If
you are currently located within
the depths of this website than
either you absolutely love issue
10 or you just have an unknown mouse-clicking
disorder. Well, either way.. i can't
stress enough to you that i adore
each and every one of you fans that
keep faith in us. in a way, you
all are like part of the band. i
thank you sincerely. Lately, it's
been truly a knarly learning experience,
and a generally opaque situation.
i never exactly know what the band
has got in store. we are that spontaneous.
definately a superrad adventure
being part of a band. whether we
journey through the perils of opinionation
in newly-found brother-hood, or
just continously consuming slurpees
and jack in the box tacos like there
is no tomorrow, every last thing
we do together forces us to grow.
we nurture each other you might
say. so, cheers to all my band mates.
i admire each one of you in several
ways. sorry i don't casually show
it, but i do. It's all about the
music.* i am from a musical family,
so carrying out the traditions of
creating compositional pieces is
not unfamiliar to me. it's primal
instinct. to you, i apologize that
i am not embellishing you with my
life story of how i got into music.
i would much rather have a one-
way conversation with you as a friend,
and not a fan that lives under my
calliber. Get me? Besides, if you
wish to become closer to to issue
10 as a fan, than do what fans do
and go to our shows!!! (*try gigs*),
but i do want to pay gratitude to
those who shaped and sculpted me
into the musician i am today: Earth
Wind and Fire, Parliament Funkadelic,
T.O.P., stevie wonder, charlie parker,
john coltrane, washington grover
jr., the roots, talib kweli and
mos def, black eyed peas, jurassic
5, incubus, charlie hunter, dave
matthews band, davina, and ronnie-lee
and the blues family. without exposure
to everything,universally, there
is no room for variation and flavour.
everthing is everything and also
an element that pursues music in
further diagonals and directions
that you and i might not ever get
the chance to understand. like me,
music will never stop growing, as
i can never stop growing from it.
i am honored to be making it and
i am greatful that those who choose
to grow with it do so. so long..
i bid you adu'...
truly yours,
Jordan McMurray
...one love, yall! |