practice and improve

for some reason I always end up updating you guys and girls really early in the morning, for example, it's 2:28 AM, very unappropriate for a blog update. but oh fiddly diddly, who cares.

right now i'm kind of in the middle of my first album. using a metaphor if you will, there's this timeline...say...from 1908 to 2008...and overall i'm somewhere in 1967 or so...when things begin to change. I couldn't tell you exactly how to describe my sound. One whole week may consist of just piano tracks i've layed out, or heavy bass guitars with sitars mixed with distorted, light organs and spacious sounds. i'm getting really creative and am planning on having a really unique, inspiring first album. well...at least that's the general plan.

I'm beginning to reach that point where I can't get much bigger, so i have to get better. Putting out an album, by yourself, is really more work than I thought, but i'm managing it well for such an early endeavor. I do want to go ahead and mention that a song I wrote 3 years ago in my room in oklahoma, called Let Me Explain, is going to be pitched to the band Yes. I, personally, haven't heard of them until i found this out. But I listened to them and just thought "Something I wrote from a first time love is being pitched to a band like this?" I would have never thought...and still 'till this day i'm in awe sometimes. Maybe because I don't believe it, or i'm always hard on myself.

but mostly i wake up every afternoon, stretch out a bit, run through some exercises for my playing abilities, and begin the creative process once again. my mind is alot like that myspace layout you see right now. a big, beautiful mess with lots of detail and color.

hopefully that will be the same description for this first cd.

The album is expected to be called "Soft And Out Loud".

jeremy

Everything Starts

Briefly, I will tell you how this all got started.

I was right before the second monday of August, right before my junior year in high school was about to begin, when it had been all summer long with me working. I had a 61-key, lighted keyboard my brother had given me a little before that time, but never played it much because I wasn't confident enough to get serious about it.
(you have to keep in mind, at that time in any teenagers life, and with parents who had doubts in what dreams you have always had since anyone had first fell in love with music, it was really hard thinking of chasing a dream that nobody else could see)
Well back to the story, it was mid-junior year when I had Mrs. Johnson's advanced choir 6th period, and luckily there was a piano in there. So I had the chance whenever we were done singing, to learn a bit more about the piano and different chords there were, and things were slowly starting to piece themselves together.
I, and still am, trained by ear and pick up on anything, in any tune. So having an ear, and being very experimental in different styles, genres, and ways to play it, it was a definite advantage growing more, musically.
The most special part of this was the friends who supported me. And by that, I mean the people who told me if not daily, at least once a week, that I could go places with this, and that "I was getting better at the piano". I couldn't, and don't think any famous, successful musician, at any extent, can explain the thanks owe'd to the people who support musicians. It's really friends and family who make an artist, unless they are born wealthy, then that's an entirely different playground of it's own. No offense who started out in money, but this is something coming from someone who certainly doesn't have that issue locked in their pocket.
After friends confirmed their opinions, by the end of senior year, with numerous coffee shop shows at Jah Jah's, with maybe 15 people or so on a good night, I was scared on even thinking such a decision about making music as serious as I wanted it to be. I mean, I want to give everyone what they would expect from me, (especially to all you old school fans out there), but create every note in what could be a very good start for me, for my pure enjoyment.
People can run alongside of me as far as liking it or not. Freedom of decision, I'd like to proclaim.

So to any promoters, lovers, fans, familia, street perfomers, bro's, ho's, or anything that go's,
aliens, animals, artists, bands, band members, band managers, labels, producers, actors, hippies, or simply children of the sun....

thank you for continuing this reality with me.

-jeremy

the Seahorse Chicken

This specimen was found by an anonymous friend of an archaeologist. It appears to be the Seahorse Chicken, long lost after the worlds first Ice Age era. Many believe this was the evidence that chicken and seahorse alike could love one another, and things would be okay. Sadly, Mr. Sanders, from the KFC gang, thought other wise, and burned this poor creature to it's crisps, and buried it thousands of years ago. This was found in Okmulgee, OK at a local cafe. The discovery was made by Will.

-jeremy