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About Me

"Drum Whore" - I play in 3 bands. This keeps me very busy. Music is what makes me happy, so I do it all the time. I wake up, work, jam, sleep. Do this just about every day. For money, I work as a Video Project Coordinator for Technicolor, and enjoy learning as much I can. As a guy who decided not do any post-secondary edjumicating, I take value in learning through life experiance.
I’ve been living in Toronto for almost 4 years now, and I realize that there are some things I love about this city, and some things I hate. As for the love - I’ve been playing enough gigs to have met some really awesome, talented musicians, for the most part, it’s a great community here. I just hate the fact that just about every (there are exeptions) bar / club / promoter is more concerned with selling booze than offering patrons decent tunes. As for the hate - panhandlers, prostitution, crack-heads, crack-ho’s and random people asking for cigarettes. You can’t hide from this element, they’ll get you everywhere.
Aside from music, the gf, familiy and other friends top my list of thing important to me. I’ve managed to surround myself with some really great people who I’ve been able to maintain relationships with, well out of school. My family is great, we all get along fantasically, I wish I could spend more time with them, but one brother lives here in the city, and getting up to Lindsay every once in a while suffices.
So I plod away at life, hang my head in shame at what we as humans have done to this place and each other, but raise it back up again to follow through on the things I believe in.
If I know how to use the internet right, there should be a couple little videos here:
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For the record, I’m not a machine...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/19/2005
Band Website: cedarsongs.ca, hypercricket.com, jayspectre.com
Band Members: *Cedar:
Craig MacLellan - Vox, Guitar
Pete Nickerson - Bass
Brett Trider - Guitar
Scott Hazelton - Keys
Me - Drums

*HYPERCR!CKET:
Andrew Exworth - Guitar
Dave Fenton - Bass
Scott Hazelton - Keys, Vocals
Me - Drums

*Jay Spectre:
James Oliver - Guitar, Vocals
Rich Itzkovitch - Bass
Jon Hembrey - Guitar
Sean Segal - Percussion
Me - Drums

Discography:

1992 - Roger Gill
"Country Favorites" - independant

1994 - Glytch
"Self Titled" - independant

1995 - F
"U Guys" ep - independant

1996 - Glytch
"Buckets" - independant

1997 - Fat Chance
"Bologma" - Nefer Records

1998 - Fat Chance
"Mass Debate" - independant

2003 - Jay Spectre
"To The End Of The World And Back" - Dogbus Music

2005 - Cedar
"The False Narrows" - independant

2006 - Sunlit Ambush
"Invention of Water" - independant

2007 - Cedar
"Sturdy Soldier, Do Your Worst" - independant

2007 - Hypercricket
"Yet to be titled" - in production

2007 - Jay Spectre
"Yet to be titled" - in pre-production

Influences: Passion. In all it's forms.
Sounds Like: Lets just call this Media I enjoy...

Music:
Lagwagon, Sebadoh, Propagandhi, The Fheds / EndProgram, Eric's Trip, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Fred Eaglesmith, Silversun Pickups, Motley Crue, Smashing Pumpkins, K-os, Beastie Boys, NOFX, NUFAN, Rush, Pink Floyd, Strung Out, Jane's Addiction, Dino Jr., Greg Macpherson, Led Zepplin, Beatles, Jamariquai.

TV:
Futurama, Family Guy, Little Britain, Weeds, Heros, Arrested Development, Lost, Punched Up, John Stewart / Stephan Colbert, OLD SNL (Candy, Chase, Murphy, Belushi).

Books:
I don't really read much, but a couple I liked - Get In The Van, In Light of Other Days, 1984, Brave New World, A Breif History of Time, Cosmos.

Movies:
The Wall (all time fav.), Vacation, Crank, Jackass, An Inconvenient Truth, Die Hard, Clerks.
Record Label: Dogbus Entertainment
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

I’m scared.

New Pennywise album for free. NIN first 9 tracks, free. Radiohead, pwyc. I mean, I’m all for free music, my bands provide mp3’s for online streaming, but it’s nothing com...
Posted by jeremy drury on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:45:00 PST

New tunes uploaded.

Decided to spice things up here and switch up the tunes in my player, here's the low down... (what I contributed in brackets) "Just So You Know", as recorded by Fat Chance back in '98 - the song ...
Posted by jeremy drury on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:09:00 PST

Pete and Les.

Congrats on their new baby girl!!!
Posted by jeremy drury on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:21:00 PST

Tired.

I am. Leave the venue @ 2:00, party with my sister till 4:00... work this morning. Still haven't caught up on sleep from last weekend. London tonight, Lindsay tomorrow. It'll be Sund...
Posted by jeremy drury on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:19:00 PST

Hammer.

The Hype played the Underground in Hamilton last night... I felt old. The band that followed us, was made up of guys in the age ranges of 15-19. I know 'cause I asked one of thie...
Posted by jeremy drury on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:32:00 PST

Go gut, or go home.

That's what they keep telling me. But... there's more than that to it. I try to live by those words, (pulled from "Who Want To Be A Millionaire")... but it makes a lot of sence when related to e...
Posted by jeremy drury on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:55:00 PST

Sunlit Ambush on Radio Humber

Aight! Had our "Punched Up" episode air last night - I haven't seem it yet, but a couple folks here at work did, and gave a positive response, can't wait to see for myself! It would also appear ...
Posted by jeremy drury on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:41:00 PST

www.doubleapenny.com

Whassup? Whilst traversing this great land known as the interweb, I came across this guy named Ammar, who is working on making some money on the net. His idea, that if you double a penny a bunch...
Posted by jeremy drury on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:23:00 PST

EndProgram

Was awesome. My ribs are pretty sore. My neck is stiff. I'm not quite the spring chicken I once was. All good fun though. I think this was the split second that my ribs started...
Posted by jeremy drury on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:38:00 PST

Horseshoe x 4

So I'm stoked. All 4 of the bands are playing at the 'Shoe in January. We've got an open guest list for each of these shows, if anyone is interested, drop me a line and I'll get you hooked...
Posted by jeremy drury on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:13:00 PST