July 2005 Dates for Jason and AfterNine
Fri 7/1/2005 Private Party Mitchell’s Bay, Ontario
Tue 7/5/2005 Brewed Awakenings Coffee House Toledo OH 8:00PM
Wed 7/6/2005 Aubree's Ypsilanti MI 9:00pm
Thu 7/7/2005 Paisano's Bar and Grill (West Michigan Bike Night) Three Rivers MI 6:00pm
Fri 7/8/2005 Paisano's Bar and Grill Three Rivers MI 9:00pm
Sat 7/9/2005 Muskegon Summer Celebration (Tiki Stage) Muskegon MI 6:00-10:00pm
Thu 7/14/2005 Wise Fools Pub Chicago IL 9:00pm
Fri 7/15/2005 Gull Lake/Richland Track & Football Field Richland MI 6:00 PM
Thu 7/21/2005 Shots Grand Rapids MI 6:30 PM
Fri 7/22/2005 Cheer's Grand Rapids MI 7:00 PM
Sat 7/23/2005 Teazer's Bar & Grill Grand Rapids MI 9:00 PM
Thu 7/28/2005 Shot's Grand Rapids MI 6:30 PM
Sat 7/30/2005 Teazer's Bar & Grill Grand Rapids MI 9:00 PM
Sun 7/31/05 Ten Bells - WGRD Bootleg Recording Grand Rapids, MI 4:00pm
“Jason, I would give my right arm to keep you from succeeding in this business.”
Someone actually said this. We don’t make things up. We don’t embellish. But because we restate things that are said to u some people take things personally, that never should have been. This is a quote from an agent that we no longer work with. Because this newsletter is the exploration into what it’s like to be “in the business”, we think it’s important for you to see that some people in the business aren’t professional, and act on emotion. As an artist, conveying emotion is part our responsibility, but emotion should not rule the decisions we make in business. A statement like this, just helps us figure out who we want to deal with and who we don’t. Honestly, we’d love to give out the name of this schmuck, but that’s not good business practice.
STAYING IN MICHIGAN
While out in Arizona, waiting for the financial backer’s financial backing, the financial backer pulled the financial backing. Once again, something was promised, and, for whatever unknown reason, the promise was repealed due to no action of our own. So…..all we can do is react. Dwelling on issues gets nothing done. So at this point, DZZY Entertainment in Phoenix, Arizona will not be involved with Jason. Great ties from Brooklyn Bridge Entertainment are still in tact, and we hope to work with them at some point in this journey.
As for he last 2 months, other than a bit of debt created, the experience was remarkable. Contacts in L.A., Monterey, San Diego, Seattle, Tempe, Phoenix and points between, are one more step in creating a successful network of friends. All we have to do now, is book the routing dates through the middle of the country. We don’t have a time frame at this point to make it back to the West Coast, but it‘s on the list of “Things to Do“. Thanks to all the new AfterLifers out west.
Due to the fact that Jason has played from New York to L.A. we can now use the term National Recording Artists (technically we can say international, since we were just in Canada). This will help Artists 4A Cause book and promote.
Speaking of Artists 4A Cause, they have reinstated Jason’s contract, and with little effort have filled the rest of July’s calendar. This is what can happen when you have the right people working with you. Thank you Artists 4A Cause for being stable, and for the continuing belief and effort you employ into the goals we are all trying to accomplish. You can visit their website @ http://Atrists4ACause.com.
THANK YOU
To everyone over the last two months who has continually been part of this project with your emails and phone calls. Without Mercedes, there were some great points of loneliness cured by looking in the Inbox, or checking messages.
SONG SPOTLIGHT
One Brick Down Jason Eller 6/20/2005
Somewhere there’s a line
It’s a little bit fuzz, and I feel like a child
I just know it’s somewhere behind me
And I could turn around run right back
And not even find it.
I crossed a line.
Doesn’t matter how I got here
All that matters is someone got hurt
I have nothing I can offer
But I resign myself to recognize
I crossed a line.
It’s seems I‘ve put up a wall
In fact I’ve built a whole f*ing castle
I’m not asking for pity
But could you help me get this one brick down?
I’ve been scratching at it for years.
I have nothing I can offer
But I resign myself to recognize
I crossed a line
Excerpts from Jason
“Some songs are not written about a common topic, but themes and melody draw separate topics together to create a single song. I was getting a tongue lashing about promising someone I’d write them a song for a birthday present. This person has continually supported me and this project financially, emotionally, physically, and psycospiritually (if that’s a word). I made this person a promise, and as was stated at the opening of this update, promises are supposed to be kept. Well, I couldn’t come through. The worst guilt is that which we lay upon ourselves. She wasn’t as upset with me as I was with myself, and that, of course, makes it feel worse. So I began looking at everything I’m currently doing, and even though I didn’t come through, and put myself in a state of “enclosed-ness”, she is still willing to look in from outside and help me pull my bricks down even I put one up in the place where we just worked so hard to clear. That is friendship. So to my friend, this song is not about you; it‘s about me, inspired by you.”
That’s it.
That’s the AfterLife
AfterNine