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JOB THE RAVER

3 cheers to those who put 4th an effort to live, learn & love!

About Me

aka Jon N, The RaVer, Job, The Drugstore Cowboy, The Midnite Rambler, The Anti-Solar Spur & The Prince of Metal... I may be the last living lexicon of all that comprises worldwide wanderlust and good time,on high living. I somtimes wear thy emotions on my sleeve, & there's no dynamic worth covering up (except sometimes my naked ASS!). Quite simply, I've been branded! Like a qwik 2 the draw, battle to the death Rock & Roll soldier, I shall swarm! I've been called a modern day master of aural chemistry in the night time world. During the daytime hours, I'm lucky enough to spend my time gameplanning, managing, promoting, marketing & helping create various heavy music projects with/for some of the most fantastic rock & roll bands in the land. Currently teamed up with the hardest working band in the land ~CLUTCH~ as Label Manager of the recently founded WEATHERMAKER MUSIC! At night/early morning hours I live and love 2 spew forth theeee mightiest blues laden, tude ridden, drugadelic, punkinaceous and sacragorgeous Death Rock musik along with my tasty buds and filthy criminal friends in bands like MURDER 1, The CURSED and the crushing seven man psychadelic ensemble M1 BLUES ARMY. No matter what goes down in life, I'm a better man after sharing the stage with guys like Boytoy, Bobby Blitz, D.Lorenzo, Iceberg, Will Naga, Bramphetamine, Cucu Crazy Cat, M.Cristi, Spanish Fly Carlos, Steve Kreature & Lene Gene! These are my fellow tortured souls and broken hearted madmen who fuel my fire to be the quintessential Newark-born, Urban-bred Drugstore Cowboy on the move! We'll rock your ass till it's red as yer vagabond heart!

My Interests

I like things fast, heavy, high and brazen! INK! (Mostly black), Nights that never end, Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Southern Comfort, 1800, Partron, cheap jamaican rum, old Rickenbacker and Gibson Bass guitars, surfing, chopping, cuttin and poppin, snowboarding, writing, Porn & medication(duh), Sci-fi, doom, horror and fantasy reads, THE NEW YORK motherf**kin' YANKEES, and of course TRAVELLING like a road dog, avoiding jail time (they won't catch me alive again--haha!!!!) In general, spreading the ROCK & ROLL message!!!

I'd like to meet:

A modern day JANIS J.

Music:

This is my life, so the list is AZZ LONNNG! High dosages of Classic ROCK, BLUES, Modern METAL and PUNK!!! Of course the bands that hold the largest place in my HEART & SOUL are the one's I've personally toiled with from my humble beginnings at the ATL like CLUTCH, MELVINS, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, Savatage, TESTAMENT, Bad Religion, KID ROCK, Judas Priest, SURGERY, Street Dogs, RUSH, Queensryche, Blindside, SHINEDOWN, Soil, SUGAR RAY, OVERKILL, Badlands, Trans-Siberian Orch, etc...I've also CHOPPED and ROLLED on HAWKWIND, Wishbone Ash, MONDO GENERATOR, Golden Earring, Saviors, UFO, Thin Lizzy, Mastadon, Grand Funk Railroad, IGGY & the STOOGES, Saint Vitus, Obsessed, Flaming Sideburns, KINKS, Black Mountain, Traffic, RORY GALLAGHER, Baroness, Electric Wizard, THE VERVE, Cave In, Soundtrack of Our Lives, QOTSA, AC/DC, Priestess, Cult, Ministry, Fun Lovin Criminals, J.Geils Band, The Tubes, Bob Marley, Frank Marino, Supersuckers, Surgery, Fireball Ministry, DOWN, High on Fire, DEEP PURPLE, Alice Cooper, Pantera, Butthole Surfers, Marilyn Manson, MOTORHEAD, Black Flag, Gram Parsons, Only Living Witness, North Mississippi Allstars, Backyard Babies, Led Zep, Bad Brains, Death From Above 1979, Redwalls, Nashville Pussy, Secret Machines, BLACK CROWES, Corporate Avenger, Zeke, Thee Hypnotics, Blackstone Cherry, Artimus Pyledriver, Hermano, Gonzalez, Jet, RAINBOW, Atomic Bitchwax, The Bronx, Black Rebel MC, Kula Shaker, Scissorfight, Maylene & the Sons of Disaster, My Morning Jacket, Peter Tosh, The Exploited, Into Another, Cowboy Junkies, Ministry, Cro-Mags, Hellacopters, Black Sabbath, Riverboat Gamblers, Big Sugar, Blindside, Minor Threat, Corrosion of Conformity, Creedence, Big Sugar, Datsuns, The Faces, Mindfunk, Bad Wizard, Rolling Stones, Tommy Bolin, Non-Fiction, KYUSS, Amen, Kings of Leon, Brant Bjork, Porcupine Tree, GnR, CKY, Funeral For a Friend, Throw Rag, Scorpions, The SwoRd, Wolfmother, The Blue Van & sooooo many more.....

Movies:

I could name 1000+ but some great ones are: Raging Bull, The Professional, Trainspotting, Apocalypse Now, Death Proof, Natural Born Killers, True Romance, Mad Max, Goodfellas, Dead Presidents, The Usual Suspects, LOTR, Drugstore Cowboy, Taxi Driver, Marathon Man, Papillon, Braveheart, Memento, Child's Play, The Boondock Saints, The Shining, Children of the Corn, The Pick of Destiny, The Deer Hunter, Pan's Labyrinth, Casino, Pride of the Yankees (I cried like a baby!), Excalibur, Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, Almost Famous, From Dusk Till Dawn, & of course Planes, Trains & Automobiles! etc...

Television:

Not much goin on here...on occasion I'll check out Family Guy, Twilight Zone, X-Files (or) Law and Order.

Books:

I'm writing a guaranteed soon to be future classic as we speak... but I grew up trippin hard on E. Allen Poe, Ursula K Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, JRR Tolkien, Frank Herbert, Fritz Leiber, David Lindsay, Richard Adams, Stephen Donaldson, Gary Gygax, David Eddings, etc...

Heroes:

Anyone who lives by their own rules! My dad (RIP) I hope I can be half the man to my kids. Ursala K LeGuin and JRR Tolkien for captivating me and jarring open my imagination when I was 11 years old. My spawn, Alexandra, Nicolas, Natalie & Christopher(RIP) because they keep me alive both figuratively and literally. Ahmet Ertegun (RIP)for making my early music industry exxxperience as "rock & roll" as it's suppossed to be! Sid Vicious(RIP) & Capt. Sensible for inspiring me to pick up the bass. Phil Lynott (RIP), Lemmy, Pete Way, Geddy Lee, Geezer Butler for inspiring me to actually PLAY the bass.

My Blog

2000 f**king EIGHT in review, the first frolicking half...

I've been asked on numerous occasions to explain & write about my love affair with concert going,,, At my age, you'd think I'd be able to come up with a witty & halfway ent...
Posted by JOB THE RAVER on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:35:00 PST

HOW IT ALL BEGAN...

10 Years High! by NME's Charge LevinsonMurder 1 was origianlly founded in late 1994 by Newark, NJ Hoodlum bassist Job the Raver & guitarist Captain Klingon of the stoner rock outfit Dense, Moist &...
Posted by JOB THE RAVER on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:13:00 PST