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About Me

Experienced musician, experience with drums including all percussion. Performances Include: Horace Tapscott, Chick Corea, Bennie Maupin, Billy Childs, Billy Higgins, Lowell Fulsom, Perry Ferrell, Watts Prophets, Alkaholics, Freestyle Fellowship. Leadership skills: led hip-hop/jazz band (Underground Railroad) organized bookings, tours, finances. Experienced Producer, Pharcyde, Freestyle Fellowship, Medusa, Acid Reign, Volume-10, AC Alone, Olmecca, and Jah Orah, Rifleman , Bus Driver,T-love,Suga B ,and 2 Mex. Recording Engineering for , Eyrkah Badu , Madlib , Georgia Anne Muldrow , Dudley Perkins , George Clinton , and Disney Studio Projects . Technical skills: Consoles: Neve VX (s), Flying Faders. SSL G series, Mackie D8B, set up and tear down sessions, soldering, patchbay, session documentation, studio etiquette, attention to detail. Computer skills: OSX, Windows XP, Pro Tools HD, TDM, Reason, Digital Performer, Ableton Live, and Waves DSP, Foley, and sound design. 2003 Journeyman Certificate, Musicians Institute RIT Program. (Outstanding Student Award recipient) 2004 Music and Multimedia, Pasadena City College
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Member Since: 7/8/2006
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Band Members: The Underground Railroad is J.M.D. drums, keys,vocals, bass , percussion, production,programming & engineering./ Reggie Carson , acoustic & electric bass.vocals,moog synth./Randall Willis all saxes,vocals, arrangements, and good vibes./Robert "Bullit" Harris Guitar,Lead vocals,and chank stank./ Onaje Murry Vibes,Marimba,percussion,vocals./Poppa "Dee Andre" Littleton conga,cahone, vocals,and all that little flavor stuff./ Jon "Madcap" Williams Trumpet, and Jazz musician attitude./ DJ- E.S.P Wheels & wax./ The Piano chair all BAD kats / Billy Childs / kenny Crouch / Charles Love / Grant Peters / Bobby West /And last but not least the Phantom!!!!! The great Horace Tapscott.
Influences: Jesus-Louis Armstrong-Miles Davis-Art Blakey-Coltrane-Horace Tapscott-Billy Higgins-Tony Williams-James Brown-Jimi-Wane Shorter-The Last poets- Juno Lewis- And All The Elders in The Village
Sounds Like: BLACK MUSIC YOUR UNCLES RECORD COLLECTION....
Record Label: Earth Quake Daddy Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Buddy Miles

Aint nobody ever hit the drums harder on the one than Buddy .The Band of gypsies record changed my musical life as much as any Miles , Trane , James Brown , or Sly Stone record ever did .I remember di...
Posted by Jamm Messenger Divine. on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:21:00 PST

The giant middle finger !

You know I gotta love an MC named John Brown .I live up in Altadena Cali .near a mountain named Brown Mountain .It was owned by one of the first black timber millionaires in the 1800 names James Harr...
Posted by Jamm Messenger Divine. on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:26:00 PST

How can I maxamise my free time to be more creative ?

I can only be creative between the hours of 9:30 am to 1:50 pm .Thats drop off and pick up times of my children .Thats hard for me because I don't always feel creative in the morning .I want to have ...
Posted by Jamm Messenger Divine. on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:50:00 PST

Max Roach

Max Roach gave me and one of my best friends a pair of sticksback in 1978 .We swore up and down that we would never lose or break them.Them joints cost like $5 ,a lot in them days.But you know how you...
Posted by Jamm Messenger Divine. on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:57:00 PST

Pimps Ho’s Grills and wheels

Is there something else we can sing or rap about ?Hip Hop is supposed to represent the streets and whats going on in the lives of our young people....I can not believe that all there is.Can't Y'all co...
Posted by Jamm Messenger Divine. on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:26:00 PST

Do you think of yourself as a "Thug" ?

If you do, than your a Sell out ,modern day uncle Tom, Jigga Boo,step and fetch it ,skinin and grining Coon. Your Doing more harm and Damage to your people than 400 years of the KKK. Think about it......
Posted by Jamm Messenger Divine. on Wed, 09 May 2007 10:52:00 PST