jamie

The punks gave him the inclination to pick up the guitar and yell, "hell, if we can do it so can you" being the cry to battle. As a tike he'd listened to his big brother's records- Captain Beefheart, Theloniuos Monk, Hank Williams, Sun Ra, James Brown, Robert Johnson and Johnny Cash along with the popular radio playlists. He didn't compartmentalize but rather developed an acute sense of the significant over the disposable. Stints in Actual Size (Pittsburgh) Poison 13, Prohibition, The Spoilers (Austin) The Candy Machine, Beautiful Losers (Baltimore) have led up to Jamie Panzer & Exercising Demons. "I'm not growing up so much as out. I couldn't write anything credible until I began to experience it myself".