Happy (Late) New Years
Welp, I’ve been out vacationing in Jamaica for a coupla weeks and I never need to hear Bob Marley again. Seriously though, it was a great trip and got to watch friends get married in front of the Caribbean sea. As you can see to the right, the days of sun and drink had an effect.
Things (Jones) are pretty much dead. I’m not too interested in the band performance deal right now and quite frankly I’m all out of fresh ideas for it. I realize we never played out that much, but I felt stale doing the same 20-30 songs over and over. We never got to practice properly for gigs and learn or relearn new or way-old material. Maybe we’ll reunite at some point. Who knows. Everyone is quite busy with other endeavors. I thought about creating alternate or fill-in lineups but was really too lazy to go thru the re-learning curve again with new folks.
I’m working on a new, over-the-internet project with one Chris Cannon of Gentlemen Losers fame. The idea is to make an album together, writing bits and pieces together, starting one part, finishing others and transferring files back and forth until we agree they are done. Should be a lot of fun.
Hope to see everyone out at the various clubs and dance halls next month! Be sure to go to Amanda/Bocatinta.com‘s last Thursday ‘Listening To’ show on Feb. 1st. Amanda is gonna concentrate on booking her stable of bands and promoting them. She’s done a great job with us for sure!
I’m bummed out to hear that the Jones Thing is not happening. I recently became a fan of your music and was looking forward to future Jones Thing music and buying that new cool-looking logo on a t-shirt! (Yes, I am the designer from the Worth1000.com contest). Thanks for picking mine and hope you continue making music any way you can!
HI,
Looks like you indeed had some tropical fun judging from the Box o’ Jones photo.
The over the internet project sounds like a good challenge. Bet something interesting comes from the process.
I think I comment for many when I say we sure are glad you recorded your songs. We love listening to them over and over and are just glad that you shared them with us in the first place.
Please keep posting as you work through your creative processes.
We are interested!
Cheers,
Jim.
that’s quite a picture. if i saw that in my house i’d call either the x-men or an exterminator.
cannon, jones…can “Orbit 2007” be far away??