I am a modern-day Renaissance man, the Rock and Roll DaVincci: musician; record producer; web designer; artist; individualist. I’m a contemporary throwback. A man of crass with a touch of class. A moderately liberal conservative. Old enough to know better but still young enough to do it —and I’m always ready!
I’ve been a drummer, guitarist and songwriter for over twenty years, playing many different styles of music, from; punk; industrial; metal; goth; plus a smattering of jazz and country. I’ve played in many local bands — most of them you ain’t heard of — on and off since 1986. My current thing is the Modern Throwbacks, which is like AC-DC and Stray Cats having a bastard child.
I’ve produced records for most of the bands I’ve been in—plus a few others not my own. I was the audio engineer for the TV show Drinking With Ian during their tenure in the Seventh St. Entry from 2004 to ’07. Throughout 2005 I was sound and stage manager for Lili’s Burlesque. It was the lovely ladies who performed there who first called me “The Jack.”
I’ve done other things besides: I put on a burlesque show with former members of Lili’s at the Triple Rock Social Club in 2007; I emceed a large New Year’s Eve ball in 2006; I created the “DEGENERATE!” dance night and KarnEvil Noir at First Avenue in 2004; I’ve written a full length Start Trek novel (which was rejected); I’ve lived and loved for two-score years, and I plan on at least two more score, hopefully a little more.
I am a Rugged Individualist. I get my satisfaction from using my own wits to learn and grow rather than when its given to me. I hate political correctness in all forms, just as much as I despise racism, homophobia and group-think orthodoxy. Above all, I love my Country and admire it’s philosophic origins (despite its many flaws)
And for the girlies: you do not want to know me. Trust me.
About the MP3′s on This Site
There are two types of MP3 samples on this website: those edited from specific recording session and certain full songs written and performed by Billy ‘The Jack’.
Recording session samples are taken from their original mastered source, the mp3’s encoded at 128 kbps. They have not been further processed or enhanced for this website.
Billy ‘The Jack’s creative works have been encoded at 96 kbps.
Digital distribution of most of these recorded works through the I-Tunes store is in the works.
About the Design
BillyTheJack.com is managed through WordPress, utilizing an original Billy ‘The Jack’ theme, “Marquee Black.” Don’t bother looking to download it. I have decided to make it unavailable for these reasons:
- two good friends, both with fairly decent HTML and CSS skills had trouble figuring out how to use the theme, both in the design “tweakage” and the content management. It wasn’t easy for me to explain the inner workings of the theme; my mind doesn’t translate “techneese” very well, and I am not well versed in simplifying things (as you can tell if you’ve read my posts).
- As I’ve been thinking about this theme and how to implement it for general release, I have decided that I would rather not have other entertainers using the same design. Call me stingy, and I’ll agree.
There are so many better designers and coders than I am. I am an amateur designer. I shoot from the hip and rarely read the directional details about whatever I am working on. And my friends’ confusion at my unorthodox coding leads me to the conclusion that this theme unusable in the open market.
Since I have very few visitors to this site anyway, it makes no difference about the theme used in this website.
This is my own personal playground; the latch is always open and visitors are welcome any time, but the garden gate is like an overgrown, wild weevil hole hidden amidst a small ivy colored back wall in a long forgotten alley of a mostly deserted tract in the most desolate sector of Algore’s vast inter-web.
And I kinda like it that way.
