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The story of J Biddy:
Jay Basiner, a.k.a. J Biddy, has been playing music his whole life. Coming from a musical family with his dad being a life-long professional musician, Jay began playing and performing violin, piano and drums all before he turned 10 years old.
Biddy moved to Portland, Maine in 2005 and quickly got work playing solo/acoustic music at various bars and clubs in and around the Portland circuit. He would play both cover songs (of which he claims to know more than 800) as well as his own music that he had been writing for several years.
In the winter of 2005, Biddy formed The Crossfire Inferno with college friend and bass phenom Dave Patterson and Portland drumming sensation Seth Kearns. Biddy quickly compiled a albums worth of songs he’d written and got the band in the studio to record his first record with The Crossfire Inferno. The album was “Restless” and on its heels, the band started becoming one of Portland’s most in demand bands.
In the fall of '06, Jay asked local guitar hero Maxwell Cantlin to join the group. With Max's guitar virtuosity along with his backing vocal work The Crossfire Inferno became something entirely unique, projecting the themselves to new horizons within the rock & roll framework.
Meanwhile, J Biddy was relentlessly writing new songs. As the group zoned in on its signature sound, Jay's writing reflected the band's strengths and soon they were playing more and more of their own music to the delight of their grassroots fan base.
It didn't take long for the band to realize that Jay's own songwriting along with the group’s progressive and unique approach to the songs far outweighed anything else they were previously doing. And so in October of 2008, they joined forces with producer Jonathan Wyman at The Halo and produced an album entitled "We Could All Make History", which is slated to be released on December 9th.
Because the new album triggered a sea change in direction for the band, they decided to rename it all together to cement their status as an original project. They decided the new name would have to exude the same feelings of activism and direction that was contained in both the songs that Jay was writing along with the current political shift in American politics.
Given this, the band decided on the name This Way, a summation of change and direction. For more information on This Way, visit their myspace page at www.myspace.com/thiswayband.
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