Hey Shave, what is your weirdest memory as a musician working on Uncle Joe’s American Odyssey?

Well, my dear friend Batt was out here in Boston and we all had some drinks and whatnot and ended up at a Chinese karaoke club singing and videotaping Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi. Before that we were at the Blue Moon Cafe and bowling pub in Jamaica Plain. Again, karaoke. Batt did ‘Dead Or Alive’ and freaking jumped off stage and slid across the floor on his knees. Batt always throws the best parties wherever he’s at! Pure gold. I can’t top that, even having done the movie’s ‘theme’ song, ‘Uncle Joe‘. 

Hey Shave, did The Odyssey inspire you to go down any other new roads?

Actually, it turned me on harder to the American Experience. Things we all took for granted from decades before 9/11. An innocence. It inspired me to pursue my SailorSam project which took 8 years. Inspired by America’s Bicentennial year. It also stayed in my mind post 9/11, as a contrast to the way we lived and loved and laughed freely back then.

Brian Riley a/k/a Jack Energy…

shaverecords.com (home of the bands, Echo Detective, SailorSam & Shave Librarian) jackenergyzone.com (powerful short stories, poetry & art)

Pete the Poet still writes poetry. He also co-edits the online poetry journal http://www.ADozenNothing.com.

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Hey Zariah, do you ever use chance elements when creating your music? If so, share a memorable time you did.

Hi Pete the Poet. In the music I created for this adventure, I was very inspired by the impromptu jams I’ve had in towns up and down the I5. I tried to channel the memories of being in a random shop on main street at 3 AM with my step brother in a pioneer town, as we jammed away with sloppy free formed blues, where emotion and dirt sauce were preferred over timing and synchronicity. Pretty much everything about those sessions were “chance elements.”

Pete the Poet still writes poetry. He also co-edits the online poetry journal http://www.ADozenNothing.com.

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