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JUSTIN ON VOCALS, GUITAR AND SYNTHESISERS. CURRENTLY PUTTING THE BAND TOGETHER.
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I'D HAVE TO SAY I LOVE ALL MUSIC AND THEREFORE AM INFLUENCED BY ALL.
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| On a freezing winter morn at home in Connecticut, when I first heard Janis Joplin sing I asked my dad, who is this guy? He said, this is Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother and the Holding Company. I think my mistake in identifying her gender was my first indulgence into the world of voice.
I was eleven years old.
I wrote my first song in High School and after writing about a hundred more, formed my first band based around a dozen songs I wrote for that purpose. As my reading habits changed and by the time I formed my first band I was more interested in the classics and non-fiction then ever before. Reading beat poets and Hunter S and listening to more and more music infused my music with subversion and I tried to develop my early rock style into something more relevant to our time.
I wrote as a poet but found my sense of rhyme and rhythm always fit well in song. My natural instinct for improvising melodies suited my love of the blues where I could jam out whatever words came to me in a song like way. I looked up to John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Miles Davis, Marylin Manson, Maynard Keenan and the debauched, reckless loving excesses of the rock lifestyle.
Now I write to express myself and share my desire for uninhibited expression with the world. I write about everything I take in and I haven’t yet found a theme I can stick to as everything I experience; humanity, emotion, oppression, existentialism, inspires me in some way.
My new album, Stereo Gold (produced by Brett Creswell - Sick Puppies), is his first solo album and I'll be selling it at gigs (okay its on CDbaby, Rhapsody, etc. Some tracks are streaming on online radio stations in the USA and receiving airplay on Sydney local stations fbi, bondi radio, 2ser and national youth program, triplej. Feedback's been good.
Justin draws parallels between life, love and being. His music encompasses the orchestral, with band production bridging the gap between a sparse acoustic style and roots-rock expression. Justin, a multi-instrumentalist, has created darkly beautiful music which he feels is both accessible and unique and a sound very much his own. |
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