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Swami and the Bed of Nails featuring Swami John Reis (Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From The Crypt, PLOSIVS and more) is pleased to present the music video for its first single, “How Are You Peeling?” Recorded by Reis at City Of Refuge as well as Ben Moore at Singing Serpent, “How Are You Peeling?” is an immediate blast of joy that celebrates our time on Earth; it is nostalgia for a past that most likely never happened, and a hope that the future will bring us more noise and many more parties.

It is an idealized pursuit intended to elevate the status of the simplest pleasures and ridicule the unattractive lust of the unhindered ambitious. The music is a reenactment of the past lives of elderly teenagers returning once again to sustain their echo.

All Hail Swami John Reis. He of Hot Snakes, Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu and many, many others. His latest career decision is the formation of Swami and the Bed of Nails. YES! It is yet another band. Joining Reis is Tommy Kitsos (Night Marchers, CPC Gangbangs) on bass, Joe Guevara (Gary Wilson And The Blind Dates, Lady Dottie and the Diamonds) on piano and synthesizer, “session cat” Richard Larson on drums, and Mark Murino (Radio Wendy, Dirty Sweet) on second guitar. Their sound is ever-evolving but at the moment on “How Are You Peeling?”, it is firmly rooted in the early sounds of punk rock and rock n roll. Stay tuned for more music and information on the band’s forthcoming album to be announced in the coming weeks