 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
What Is Really Troubling My Mind |
|
|
|
|
|
The First Step has to start somewhere. I've wanted to be a rockstar/entertainer ever since high school when I didn't feel I fit in and I started to listen to KoRn. Now I am a Sophmore in college with no real plans for the future. I took class and stayed in school for some reason or another, but I really don't want a career. One day I was with my friend Thomas Price and we had a couple of cans of spray paint and I decided that I needed to "let the world know" that, that small town in Eastern Oregon is where it all started for me.... so I climbed up on top of an old water shed overlooking the town and spray painted IT STARTS. Representing both I need to start following my dream and this is where it all started for me. I started playing the bass guitar (I just wanted some kind of experiance with an instrument kaz I really wanted to sing) and writing pist off teen age songs. I still play the bass (It's been almost 2.5 years) and I still write songs... but they are more meaningful and I write music with them now. I still don't play with a group which I need to if I want to get any better, but most of all I'm just pist off at feeling like a nobody. |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is me about two terms into my first year! |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SUBLIME (Brad, Eric, Bud) |
|
|
|
|
|
Sublime is probably my biggest musical influence at the present time. From Brad's in-your-face-lyrics to the funky raggea rythum of Eric's Bass and Bud's Drums, Sublime is definatly one of the best bands ever. Their own influences were punk rockers like THE DECENDENTS, BOB MARLEY, and BAD RELIGION. I too have taken a liking to these other sounds of music.
Another one of my favorite bands at the present time (2-5-3 1:55pm) is Jessamine. I heard them through one of the coolest people I know a Mr. Justin Werner. From what I remeber him telling me (we spent many nights drinking and discussing music) Jessamine are from the Portland Oregon area (close to home) and that they already broke up. I always read musicains complementing other bands that noone has heard of... and I wanted to have a few bands like that, the one's nobody has heard of but are so much better than the shit on the radio. I went out looking for Jessamine info and with a little help with VH1 I got a few shortened reviews. Here are some of what are on VH1.com.
Option (11-12/96, p. 112) "...understated, calmly intense, grunge-influenced, space jams. Expanding on a guitar/bass/drum foundation, Jessamine weaves slow and moody synth effects together with occasional vocals by guitarist Rex Ritter....."
Alternative Press (10/96, p.89) 3 (out of 5) "... swooning bass-and-drum-driven grooves, whispered voices and otherworldy effects..."
I have had trouble finding pictures of the Jessamine menbers (Rex Ritter Vocals/Guitar; Dawn Smithson Vocals/Bass; Andy Brown Keyboards; Micheal Faeth Drums/Cymbals) but I do have pictures of their four albums.
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Self Titled; Don't Stay Too Long; Another Fictionalized History; The Long Arm Of Coincidence |
|
