Jay Mankind - Guitar, Voice, Piano, Mandolin, Clarinet The Jay Mankind Pop-estra are: Lupo - Drums Wynn Walent - Voice, Guitar Kyle Ervin - Acoustic and Electric Bass, Voice Colobmo - Trumpet, Bells, Tambourine, Keyboard, Voice Matt Singer - Banjo, Guitar, Voice Jen Emma Hertel - Trombone, Melodica Other Band Members Who Are Suspiciously Never in the Same Room with Jay: St. American Logo Tree Pens I - Moral Support, Satori, Wit in the face of Grave Circumstance (and/or Inebriation)
Influences
Weather, Sleep, Whatever book I'm currently reading (As of 5/15 What is the What), Caffeine, Alcohol, Sugar, Various other Under-the-Counter elixirs, Lighting, Lightning, Comfort of clothing, Proximity to amorous opportunities, Hunger/appetite, Interest/attention/affinity from those around, Possibilities, Homemade mythology, Inspiration, Love
Sounds Like
Every other band you've ever heard. Whatever you do, don't listen to it. It's all the same old thing. Ho hum.
Or
Sounds like he hasn't ever spent the time and money for a full recording project.
Or
Sounds like he doesn't take the 'Sounds Like' section very seriously
Jay Mankind is a dilettante. He likes music. Quite a bit actually. He gets frustrated by his desire for it. He then realizes that the desire for that which he loves is causing him to suffer. He then expounds upon eastern philosophy/religion replete with tangents and spoken parentheses. He understands the solution yet ignores it in favor of blissful desire/suffering; simply robbing the suffering of its negative potential.
He would like to write a lot more than he does but that can be said for everything in his life. (See paragraph one.) When writing mypace profiles, he tends to begin sentences with the word "he." He sometimes breaks it up with a "when writing myspace profiles."
Once he wrote in his blog daily for a month. He proceeded to leave notice of said writing spurt, though pitifully outdated, from August 13th to December 15th. He hopes that the preceding sentence will not remain here untouched for that long.
As of several months ago, his undying love for music performance earned its title, when it awoke from it's long nap in the front seat and took the wheel. Since that time he has acquired a (new) mandolin, a clarinet, an upright bass and an electric piano and has enjoyed many an hour learning them. Additionally, he is chumming around in a budding bluegrass project called Clipper Ships. Clipper Ships are four singer/songwriters who convene semi-regularly to practice semi-seriously while getting semi-drunk and chewing semi-beef jerkey. Their laughs are fully-loud and they enjoy each other's company.
Greetings. I just wanted to thank you for your continued support and invite you to have a first listen on myspace to the tracks off the new EP "Monster & Minstrel" due out later this month. Bright stars to you! Ahmond
Jay! It's been way, way, way too long...too long that I don't even remember the last time we were in touch...sorry. Anyway, so glad to see Cross-Pol is still going strong. Congratulations! Are you still playing your own gigs? I'll be in NYC around Oct. 24th (uncle's wedding), so I am hoping I can make it to a show (and hopefully give an old friend a big hug). : ) Any other shows I should try to catch? Oh, I finally met Dan Fishback at our mutual friends' wedding in Oxford last year. Great guy. And I don't know if you've come across him yet, but I went to high school with Joe Thompson, of Joe Thompson and the Comfortable Catastrophe; he graduated a few years before me. The small world is ever getting smaller. : ) I hope you are doing well, and I hope to see you in October!
your presence is requested! Dan Bernstein's new band The Everybody Knows is playing a late set at 1 am. please oh please come by after the Antifolk Fest! xo.
Fantastic playing with you the other night. I'm serious about wanting your CD as soon as it's pressed! The first song you played (so beautiful) and 'A Mother's Shame' are in constant rotation upstairs.
in panama for a couple of months but the beach house in mx is freeeee and waiting for the arrival of a few new yorkers!! if you know any creators looking to escape send them to this! www. vrbo. com/205548 this is going to get me to the big apple soon!! heeeee
Awesome photos, man...wish I could have heard the show. Who were the trumpet players? I'm going to start a following for you here in Europe. You'll be the next David Hasselhof.
thank you SO much for having us out to play with you in new york. it was by far the best show of our tour/ever in new york. let us know if you're in michigan!
