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📸: David Hovland

📸: David Hovland

OG Rhythm section Wednesday. Ron Botelho and Herma

OG Rhythm section Wednesday. Ron Botelho and Hermann Senac @hermannmrexcitement - Silverlake, CA - 1983
📸: Terry Dorn (Terence Dorn)

#OnThisDay July 20, 1985 - Blood on the Saddle wit

#OnThisDay July 20, 1985 - Blood on the Saddle with the Innerstates at Safari Sam’s - Huntington Beach, California

Throwback to the New Blood era.🎸🥁 Greg Davis, Dave

Throwback to the New Blood era.🎸🥁
Greg Davis, Dave Frappier, and John Stephenson

1983 📸: Terry Dorn (Terence Dorn)

1983
📸: Terry Dorn (Terence Dorn)

July 5, 1984 - @azcentral (Excerpt) ‘Hellbent hill

July 5, 1984 - @azcentral (Excerpt)
‘Hellbent hillbilly’ music leaves listeners thrashing to beat of country, punk fusion
Blood on the Saddle revs up traditional bluegrass
By Mark de la Vina
The drummer is into hard-core punk, the lead guitarist plays bluegrass and the rhythm guitarist used to be in a neopsychedelic girl group. Would you believe these guys play country?
The quartet out of Los Angeles that calls itself #BloodontheSaddle is an odd lot of individuals, indeed. But as a unit, they shell out a bluegrass that would leave a Kenny Rogers fan gasping for air.
Blood on the Saddle is one of the latest additions to the Los Angeles rock scene that has spawned the countrified likes of the Gun Club, Rank and File and Lone Justice. Unlike any of them, Blood on the Saddle sticks to the bluegrass side of things and revs up the music to a pace that often prompts many a club patron to thrash.
Because these artists fuse elements of punk and country, they have been labeled everything from country punk to cow punk. The group’s vocalist and rhythm guitarist, #AnnetteZilinskas, said Monday of the categorizations, “We think they’re stupid. It sounds insulting, like cow punk — (it sounds) like cows with mohawks.”
But Blood on the Saddle isn’t just a country band.
“We’ve got a lot influences,” Zilinskas said “Appalachian, bluegrass, folk, thrash (and) blues.”
“Yeah, we play hellbent hillbilly music,” drummer-vocalist #HermannSenac said.
Blood on the Saddle was formed in spring 1983 by Senac, lead guitarist #GregDavis and bassist #RonBotelho. Senac’s previous experience included stints in various hard-core combos. Davis had played in the punk band Dead Hippie. Davis had also played bluegrass in New Orleans and Memphis before Blood on the Saddle was formed. Zilinskas, who played bass with the moderately successful all-female psych-pop Bangles, joined the three last July 4.

Have a happy 4th of July!🧨🎸

Have a happy 4th of July!🧨🎸

Blood on the Saddle playing live in Europe (Probab

Blood on the Saddle playing live in Europe (Probably Germany) with Kevin Keller on bass in 2001 or 2002.

“The guitar gods who taught me how to play via vin

Just before getting on the plane for Europe. - 200

Just before getting on the plane for Europe. - 2001

Happy Solstice 2026.☀️😎 It’s getting hot out there

Somewhere in Holland - 1994

Somewhere in Holland - 1994

Greg Davis with Blood on the Saddle’s illustrious

Greg Davis with Blood on the Saddle’s illustrious roadie Jamie Cassius in a biker bar in the Swiss Alps, Switzerland in 1994.

Blood on the Saddle in Pula, Croatia -1995 📸: Cour

Blood on the Saddle in Pula, Croatia -1995
📸: Courtesy of the Dave Frappier Archive

“First Blood” was released on this day in 2024. Th

Annette Zilinskas and Greg Davis performing Johnny

“This version, different from the one featured on

Blood on the Saddle - 2001 - Taken in Hollywood, C

“I was trying to emulate the old blues song techni

“I was trying to emulate the old blues song technique of playing the melody on the guitar simultaneous with singing it then answering it with some slide guitar or in this case bluesy bends.” - Greg Davis

“Freight Train is from ‘82. Written in my apartmen

“Freight Train is from ‘82. Written in my apartment at Sunset and Vine. I wanted to write a traditional sounding train song like I heard on the old folk blues records.” - Greg Davis
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