Grave Mistake, Sunday Night, Mojo 13, Claymont DE

Seventh Hour, Saturday Night, Marina’s, Blades DE

Guerilla Party, Sunday Night, Mojo 13, Claymont DE

My Version of It (kind of), Sunday Night, Mojo 13, Claymont DE

I posted this cheesy video from the radio program on my radio youtube site — and so far it has about 10,000 views.. I’ve learned one thing from this and one thing from Chili Petty — music fans are by far big douchebags.. I’m so sick of all the damn asses in the world.. it drives me to anti-psychotics.. i swear to you.. live and let die you damn bastards… JMX

FYI — the band in questions, these Creaky Boards fellows are claiming this is some kind of hoax now.. I put it on youtube just as an expirement in viral marketing.. make a video, link it to a big news story and watch your hit count go up.. the only real problem is.. I’m not sure how you can really use this to market your stuff.. I mean, look at Alexandria Dupre — everyone heard her song, but, I don’t know if anyone bought it.. or if Creaky Boards will now get world wide fame over this whole thing.. I think the key is to have something people like for what it is, not just piggybacking on someone else’s success or fame.. I don’t know.. more later.

A few years back, Dan Gaffney and I started a project with local Rehoboth musician Xavier Alexander. Here’s how it happened… Xavier had been in and out of mental hospitals for the last few years, being involuntarily committed by his family, he began showing up at WGMD radio broadcasts with his guitar and singing songs that has written.

He eventually came on the radio on Dan’s morning show to be interviewed and to tell his story. A year or two later, we decided that I would produce an album for Xavier that included new interview segments, in a way to tell his story.

Though we never finished an entire album, 5 songs were recorded and about 26 minutes of interview audio were captured that spring day at WGMD studios in Rehoboth Beach. Shortly after these sessions were taped, Xavier found himself back in the hospital (after a brief stint of moving some of his possessions including his guitar to the radio station).

Though we haven’t worked with Xavier since, these following recording tell a powerful and haunting, beautiful and scary portrait of a tortured artist at work. I recently unearthed these recordings, and not knowing what to do with them, since the album project is not happening, I’ve decided to post them here and at a few other sites. Although I own these sound recordings, the songs are owned by Xavier and I would not in any way try to make anything from them. I just want you to hear them. Therefore, I’ve uploaded these songs to playlist.com and below you can listen to the complete session the way we envisioned it that day.

Here’s the link to the Playlist.com playlist…

http://www.playlist.com/standalone/34398795

Here’s the direct URLs to the MP3s –

“Backwards Dreams: The Music and Words of Xavier Alexander”
By: Xavier Alexander

Words and Music written by Xavier Alexander
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals by Xavier Alexander
Interview by Dan Gaffney
Recorded and Produced by Jared Morris
Concept: Dan Gaffney/Jared Morris
Recorded at WGMD Studios in Rehoboth Beach, DE 2005

1. Backwards Dream
2. About Backwards Dream
3. About Mother Earth
4. Mother Earth
5. About Cover Your Smiles
6. Cover Your Smiles
7. About Keep Chasing Pretty Face
8. Keep Chasing Pretty Face
9. About On The Right Track
10. On The Right Track
11. About Xavier Alexander

Well, this isn’t a music post… But, I had so much fun with it at work today, that I thought I’d dual post it on talkofdelmarva.com and here… plus, here’s a little sample of what I do for a real living.. Here’s the back story.. One of my fellow co-worker’s husbands found a message in a bottle on the beach in Rehoboth Beach earlier this week and he was afraid to open it, so we decided it would be fun to open it on the radio today… actually, she text messaged me during the program, and even though I had a scheduled guest to talk about wind power, I canned that and said “Yes, Please come in!” — it’s so damn silly, but, so entertaining aswell… below is the video shot with my flip video camera.. what follows is the posting from my work blog talkofdelmarva.com, check it out!

Well, For all of those of you who have been wondering about the message in the bottle from today’s program:

 from WGMD News:

A message in a jar was found on the beach Monday in front of the Henlopen Hotel by WGMD’s Maria Evans’s husband. Maria brought the jar to WGMD for its unveiling. It was tossed into the ocean in Rehoboth Beach by someone with a Maryland phone number.

Here’s the youtube video of that portion of today’s program, this is one of those segments that’s kind of funnier to see than to hear, I guess… We all had a great deal of fun with it today… Thanks to all the callers who chimed in and to Maria Evans and to ML for the photos

For more WGMD videos from my show and misc station vids check out my youtube site at www.youtube.com/jaredmorrisradio

Am I the only person out there that still likes Jesus Jones? I miss them. I just watched part of their 2005 DVD Live at the Marquee - And, man were they awesome… There’s just something about early 90’s british dance alternative rock pop stuff that they do that really gets me.. I’d love to be in a band like that.. I’ve been having that feeling lately — here’s the question I ask… How do bands like Jesus Jones get a group of guys together who are all mutually interested in doing the same sort of music? Every band I’ve ever been in, everyone is interested, really, in doing other things… The first band I was in was an indie punk band that sounded like The Ramones on a train playing clean guitars instead of dirty… Everyone quit that band because it wasn’t the sound they were going for… the second band I was in was sort of Smashing Pumpkins/Sunny Day Real Estate-ish that got broken in favor of Trash Metal… The next few bands were me wanting to do music like The Cure vs. Math Punk — they broke up cause we weren’t tough enough sounding… even now, My band is two bands because we can’t focus on one sound… we often wonder if we should be three of four bands.. even now.. I’m writing songs that are decidedly darker than our classic rock/kiss/dirty blues inspired last record… We already have a whole album written and ready to be recorded and I’ve written at least half of a new album after that.. but, we’re splitting our time with a punk outfit, because nobody can really decide what they want to do.. I mean, and I’m guilty too.. One day I want to be Warren Zevon meets Aerosmith, the next day I want to be The Cure meets Jesus Jones.. the only real question is… Why am I only into bands that no one buys their records anymore?? I mean, you’d think you’d model your band after something people besides yourself actually like…

ANYWAY, the best (if not the best) show that I ever saw was Jesus Jones’ Mi-5 gig at Arlene’s Grocery in NYC in 2001 (May 5th, according to their Web site) — It was set up by Ted Mason of Mi-5 Records, the guy that used to be in Modern English (He played during his set “Melt With You” — though it sounded more like the Rolling Stones doing it) — Midge Ure and Jesus Jones were also on the bill.. Somehow, I got in touch with Mason via email and he set me up on the guest list since I was traveling up all the way from Delaware — So that was the first cool thing, but, being seriously almost up on the stage with Jesus Jones was the coolest… A band that was so big in the early 90s… It was crazy.. I even met Mike in the bar after the show… If I had a scanner, I’d scan in some of the photos from the show. Anyway, that was probably the best show I’ve ever been too.. — Although, I seem to remember their drummer, who was new at the time, did a false start during “Right Here, Right Now” and actually starting playing “Real Real Real” — or it may have been the other way around… Mike referred to the Jones’ as the world’s only One and a Half hit wonders… It’s sad to read interviews with Edwards now about how Jesus Jones’ isn’t really a band anymore and they don’t really have any plans for the future. Besides the DVD the only other recent release was 2004’s Culture Vulture EP — Which was kins of a cool concept… After the tracks on the CD, it featured the instrument tracks so you could make your own remixes of the Jones’ songs..

Jesus Jones sounds so much louder and rocking live than on disc… Just way better, and that DVD proves it aswell… It strips away some of the techno gleam off songs like “Zeros and Ones” and “The Devil You Know” — Well, I guess Mike has a new Country music project going right now called The Blazing Zoos http://www.myspace.com/theblazingzoos – Check them out.. and does anyone else out their love Jesus Jones?

I guess, according to the myspace site www.myspace.com/outlawcountryblog  Hank III’s latest album, supposedly called “Damn Right, Rebel Proud”, isn’t being released by Curb Records, the same kind of deal that happened with his last album “Straight To Hell” –  Here’s the information from their Web site:

Shelton Hank Williams III is a living legend of country music and a modern-day country music outlaw. Just as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings fought for creative control, more exposure, and quick turnaround of their albums back in the mid-1970’s, Hank III does so today.blog, where I’ll keep you informed about Hank 3, as well as all of the members of the modern Outlaw Country movement including reviews of albums, tour info, vids & pics, etc

Just like his last album Straight to Hell was held up by his label, Curb Records, his new album Damn Right, Rebel Proud is also not being given a release date.

With the Hank Williams name, Hank III could’ve been a superstar and made millions riding on his dad’s and granddad’s coattails. But Hank III has proven over and over to be his own man who does things his own way, whether the money is there or not. He is also the leader of the modern Outlaw Country movement, and a champion of the old and true style of country music.

Hank III’s fight is not just about country music. You may not like country music or you may not like Hank III’s music, but his fight is the same fight artists of all walks are fighting for creative control of their art. Weather you are a musician, painter, writer, sculptor, whatever, Hank III’s fight is your fight, and he serves as an inspiration to us all.

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