The Veldt - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

KEXP.ORG presents The Veldt performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded December 14, 2023
Songs:
The Everlasting Gobstopper
Aurora Borealis
In A Quiet Room
Forever Green
Joi
Daniel Chavis - Vocals, Guitar
Danny Chavis - Lead Guitar
Hayato Nakao - Guitar
LG Galleon - Guitar
Martin Neuman - Guitar
Alex Cox - Bass
Dale Miller - Drums
Host: Larry Mizell, Jr.
Audio Engineers: Kevin Suggs, Julian Martlew
Audio Mixer: Kevin Suggs
Mastering: Matt Ogaz
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Carlos Cruz, Alaia D’Alessandro, Scott Holpainen, Luke Knecht
Editor: Jim Beckmann
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[@Heel86]

Those of us in NC have admired the Veldt since the mid-80s and are so proud that they've stayed true to themselves and their music for going on 40 years. We love and respect Danny and Daniel so much and we're so happy that they are experiencing a "rebirth" these days. Thank you, guys!

[@panheadvaporill]

Freaking perfection. Solid set. I love that this band is getting well deserved attention this way. And repping NC, much respect. Love them 🙌

[@michaelpacinelli4476]

Wow, this band is really from the 80's...mind blown twice.

[@shoegazer93]

Amazing looking guitars! 12 strings and all! So happy for this band! It's taken them decades to get here! Well, well, well, deserved! WELL DONE, THE VELDT

[@DanielChavis]

Thank you very much!

[@patriciademarch]

My favorite band! Love this music

[@kelseywarren7020]

Crushed it! You have no idea how happy I am for you guys! Respect!!

[@derekslg777]

I’ve been checking KEXP everyday waiting for this to be uploaded !

[@mterpstra]

Just got my first turntable at age 52! Pre-ordered the record a little ways back. Wow, it painted some new neural pathways through my shoegaze-flavoured mind. Thank you guys, for persisting and for putting this out into the universe. It came to *me* right when I needed it. Hope to see you back in the PNW soon!

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Veldt - Full Performance (Live on KEXP). 27.2.24. Shahab..i wouldn't imagine life without one. Yer not that guy who walks into other folks homes and claims their record players, are you? I'm hungry, man....

[@alana6502]

What a beautiful future this band has, keep bringing dreams to us...

[@Maiden_Warrior_Crone]

Absolutely gorgeous wall of sound. Where I move back to the US I hope to see them live!

[@canarykasey]

The Veldt 🖤 absolutely kings in my eyes. I'm so happy to be blessed with this performance on KEXP

[@calebfreidenfelt1671]

😢 stunning and profoundly lovely

[@mymgftube]

This band sits at the top of my "bands you need to know" list. The Veldt are one of the few bands that I have followed since the late 80s and still enjoy the evolution of their sound.

[@johndonaldson3890]

So glad to see this, and I still love your music. I hope to listen to many more records.

[@ceevishus4130]

Every Lasting Gobstopper got me through a bad break up. love this band

[@dannychavis2413]

🙏🏾❤️✊🏾

[@renula]

LEGENDS

[@jerrymoss7604]

Vastly underrated, these guys just rule.

[@perryroobay]

Respect to the Veldt for mentioning Reed Mullin of Corrosion of Conformity - he introduced me to yall and the local scene. ❤ HOMETOWN HEROES ❤

[@DanielChavis]

WORD

[@pamela8329]

Love this! Happy they have continued their trippy sound over the years. Legends! 🎶

[@newwavetransmission]

love THE VELDT

[@dianwilson4840]

Breathtaking. Thank you for enduring and continuing to love the world enough to get the music back to us.

[@softlightsymphonyband]

Legends

[@pamela8329]

Just love the way they make their guitars sound. Not a synth or keyboard in sight! ❤️🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@earconscious]

The Chavis Bros & Hyatto do use pre-programmed synth lines and drum guide tracks in every performance because they can’t always afford a drummer & 3 extra guitarists!

[@ralexh011]

@@earconscious Just saw them live and there were 4 guitarists with bass and drum backtracking. Still awesome!

[@earconscious]

@@ralexh011 as Long as you get Danny, Daniel and Hayato that’s the Veldt but the West Coast tour as a 7 piece was freaking epic!

[@felicerosser5400]

Congratulations Danny and Daniel!!

[@boywonders]

So good! Happy to call the Brothers Chavis friends of mine. Rock on lads 🤘

[@stevemarschman3202]

Love from Idaho Falls!

[@d2mondo]

Class act - total class.

[@taronb1992]

Just like you said "Their visibility is important to us in the black community" to see that black men have been doing what they do since 1989 is incredible and they should be cherished. Their music and influence is timeless and I look forward to seeing what other young black people bring to the table in the future. We can and do make more than rap and R&B, we created rock music and our influence on culture all over the world is astounding. Happy Black History Month with The Veldt the true kings of soulgaze!

[@jeffsthill8208]

Ever heard of the Bad Brains?

[@morenomauri295]

Uhu you landed recently then okay...

[@wisenheimer9997]

You should have introduced them... that was the sparsest intro I've seen for such a unique and mysterious band...

[@gleepglop839]

Since 1989? Wtf

[@Tusitala1967]

@@gleepglop839 Really. Probably '86 or '87. I met the Chavis brothers at a party in North Raleigh and the next day they showed up at my door bright and early. They blew into the room like a whirlwind of color and paisley. Daniel: You wanna play bass in our band? Me: I don't play bass. I don't even own a bass. Daniel: We'll get you a bass. Me: Um... ok. *wiping the sleep out of my eyes* What's the band called? Danny, who has been silent until now, picks up a copy of the Illustrated Man I was reading from my bedside table, turns to the table of contents and says.... Danny: We're the Veldt. And that's how that happened. I only played one show with them at a party, and recorded two songs with them at Jag Studios. Aurora Borealis was one of those songs. The other was called Marshmellow Skies, and had much more of a Prince feel. I quit to go play guitar with a different band, but I cherish my time with the Chavises. They are truly two unique and caring individuals who know how to dream. I am very gratified to see that those dreams are still coming true.

[@johnarthurcarr]

My guys. So good 💯

[@HenryBoyer313]

Glad the Veldt can continue to write their story, as well as A.R. Kane in the shadows, wish majesty crush had the opportunity to continue. RIP David Stroughter

[@dannychavis2413]

God bless his heart🙏🏾❤️

[@user-zo3uv7rc7r]

Freeking Excellent!!!

[@Femocimusic]

Real Trip!! Woow 🌬️🌌🌌🌠

[@joecormier4242]

I saw these guy play at Soda Bar in San Diego because Cold Gawd was part of the line-up. I was blown away and I even got to chat with them at the merch table afterwards. Super nice guys!

[@geeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzz]

Getting replays here 👍Love it all. Great emotion put in from the singer.

[@jamesvoneschen6603]

Hell yeah

[@icysurfer1]

Excellent to hear interesting music that's not yet old.

[@ThommyUnderhill]

Love these fellas!

[@jfefan97]

Strange to be able to say I go back with a band for a long time...but I actually do in this case...and still have several CD's of theirs. I was at Tower Records (as a customer - not a worker as in the Green Day - Collin Barden youtube vid on my channel) back when "Afrodisiac" was released and they did an in-store acoustic performance. When I saw them setting up, I started singing "WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?" from their song "Tinsel Town". They looked at me and asked "where do you know that from?" I answered Black Rock Coalition radio (WBAI - NYC). They were like "oh, yeah...them"

[@agma6904]

Host Larry Mizell, Jr. Audio Engineers: Kevin Suggs, Julian Martlew Audio Mixer: Kevin Suggs Mastering: Matt Ogaz Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Carlos Cruz, Alaia D’Alessandro, Scott Holpainen, Luke Knecht Editor: Jim Beckmann thx

[@dannychavis2413]

Great people!

[@bluecollarbytes7267]

psychedelic wonderful

[@MatiasPerezHdz]

It's so cool to see pro players on Squiers, just shows how good instruments they are for the value. PD. hate this new KZbin comment section

[@robertwhitford4723]

They are so Brilliant! Awakening in me the fist time I saw dream pop ' hate that label"; bands like ";Lowlife"; Coctea twins' ! ❤

[@oscarabello2739]

Que música !!!😮🤌🤗👍👏

[@ericvtutube]

didn't know this band but definitely sounds like 90's shoegazers - close to Lush - really love it!!

[@earconscious]

Robin produced both Lush & The Veldt within months of each other. They are credited with influencing the funkier beats on Heaven or Las Vegas!

[@luisgonzalezortiz428]

increiblemente hermoso!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@gomerhanger2285]

The a nice Vox Bossman guitar 🎸

[@renatomasuda9517]

what a trip 👏

[@augustonthefly]

There's 5 guitar players in this band.

[@sklegg]

“Let’s Play Guitar In A Five Guitar Band”

[@earconscious]

When 4 guitars are just not enough!

[@dianwilson4840]

how many do you have in your band?

[@waterpig84]

3 is max, cant really appreciate what the others are playing

[@ectoplasma5]

I think they use too much fx on everything,the sound is pretty unnatural.

[@victor16928]

So good!

[@dickilukmana9685]

❤❤

[@chriswillis6916]

If I listened to this music blindfolded I would have guessed it was The Cure from back in the day.

[@heideggerdowson]

What a band!

[@nahkubnah]

heavy

[@voodoorangerIPA]

Is this what ascension feels like?

[@user-yb3ll2ju2c]

nice sound

[@mattpeterson640]

Get these guys to play at Pickathon Please

[@silveraeroplane532]

Interesting!

[@adelightfullow]

jamaican cocteau twins

[@earconscious]

Carolina Cocteau’s or American AR Kane is a bit more appropriate.

[@alci720]

🤎🤎

[@icysurfer1]

I wonder if the cocteau twins have heard this. It's wonderful regardless :)

[@earconscious]

Yes Robin produced their first LP in 1989 which has finally been released, watch to the end for the interview!

[@Deathchult]

They need to rerelease their older material

[@earconscious]

This IS their first LP finally released after being shelved by Capital Records in 1989. They want to re-release 90’s material on vinyl but the sales have to be there.

[@GorgeousRoddyChrome]

“Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes, well, he eats you.”

[@jonerlandson1956]

It's a mystery...

[@AccurateCrabLegs]

I met their stylist in an insane asylum

[@travisskane5459]

Thanks for the upload of this fantastic and criminally underrated band. Is it just me or are the vocals too low and get buried in the mix while the drums could be dialed back slightly?

[@ald7248]

They have lost absolutely nothing as performers in 30+ years. Over the past dozen years I've attended many concerts featuring "classic" shoegaze bands from the early 90s. In most cases it's like watching washed up boxers stumble around and get pummeled. But not with these guys, though. Not even a little.

[@noahbullock6696]

So true, I saw them last year in a small venue in LA, one of the best shows I’ve ever been to, they tore the house down

[@allenhowell1574]

They are always just trying to be the Cocteau Twins but without Liz Fraser. Seems nothing has changed.

[@panchoverde5078]

Dang the host looks diabetic. Lay off the cheeseburgers and chicken sandwiches