PERFORMANCE DATES:
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Sunday, November 04, 2007
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11221
9pm / $0
Jerkagram
Aunt Dracula
Push-Pull
Tin Veil
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Toad's Place
300 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511
??? / ???
Jerkagram
Other bands to be determined
Please utilize this custom mp3 player to hear our music or visit this website to download it.
The following are audio examples of Jerkagram.
They are fluttering.
Jerkagram formed recently. It was an inevitable happenstance, as all four members had been jamming together wonderfully for a long period of time. Jerkagram, in this sense, has existed long before this website. The band consists of four stand-out young white businessmen from Connecticut.
Mark Palmer ( Love Us , Matter Puddle , Reciprocal ) looks like Matlock and plays like Matlock. He is a wonderful person with a deep affection for music and creation. He has a minimalistic style and uses trademark mantric themes with his guitar, but is never afraid to become a blur while playing. Mark has themes of generosity and exploration in his playing, and is influenced by all things.
Brent Gaines is a self-taught drummer who has been hammering away for fifteen years-plus. He is a firm believer in playing the images that are in his head. He has said many times to be an "enigmatic messenger of life," and uses his drums to extend himself through an aura of sound. He hits hard, but with love and respect. He wants you to listen.
Derek Gaines aka Gary Ghay (involved in his solo projects, Conncet 9 and Big Log ), is an important ambient guitarist. Heavily influenced by the crushing melodies of countless sounds, Derek offers a completely honest style. He creates vast ideas that the rest of the band can easily build from, and experiments with electronics to layer his concepts. He also has a love of sick humor, and has the element of surprise, as he is also influenced by tons of funny things, including Nintendo, obscure hockey players, stupid food, scat-mongering, and screaming incessantly. One night with his playing and you'll just know.
Pete Jackson likes beer, tits, and rock music. He also likes "computers with YouTube on them."
This band may eventually write songs, but we are strong supporters of the notion that music is constant and always influencing us, in an infinite amount of ways. So, we will simply be jamming all the time, and putting our jams and live shows up on here frequently. We are influenced by not only music, but all things around us, and, most importantly, by love, and the anticipation of love (even in hatred). Not only this, but our songs are completely improvised and unedited, to get an absolutely raw representation of the band members and their patterns as human beings. You could say that each song is like hanging out with Jerkagram! We feel behaviors in music mirror behaviors in personality, and we are proud to invite people into our unpredictable lives. Our music celebrates not major ideas agreed upon by the band members, but the journey of actually getting there, naturally. We think that the transitions in life are sometimes more important than the end result. ; therefore, we revel in these transitions. And when a big collective idea hits, it has a deep impact.
"When AMT record, the most basic parts of the tracks are improvised. Or else we decide on a simple theme and then improvise the rest. I dislike writing songs in advance. If you write songs then in order to make them perfect you need to practise. But music is constantly changing, depending on time and place and atmosphere, and attempting to tie it down never breeds good results. Especially when a large group of people is playing together, the more fixed parameters that you have, then the less spiritual communication there will be between the performers, and the end result will be boring."
-- KAWABATA, Acid Mothers Temple
Jerkagram is one hell of a band, as you can see. We sincerely appreciate any kind of attention and support from people, as we hope to not only inspire ourselves, but to inspire others to open their minds, explore truth, and do what is good for humanity, instead of pretending to do good for humanity. We want to show you your identities, but we can only do so if we are allowed access to the deepest parts of your skulls.
That is up to you.
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