Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Artsniff and the Amazing Llamas


This past Believe tour, we had the privilege of having Evan the Keytar Player play in the band and raise awareness for the "Save The Keytar" Movement. What most people don't know is that Evan is a real live junior high kid from Webb City, Missouri and that he has his own band (if you want to call it that - it is more 3 friends that do crazy stuff) called Artsniff and the Amazing Llamas. The members of the group are Preston (goes by Artsniff), Alex (goes by A-Buck), and Evan (also known as Monkey Luke). Alex and Evan are the llama tamers. Don't ask - I don't know.

Artsniff and the Amazing Llamas are the best thing that ever happened to You Tube. I actually think You Tube was created for them. You can click here and it will take you to their You Tube Page. Below you will find a couple of my personal favorites of their videos. I will give you a little background on a few videos, because I stayed up with Evan in Michigan at a hotel and watched pretty much all the videos. It was like having the director/producer/creator/actor sitting beside you watching a movie.

"Be a Friend" - The boys shot this at church and it was played during one of the Sunday youth services. This is about the only serious video on the page.

"Moving Forward in a Backward World", "A Day at the Park", and "Reversafiction"- These videos are reverse engineered. If you want something to mess with your head a little - watch these. Evan (or Monkey Luke) did everything backwards and then they played it forward. Seriously, watch it - then you will understand.

"Time Line" (featured above) and "Trevor Birthday Remix" - Classic Artsniff. The three boys sitting on the couch making up raps.

We have been recording videos with Evan over the last couple of weeks for our promotional DVD, and one of the videos is Artsniff and the Amazing Llamas on the couch with a rap they made up specifically for Believe. I can't wait till the video is done.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey this is evan. and i think that is fit up to my standerds. you pretty much covered everying except,that one of our beatboxing videos called constapassion, is pretty serious. its talking about a man being in pain because he was constapated.
owell. you will get better. i will teach you my ways.
seeya.

Anonymous said...

hey my name is abby and i'm friends with the guys in artsniff! you should hear them at school they are beatboxing all the time and some times it's flippin hilarious! i love those guys!

Anonymous said...

haha omigosh i love those dudes!! they are amazing. i also happen to be good amigos with them ;) abby btw is one of my best friends so we both are kinda in the circle of friendship with them ^_^