There is an old photograph of Jared Bartman, age two, standing in short pants, a blazer, and bowtie, wildly strumming a child-sized plastic guitar. There is one of Jared’s earliest memories; riding to the barber shop in his father’s blue Mercury Sable, listening to the Beatles’ Please Please Me on cassette tape. There were the requests to play the song “Love Me Do” over and over again, just to hear John Lennon’s harmonica solo. There was an out-of-tune spinet piano in the basement, and that first acoustic guitar that had to be reconfigured for Jared’s left-handedness. There was a 1963 Slingerland drum kit, and there was “Beer Barrel Polka” on the old accordion. There was the copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Fisher-Price turntable, and the stack of scratched LP’s in their yellowed sleeves, found in the attic of Jared’s grandparents. There was Princeton and shows and high school. There was college, and there was a multi-instrumentalist composer named Erik Christian Juhl, a percussionist named Aaron Kavelman, and a record producer named Mark Rubel. There is a collection of Jared’s songs intended to be listened to in one sitting, in one specific order. There was the spring of 2009, when these four individuals came together to collaborate on that collection of songs, which have now taken shape as a record called Jersey Shore.
Awesome stuff bro- astonishing. Makes me wanna burn my guitar and stop playing because it's doing the music world a service of shame or something. eh. God is calling you. "Sign, sign, everywhere a sign." Peace.
hey
so we're back again with new members and completely new songs. It would be cool if you could check out our page and let us know what you think, even if you don't think anything of it. We have all the info on what's been happening in our new blog. We are playing shows again so come see one and come talk to us.
-and again sorry for commenting like this.
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