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Jamie Greer

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About Me

Hello. I'm Jamie Greer. I am a musician, music journalist, DJ, bartender and musicologist of the Windsor, Ontario music scene. I currently play in two bands in the Windsor area. The first is my long-standing roots rock band The Hung Jury , a band I started in 2003 with long-time pal Kelly Nicholls. It's since blossomed into a four piece and we've just been featured nationwide on CBC Radio's Definitely Not The Opera radio show, hosted by Sook-Yin Lee. The other band is The Golden Hands Before God Conducts Incredible Magic Band & The Spirits , a psychedelic garage rock band. We've also been on the CBC and played with some stellar national acts.I also write The Windsor Scene each month in Upfront Magazine, a small section that deals with news and notes from Windsor's vibrant and creative local ORIGINAL music scene. I also run a companion Blog with a little more intimate reviews, news, etc. I love this city's music scene and I try very hard to make sure people are at least aware of the diversity and sounds coming from our streets. Funny enough, The Windsor Star recently called me the "local music guru"...haha.

My Interests

Things that energize my soul: Hollypop in all her glorious forms, music, chocolate and peanut butter together as one, Guinness, love, camping, sleeping in, poetry, cuddling, documentaries about animals, movies about failed romances (and ones where they succeed), misfits (in society, not the band, although I DO like the band as well...), glam rock, being a rock star, gin, dancing, The Muppets, my harmonica, hanging with good company, discussing topics of importance or joking about things of irrelevance, picking up the pieces of a broken heart and watching someone else mould it into a new one.
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"Is something burning in here? Oh, it's just me."
You're a total nutball who will do anything for attention.
The first to take a dare, you'll pull almost any stunt.
You're one weird looking creature, but your chickens don't mind! The Muppet Personality Test
If I were a Transformer I'd be

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You will drink too much gin. Not the worst way to die, but you won't remember too much of your life. Hey, at least you made some people laugh!
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Music:

Currently listening to: The Black Angels 'Passover', Camera Obscura 'Let's Get Out of This Country', Patrick Watson 'Close to Paradise', The Besnard Lakes 'The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse', Taj Mahal 'Taj Mahal', Arcade Fire 'Neon Bible', The Beatles 'LOVE', Ratatat 'Classics', Ox 'Dust Bowl Revival'. All-Time Favourites: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Leonard Cohen, Jane's Addiction, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, The Band, Willie Nelson, Bauhaus, Iggy & The Stooges, New York Dolls, Velvet Underground, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Waylon Jennings, Tool, Kiss. Way too many!

Movies:

The Band: The Last Waltz, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, Microcosmos, Star Wars Ep1-6, V For Vendetta, St. Elmo's Fire, High Fidelity, About Last Night, Run Lola Run, Princess and the Warrior, Boondock Saints, The Blues Brothers, Lord of the Rings, The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, This is Spinal Tap, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Peter Jackson's King Kong, Wedding Crashers, Royal Tennenbaums, Reality Bites, Himilaya, Why Dogs Smile & Chimpanzees Cry, Winged Migration, Gandhi, Chronicles of Narnia, Sid & Nancy, BackBeat, Patton, Clerks, Dogma, Sin City, Velvet Goldmine, Labyrinth, Meet The Feebles, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhatten, The Great Muppet Caper, Muppets From Space, Muppet Treasure Island, The Dark Crystal, The Jungle Book, Girl With The Pearl Earring, Circle of Friends, Lolita, Grosse Point Blank, Ghostbusters, Animal House, Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues, Kill Bill, Napolean Dynamite, 50 First Dates, The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Hunger, Amelie, The Piano, Hammer Vampire films, Nosferatu, From Hell, Finding Neverland, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Legends of the Fall, Crash, C.R.A.Z.Y., Rules of Attraction, Marx Brothers, any movie with gratuitous nudity.

Television:

Don't really watch much of it. Rots the soul and creates a sense of nothingness really. And not the good kind of nothingness. But I do watch some things, usually after they come out on DVD...The Muppet Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Arrested Development, Lost, Deadwood, The Venture Brothers, Robot Chicken, Heroes, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.


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Books:

The History of the Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People (Francis Davis), Please Kill Me: The Oral History of Punk (Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain), The Beatles: The Love You Make (Peter Brown), Everyday Zen (Charlotte Joko Beck), Waylon (Waylon Jennings), Cash (Johnny Cash), Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs (Chuck Klosterman), How To Talk Dirty and Influence People (Lenny Bruce), Whores: The Oral Biography of Jane's Addiction (Brendan Mullen), Down The Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (Howard Sounes), A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole), anything by Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker, William S. Burroughs, John Lennon. I like the odd comic book now and then too: Nightwing, Batman, Outsiders, Fables, Astonishing X-Men, New Avengers, DC's whole Crisis thing (Crisis on Infinite Earths and the new Infinite Crisis), anything Booster Gold is in...

Heroes:

Anyone who inspires me or has inspired me to be better than who I am at any given moment. My great loves, who have left me broken just to reform the pieces in an evolving sense of self. Each has left fingerprints on a heart in progress. Also: the first person to combine chocolate and peanut butter; John Lennon; Gandhi; Che Gueverra; Subcommandante Marcos; Leonard Cohen; Charlotte Joko Beck; Jim Henson.

My Blog

Mod Club One Year Anniversary Party - Wed May 2nd!

This coming Wednesday's edition of The Mod Club at The Avalon Front will mark the one year anniversary of The Mod Club in Windsor!This special night will feature all kinds of wonderful fun, beginning ...
Posted by Jamie Greer on Wed, 02 May 2007 04:24:00 PST

New Hung Jury tracks up to hear (April 2007)

Well we finally put up all new recordings on our player at the Hung Jury page. Here's the skinny... "Dead Man's Hand", "Lolita", "War Paint" and "One Lane Man" are all live tracks recorded April 13th...
Posted by Jamie Greer on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:51:00 PST

The Misregard of Timekeeping

I've recently come to a surprise realization about myself. It could be because I'm entering the middle of my thirties, it could be because it's a particularly clear day as far as allergies go, althoug...
Posted by Jamie Greer on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:43:00 PST

Music Blog

I have a new Windsor Scene Music Blog. You can click on that last link there to check it out.
Posted by Jamie Greer on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:46:00 PST

My favourite NHL player of all-time

Peter Stastny, Quebec Nordiques. I became a Nordiques fan in 1978 as they were about to enter the NHL and have followed them through their relocation to Colorado (though I wish they were still in Queb...
Posted by Jamie Greer on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:20:00 PST

A Musical Journey, or Yet Another Survey Designed to Show Our Inner Psyches

The Music Quiz 01  Name one artist, band, musical performer you absolutely MUST see before you kick the bucket.Hmmm. Pau...
Posted by Jamie Greer on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:03:00 PST

The No. 1 Song of Your Life, or How Music Has Made You The Schmuck You Are Now

Okay, I know I was going to start posting a lot of my poetry and it seems I've stalled after poem number one. Well, that's because I have stalled. I plum forgot to post more. But I will, I promise! Ju...
Posted by Jamie Greer on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:08:00 PST

A Woman's Defence

Stereotypical male with a sheepish grin standing stalking right behind me. I will not run, I am not afraid! He grabs for me, spins me around to smell his smile and soak in his pres...
Posted by Jamie Greer on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:31:00 PST

Put Your Money Where Your Smoke Was (or Wasn't)

Ok, here's some observations, rants, challenges, etc. from me, Jamie Greer, since the Smoking Ban kicked in here in Ontario, Canada (more specifically, Windsor).TO SMOKERS:Ok, ok. I realize that you'v...
Posted by Jamie Greer on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:15:00 PST

Survey Says...

Moving this here...takes up way too much room! TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The SurveyName:Jamie Greer td>Birthday:August 22, 1972Birthplace:My mother's vagina.Current Location:A chair in my bedroom.Eye...
Posted by Jamie Greer on Tue, 02 May 2006 11:38:00 PST