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May 2024

How Important Are You?

By |2024-05-11T16:50:02+00:00May 10th, 2024|Uncategorized|

How important are you?

One of the patterns we can see from years of educational brainwash is that we are one in billions, maybe trillions of planets.  Meaningless.

They speak of UFO’s, but honestly, it’s a bit like bending a spoon with your mind.  They show these things in movies, but no one’s actually ever seen a UFO or been known to mentally bend a spoon.  Now with holograms, I wouldn’t trust a UFO if it landed in my own backyard.  They’d have to take me up into space and show me something unearthly to make me believe.

Has anyone noticed that Netflix movies almost always have someone vomiting now?  I think in the last 20 shows i’ve watched on that channel, 100% of them have someone visibly throwing up.  Not to mention the word ‘fuck’ is written into scripts on an habitual and obsessive level.  Like, someone had to read it and ‘ok’ it.  Who?  I’d like to interview this genius.

What would be the benefit for those who control money and governments to make us feel sick, dirty and insignificant?  Of course the answer is simple.  They become our Gods.

So when I see a field of grass, I’m reminded of how important we all are.  Is one blade so?  Yes.

It may be disposable, but how many can be removed before you have a cancerous patch of dry earth?  And how fast can that dead patch spread?

When one blade of grass needs to grow larger than the collective, it causes the neighboring blades to die from lack of sun.  Also, it tends to die young itself from too much exposure.  In a sense, it’s no longer a healthy piece of grass.  It’s a weed.

I wish to be a blade of healthy grass.  Don’t need to stand taller.  Enjoy just being.  Don’t gossip or ridicule.  Don’t hate… but learn to fight with conscious awareness of your lethal foe.  Life is a precious, rare, beautiful wonderful gift.  People are magic, but have learned to be otherwise.  Our collective consciousness has to change now.

I admire musicians on YouTube who can do nothing but talk about music, but honestly, it’s just not at the forefront of my mind.  I don’t think music is that important anymore.  I know… it can put you in a good mood, make you feel angry, powerful etc.  But it’s temporary like a new car.  The feeling fades and we’re left with ourselves.

Most of it’s manipulative, you know… tough voice, sincere voice, sexy voice, babydoll voice… it’s almost all meant to seduce you and gain your vote… much like a documentary.  Much like a film.  Big sports as well.  In truth, we are what’s important, not the distractions.

I care about people, our country, all countries.  I care about civilization.  I see what they’re trying to do via all the channels they have of groupthinking us, and am disturbed to see how many just swallow it and wash it down with the next big lie.

Get in touch with nature, from the grass to the trees, from the birds to all forms of natural beautiful life.  Just because we’ve come up with names for things, doesn’t mean we understand them.  We know very little about who we are, where we come from and ultimately where we’re going.

Jude

About A Band

By |2024-05-07T20:58:26+00:00May 7th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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In this clip on FB today, Ringo took the words right out of my mouth.  To save you the watch, he was asked by Dan Rather how he managed to stay grounded, being one of the most famous people in the world.  Ringo’s response was that they saw Elvis when they first started, and Elvis had no one.  On the other hand, they had the band at all times, and together would keep each other in line.  If one started acting like a big shot, another just needed to give them that look.  Growing up in Silvis/East Moline was like that.

In essence, this is one of the empty pockets of my life in music.  I grew up in a blue-collar town playing in bands, and had a lot of friends from the same social status who could give each other ‘that look’.  When I got to LA, I continued as a sideman for different artists.  Tried to get a few LA friends to join me in getting a record deal, but they wanted to be paid.  Since there was no money to pay them, it was time to get busy and make it happen on my own, solo.

My gear in a 500 SF single apartment in 1985- A Yamaha acoustic guitar, 1982 Fender Strat, 1968 Fender Bass, Roland TR-707 drum machine, Panasonic boom box and a stereo with cassette deck.

I’d record the electric guitar, drum machine and live vocal to the boom box.  Then take that cassette, slip it in the stereo deck, put a new one in the boom box and record bass and harmony, and/or acoustic gtr.  This is essentially how I was signed to Warner Bros.  There were other more professional tapes too of course, but the song that earned the contract was Walls That Bend, done precisely as above.

After signing, it became painfully aware this was a lonely job.  Decisions for photos, videos, you and a director/photographer.  What’s on the rider?  You decide.  What to wear?  Ask your girlfriend.  Flight to Dallas?  Alone.  Backstage?  Alone.  Meeting with record company where their ideas really don’t match your own?  Be diplomatic, it’s one against 10.  Great review?  Read it to your mom.  Bad review?  Crumble alone.

Today I can look at the past with little to no emotion.  I became a manager for 25 years, so it’s easy to look at my career with a different hat and healthy distance… but it’s plain to see I was never hungry for fame because frankly, it was a lonely gig.  I was born and raised a band guy.

Today I enjoy making records, end of story.  I’m loathe to go to a show.  I find older men walking around with bellies hanging over Les Paul’s unbearable.  If they start doing that 70’s dance-walk thing i’m liable to slit my wrist.  I think the rock & roll culture is antiquated and kind of sad, but much prefer pop artists, young artists, or if they are older, have modified their act with grace and a sound that matches their age.  I just never got in the business to see a bunch of grumpy old men.  McCartney, Clapton, Sting and a few others managed to do it right.  Very few though.  And they were superstars.  Much easier to be forgiven with solid hit songs that were a soundtrack to millions of lives.

Anyway, not to belabor the point but pop music is best right outta the oven.  And for sanity when you’re young, best to be in a band!  In the words of the great Ringo Starr, peace & love ❤️

The church of “I Don’t Know”

By |2024-12-17T22:24:35+00:00May 5th, 2024|Uncategorized|

It’s God’s planet, but the devil’s matrix.

I believe making it through the matrix requires a respect and understanding of both. To just classify one as good and the other evil is simplifying things to a level of hypocrisy. This might offend the most religious, but it’s not intended that way.  If it does it kind of proves you’ve been brainwashed into thinking questions are sins.  I’m not saying to worship, but to respect a formidable force.

On one hand, God, creator of heaven and earth, also created a place where it’s kill or be killed. Survival of the fittest. Circle of life. We love the rabbit and torture the mouse. We detest those that would use horse meat in their meal, but kill cows by the millions and suck them down with ne’er a thought about the animal’s sacrifice.  Which one displays our love of God?  Which makes us evil?

Satanists, Freemasons, Jesuits (yes I would argue the Catholic Church has been overtaken by Satanists)… long list here.  The light bearer… many scientists, physicists, mathematicians, doctors etc. … they have an incredible work ethic, help many people with aches and pains, even bring some back to life, and also do not believe in God… or should I say their higher power is Lucifer. Some aren’t aware the groups they belong to have a hierarchy that do worship him, i.e. Freemasons (low level), Shriners Club etc.  Look at the emblems.  Satanic symbolism is everywhere.  Even your favorite pop star Taylor Swift pays homage to the serpent in some part of her uniform at most concerts.

Who devised the world and grid we live in? Was it Khazars? Mayans? Inca Empire?  Maybe it was The Nephilim or Anunnaki.  Should we thank them or despise them? Can you even imagine a different life on the planet? We have nothing to compare it to. We’ve been indoctrinated into this living. Life might be wonderful without cities, governments, taxes, regulations, pop songs, movies, sports… the ‘System’. Who really knows?
Is the earth a perfectly round sphere traveling at light speed or a somewhat flatter, still planet? It’s an argument that’s gone on for centuries, yet the argument according to NASA is now closed.  You think there’s proof, but you really only know what NASA tells you.  Are they even to be trusted anymore?  I don’t know.

You’ve never been in space to witness it for yourself. I’m not saying this to instigate an argument, but to open the thought process about what we truly know first-hand, and what’s taught to us since childhood. What’s a real photograph and what’s a painting?  Why would our own significance matter to people who want to see us disappear, eat bugs and stop wasting ’their’ resources.  Are we less than a grain of sand, or is God giving us a chance at eternal life in a one-of-a-kind heaven called Earth?  Once you realize how much we’ve been lied to, you begin to question everything.
So without a real way to find absolutes, we just do the best we can. We need to stop pointing the finger at other citizens who are making decisions and developing beliefs based on shitty multiple choice questions designed to keep the winners winning and losers begging.

I choose God. It’s not a knowing, it’s a faith. This is why I don’t preach. I honestly don’t know what’s on the other side of life, or for that matter what’s literal and what’s parable in the Bible, but I choose the path that led to the magic of classical music, giant beautiful and inexplicable structures called cathedrals crafted in God’s name, and so much more.  We walk amongst these creations and think we’re more enlightened than those who built it all.  We suffer from a toxic level of ignorance and arrogance.  This, too is by design.

Also, in my opinion, those who’ve openly sworn to Satan and have hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to show for it… they just never look happy.  There’s almost never that true life light in their eyes.  They worship the dollar, and the dollar has no spirit at all.  Nothing to give them back but more ‘stuff.

All we think we know our TV’s and internet taught us.  Some school books that were taken over by The Rockefeller’s long ago.  Same with the AMA, big Pharma and a hundred other institutions.  We know what they want us to know.  We believe what they want us to believe.  I hope we can find some humility and begin to ask questions of everyone and everything. Without a willingness to admit we could be wrong, we’re doomed.[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

April 2024

Evolving Talent

By |2024-04-09T22:03:06+00:00April 9th, 2024|Uncategorized|

I’m acquiring a new skillset.  I can often see in someone’s eyes that they are unable to compromise their belief system or indoctrination.  The type who will not only get angry at you for disagreeing, but wish you cancer or death for it.  This is a growing trend in America, and it’s coming more from the hard left than the hard right.  Who, in the 70’s, 80’s & 90’s would have ever believed this possible?

I had people so angry at me for not getting tested or vaxed for Covid, that I lost relationships.  More than one hand.

Now that the vax has been proven ineffective and worse, no one is stepping up or standing up admitting anything.  They’ve simply moved on to another thing to hate 🙂

Know you’re in a cult when corporate America agrees with you.  The conspiracy crowd has no such groupthink.  The only thing we have in common is knowing we’re being lied to.

March 2024

Back In The Day

By |2024-03-02T19:40:27+00:00March 2nd, 2024|Uncategorized|

Sometimes the hardest thing about getting older are the war stories.  When I meet a young musician, they want to open things up, play with them, create something new, then get another toy that helps inspire them to do the same.  When I meet up with friends my age or older, they often want to talk about things that happened 30+ years ago.  It reminds me of guys I knew that would glorify how high they were in the 80’s, how much they drank, how many girls they slept with…  they’d always end it with ‘i’m lucky to be alive’ but it was a way to glorify the rings around the tree.  It’s not as boring as it is constant.

We’re also in the age of disclosure.  If we were magicians instead of musicians, there’d be no more magic shows or magic wands.  All the tricks are freely given away to anyone willing to subscribe.

This was unheard before the internet owned us all.  You think I could find out Bob Clearmountain or Chris Lord-Alge’s process, entire list of boxes, chain etc.?  Only if I were their 2nd engineer.  That’s literally the only way you could find out someone’s secrets… if you had to set them up.

Now with YouTube everyone is showing everything.  There’s a lot of fun in this of course.  I love finding out the secrets I always wondered about.  9 times out of 10 the answer is much simpler than I thought… but the mystery is gone too.  Not the worst thing.  No need to have all this mystery… not in professionalism or in fame for that matter.

It was just different… back in the day.  There see I just did it myself 🙂

February 2024

Single Release

By |2024-02-17T17:54:26+00:00February 17th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Releasing a song in the digital world is a new foreign experience… but the fact is i’ve spent enough time in the futile world of developing artists.  Now i’ll invest in promoting my own music, whatever way it seems practical and appropriate.

Which brings me to promoting on YouTube.  We’ll see if it means anything tangible or if it’s just a course in unfulfilled promises and ‘thank you sir here’s your invoice’

I’m hopeful it’s like Spotify in that you’re promoted, even added to playlists in countries you invest in, and those impressions over time result in growing an audience.  I can’t honestly say that’s the case yet, but it’s certainly worth a few solid efforts.

Anyway the single is out, and the climb begins.  For what you say?  I have no idea… but I hope people like it.

ABBA, and why they matter

By |2024-05-11T06:30:21+00:00February 10th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Here’s a thing about ABBA.  I loved them when all the others my age were laughing.  In 1979, London, the NME and Melody Maker were setting the trend on what was in or out.  ABBA would have only been mentioned in either of these rags to be ridiculed.

Which brings me to one of the many things I admire so much about them.  They simply weren’t reading it!  Björn and Benny would go off to a remote cabin in Sweden and just write songs.  They were so oblivious, or mature you might say, to what was ‘hip’ that they just couldn’t be bothered.  They were trying to write hit songs.  Their legend has far surpassed that of The Jam, The Sex Pistols, U2 or anyone else those hipster magazines were frothing on about.  I knew it then and it remains true today-  very few of those trendy bands had any songs.

Another thing I admire about this band is how real they are when describing what they did and how they did it.  There’s no hyperbole.  No polished stories that hint a re-telling for the thousandth time.  Watch some of the documentaries out there about them.  You’ll be so pleasantly surprised.

To this day Agnetha has one of the most lovable, kind faces.  She has never tried to act younger than her age.  She’s grown older gracefully, and with nothing but class.

Yes, there’s a lot to be learned from ABBA.  They matter on all dynamics.  The music, the writing and production, the engineering of Michael B. Tretow.  The unwillingness to buy into the emperor’s new clothes of ‘lifestyle’ over plain old good songs.  Their elegance and aging with class.  Their pragmatism and lack of public drama.  Their undying success.

So, to ABBA.  They are in my top 5 of all time… and i’d say high in that top 5.

Pop Gurlz & Boy Bands

By |2024-02-10T23:23:24+00:00February 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|

In the early 2000’s i wrote some songs that were a little out of my wheelhouse, but i’ve always been a huge pop lover.

The first, I Got A Woman is a song I wrote and produced for The Backstreet Boys.  They performed it at Henson Studios in Hollywood

but never included it on their record.  I have no idea why, except they were very sensitive about my instinctive leanings toward AJ as lead vocalist,

as he was so clearly the best singer in the band.

The 2nd track, My Time was written by me and Jason Wade, produced by me and mixed by Chris Lord Alge.  Performed by The Clique Gurlz, same story… the mothers got a little upset that I was pushing the lead vocals to Paris, the youngest girl and most obvious real singer in the group.

Bands are sensitive, and producing is a therapy job.  Being a musician who had to face a lot of news I didn’t necessarily love, I may have lacked the skills to sell them in the best way.  Ah well… all in a day’s work.  The songs are now vintage but still hold up pretty well!

Links below

Cheers,
Jude


 

January 2024

Life Of Luxury

By |2024-01-18T23:14:45+00:00January 18th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Written in ’85 in my little apartment right below Runyan Canyon.  Struggling times.  Working as bartender from 4pm until 2am.  Getting home around 4am..this was my only real time to write…  So i’d go in the bathroom where the acoustics were pretty good with less chance of disturbing neighbors, then write and sing until I couldn’t hold me head up anymore.  Eventually, around 6am I would sleep… until 2pm, then start the day over again.

There was hope then.  And I hope people in their young 20’s feel that same hope I did.  I don’t think it’s as simple now, but I wish it for them.

Life Of Luxury

written: 1985

released 1987

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