My association with The Budos Band begins with my association with Verizon FiOS. In the summer of 2007 FiOS came to our house. With it came The NFL Network. The timing was cool because The Colts had just one the Super Bowl and The NFL Network was showing plenty of Colts stuff. At the time they also were showing a commercial for The NFL Network that featured a really cool song.
This was still in the time before Shazam and services like it were available. Fortunately I was able to use the fabulous internet to find out who it was. If I were smarter, I would have found out the song too but I guess I was lucky to guess wrong in this case.
I went on line and searched NFL Network commercial song. After combing through some results I found a post where somebody said It is The Budos Band. I jumped over to Amazon search Budos Band and a few days later I playing The Budos Band II ( the one with the scorpion on the cover). It was cool afro funk type jazz. The song from the commercial wasn’t there though. Again I search and this time found out that the song was called Up From The South. I went back to Amazon and searched Budos band and found another album. I confirmed that Up From The South was on it. It was there only other album at the time. A few days later and I was listening to The Budos Band I (The one with the volcano on the cover).
Again more great stuff! A year or so later and The Budos Band III (The one with the cobra on the cover) came out and found its way instantly into my eclectic collection. The Budos Band are really good and I have yet to find somebody who says different. Ken called them Budos Dudos. If you pay attention, you’ll hear snippets of Budos tunes in commercials all over the place.
Up From The South
T.I.B.W.F.
Ghost Walk
The Volcano Song
Budos Rising
Ride Or Die
Mas O Menos