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est. 1950
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Update 1.22.05 i sent this to a friend who emailed me about my recent decision not to tour with streetlight. after sending it i started receiving more and more emails pertaining to my departure and thought it best to post my response here for the curious: Hey Jamie,
i
have been tight lipped about my future with streetlight and the
ska world in general out of respect for my friends in streetlight.
although my touring with streetlight has ended at this time i'm
not ready to say that you will never see me again. i think people
had me dead and buried after catch 22 as well. i love to perform
on stage and enjoy all the people i talk to and meet at shows. at
this time it is in the best interest of my friends in streetlight
that they be the ones that speak pertaining to my departure. i would
never want to impede their success in anyway. they are all hard
working, talented, good guys that deserve all the success in the
world. i wish them the best and hope that our friendships endure
all the years of our lives. my reasons for not touring at this time
are personal and have nothing to do with my friends at streetlight.
i have two young sons who love the fact that daddy plays in a band,
but miss me when i'm gone. although this has been one of the toughest
choices of my life, looking at my two sons it clearly shouldn't
be. i never started playing music for the reason of performing in
front of people. music just affects me somehow in a way that i must
play. as a result of this desire it has been one of my sincerest
pleasures in life to be regarded with affection and respect by people
such as yourself. i don't deserve such praise. i've never claimed
to be the best at anything in life especially music. i've met people
over the years who claim to be better then others or talk @#$t about
other musicians. my reasons for performing were never to be better
then anyone else, but to express and vent energy and emotion in
a way that i felt was artistic, fun, and meaningful. tom's art is
a great place for any musician to do just such a thing. i have been
fortunate to meet so many good people over the years in music and
plan to continue to work at what i love for the rest of my life.
don't bury me yet. :)- |
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Occasionally people ask me what I've been up to lately, so here's some clips from my past and the present. It's been said that those that can do and those that can't teach. I guess I'm not a very good teacher. I've played with orchestras, meringue bands, big bands, pit orchestras, cover bands, and some gigs too strange to print. One project that seems to generate some interest is my work with Victory. At the end of last school year I started working through the nights on a new project with old Catch 22 band members Thomas Kalnoky and Josh Ansley. With three other new members we created a group called Streetlight Manifesto. Click the album cover for Victory Record's Flash ad for Streetlight Manifesto's debut album "Everything Goes Numb" available in Best Buy. A higher quality full length version is available at, Mr. Egan's Secret Files. Check the Streetlight link for news and info. Somewhere between C22 and SLM was BOTAR. For those not familiar with C22 here's some history. Back in the mid nineties I signed with Victory Records out of Chicago with a group called Catch 22. We recorded Keasbey Nights in NYC and later Washed Up out of Chicago. Touring soon became too much for my young family and I left C22. The last project I did for C22 was to write and produce some string parts for "Alone In The Crowd".
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