Sam Henry's Current Projects

Napalm Beach

Originally called The Untouchables, Napalm Beach was formed by Chris Newman in 1980. After opening successfully at the Long Good-bye for Fred and Toody Cole's pre-Dead Moon band called The Rats and Tom Pig's first band, The Imperialist Pigs, Napalm gigged constantly in Portland and Seattle. Greg Sage of the Wipers saw great potential in Newman and company and took them under his leathery wing (or was it silver metalic?) He recorded them on the Trap Sampler giving them 3 tunes and producing their first vinyl. After leaving The Wipers in 1980 and recording "Intermittent Signals" with The Rats, I joined forces with Chris Newman and Napalm Beach in 1981. We toured all over Europe and recorded too many records to count on my fingers over 20+ years. After a four year hiatus, we reunited in January, 2008.


Drunken Prayer

Drunken Prayer features the songwriting of singer/songwriter/guitarist Morgan Geer. This is unapologetic American music--straight, no irony chaser. These sorrowful, brutish, hell-bent songs pick up a narrative thread that's too long been left in the dirt.


Pete Krebs Trio

I've been playing jazz shows with Pete for years. We recently started playing out as a trio.


Michael Dean Damron and Thee Loyal Bastards

After the breakup of longtime Portland favorites I Can Lick Any SOB In the House Mike D has put together a new group to feature his great songwriting. The band is Mike D on guitar and vox, Morgan Geer of Drunken Prayer on lead, Alan Hunter of the Eels on bass, and me on drums.


Gothic Outhouse

I've been playing with this group for a number of years now. It's the great Heidi Hellbender and Regina LaRocca from M-99 on vocals and guitar respectively, and Kevin Balis on clarinet. Though we play mostly covers this group has a very original approach to the material we play. You'll hear Greg Sage, Nick Cave, Billie Holliday, and many others played a whole new way.


Karaoke from Hell

Karoake From Hell - It's always a fun time to sit in with the Karoake band now in it's seventh year in residency as the Monday Night house band at Dante's. We love Dante's!


Morgan Grace

I first heard Morgan opening for Gothic Outhouse and her music knocked me right off my chair. I started working with her on a recording project she was doing with Sean Flora at Rocket Science and that pretty much turned into playing together all the time. Morgan is an incredible songwriter, she just won $10,000 in a songwriting contest. Her songs have a great mix of rock sensibility with an upbeat jazz feel. In June of 2006 we were joined by Dave Koupal on bass for a bit of a Wipers reunion. Our new line up features bass player Laura Phillips.


Gimme an X: A Tribute to X

This is just as much fun as it sounds and features Morgan Grace as Exene Cervenka, Sean Flora as John Doe, Geoff Clarkson as Billy Zoom, and me as DJ Bonebrake. It's great to play the music of X, they wrote terrific songs and so far this band has gotten a great response.