It is alive!
People are obsessed with the dead and
dying. A car accident happens and traffic is backed up for miles. Why?
Cause everybody wants to see the blood, guts and gore.
Which reminds me, some of you have have
been asking about my music career. So I've arranged for you to download
some of my songs. All you need is the Real Player plug-in OR (for much
better sound quality) an MP3 player such as WinAmp or MacAmp to play
the tunes. Both applications are shareware or freeware.
You can get all the info you need at
www.mp3.com. But... if it's all too much, just e-mail me at
mail@(nospam) mikejasper.com and I'll explain it to you.
(ATTENTION: This is a one-time deal,
folks. I'm leaving this page up for a few weeks and then I'm going back
to writing my column again.)
We're Number Ten!
Thanks to you guys, my song "Ten Years From
Now" went to #10 last weekend on the Acoustic Rock charts at mp3.com.
Credit goes to Tim from New Zealand, who kept hounding me to do this.
If you haven't heard it yet, go to www.myspace.com/jaspersongs .
Make it #1. Instant Play only takes 30 seconds.
See what I'm doing here? I fake you out for
two years with this column only to push my music on you. The old bait
and switch. Anybody want to start an MP3 pyramid scheme?
GRUDGEFUCK
I'm managing and producing this band. The
line-up is Tony Zacarelli on lead vocals and guitar, Cheech on lead
guitar, Bastille on bass and TheRicFurley on drums.
I've only known this garage band a few weeks
but I've grown to admire Zacarelli. He reminds me of me when I was his
age. He even looks a little like me, don't you think?
You can find the Grudgefuck song "The
Guillotine (live)" at www.mp3.com/grudgefuck.
Rock & roll, baby. Crude but creative.
Mary Carouba
Therapy anyone? I produced and engineered
comedian Mary Carouba's still-to-be-released CD tentatively titled,
"Take What You Like." A small sample can be found at
www.mp3.com/carouba. It's only a 1mb download for the MP3 and the
Instant Play version sounds great.
Brother In The Biz
My brother, Dan Eagan, is a business manager
in the music industry. His clients include Seven Mary Three, Days of
the New and Sister 7.
I know. If my brother is such a bigwig in the
music biz, how come I'm unsigned? To put it in his own words: "What am
I, a fuckin' miracle worker?"
Here are some of his up-and-coming bands.
GUNBURNER
The guy on the left, Billy Wells, is my
future brother-in-law. My brother is marrying his sister, Georgia.
This three-piece band, Gunburner, includes
Billy Wells on vocals and guitar, Jason Dudney on bass and background
vocals with Shane Wanek on drums. The music is what I call Southern
grunge and what my brother calls, "Three piece, whup ass!" Oooookay.
The band is #1 in the Rock&Roll and
Southern Rock category and #10 in the AAA category at mp3.com. Not bad.
You can hear this Florida band at
www.mp3.com/gunburner.
Matt McCormack
This is a cropped photo of Matt McCormack
measuring his penis. Just kidding.
I used to play second lead guitar in his
backup band until one day he looked up to find a 40-year-old on stage
with him. He does alt. country (I call it country rock) and he's a good
ol' boy. Originally from Memphis, he lives in Austin now.
You can hear his stuff at
www.mp3.com/mattmccormack.
Noble Jones
I don't know much about this band, so I'm not
going to make any wiseass remarks. I'll just let the photo speak for
itself.
But... I just heard their song "Leaving
Yesterday" and I must admit it's pretty damn good. You can hear it at
www.mp3.com/noble jones
The group consists of Floridians Robby
Williams on vocals, Shane Scott on guitar, Rikke Hansen on guitars and
background vocals, Al Kumick on bass and Cliff Greene on drums.
Little known fact: Each band member has seen
Riverdance 16 times! (Damn... I wasn't gonna do that.)
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STANDARD DISCLAIMER: This column aims to be funny. If you can
read anything else into it, you're on your own. Copyright 1999 by Mike
Jasper.
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