later the band has found its resurgence with Opie Ortiz (vocals), Miguel Happoldt (guitar), Tim Wu (horns), joined by Roger Rivas (keys), Ed Kampwirth (bass) and Gil Sharone (drums).  

"Echo Mountain High" rolls through the mountainside with some wild contact highs along the way with songs about youth, ghosts, police brutality, love, hate, life, death and mushrooms. 


VENUE INFORMATION

There is a two drink minimum for each guest. With a menu of 15 wines in diverse styles and sophisticated non-alcoholic options, there's something for everyone.

Set times and ticket prices are subject to change, and sales are final.

Dancing is encouraged at Almost Famous, and usually takes place in front of and to the side of the stage. If a dance party breaks out, we cannot guarantee a completely unobstructed view to those sitting in the bistro table seats.

Please visit www.almostfamous.wine for our other venue policies.

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Almost Famous Wine Lounge, 2271 S. Vasco, Livermore, United States

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