Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Here's my bio as it appears on Myspace:
In the fourth grade Mr. Jones began playing the French Horn. When he was ten he began playing guitar. Highly influenced by the Beatles at the time, he wrote his first song: "Sgt. Hatred" a ballad about a military man who gave no regard to human rights, which was later stolen and adapted into a character on the show "Venture Brothers." After a tragic pool party/show at the age of eleven his music began to shift gears. In the eight grade he began to get into pop-punk and later into hardcore and emo. In high school he formed a band with his friends called Man/External who was later renamed HasTheBoyFallen. The band eventually broke up, but Mr. Jones kept the name and used it for his solo works. He recorded an ep at Watchmen studios with his friend from HasTheBoyFallen/Man/External called "The War Inside My Brain." After a tragic car accident involving some of his closest friends he recorded the album "The World After April" named after a line from Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Lathe of Heaven." Although influenced by emo at the time, Mr. Jones never left his folk roots. He took lessons from Rochester folk-hero the late Dennis Monroe who taught him finger picking and other folk styles. His next album "Besar o no Besar" was a departure from previous work. After receiving a digital four track for a graduation present he began to get into experimentation and home recording. He also got back to his old influences, the Beatles and Pink Floyd. After entering college he took on the alias Dorian Gray after the Oscar Wilde novel. He put out many psychedelic, home recorded cassette tapes under this name, some of which include "Psychonaut", the anthemic "Metaphysical Sponge", and "The Tree of Life vol. I-IV." He later dropped the name Dorian Gray and began playing just as Mitch Jones. His most recent albums include "And then a Plank, in reason broke" under the name the Fantastic Electric Light Box and "Psalms."
In the fourth grade Mr. Jones began playing the French Horn. When he was ten he began playing guitar. Highly influenced by the Beatles at the time, he wrote his first song: "Sgt. Hatred" a ballad about a military man who gave no regard to human rights, which was later stolen and adapted into a character on the show "Venture Brothers." After a tragic pool party/show at the age of eleven his music began to shift gears. In the eight grade he began to get into pop-punk and later into hardcore and emo. In high school he formed a band with his friends called Man/External who was later renamed HasTheBoyFallen. The band eventually broke up, but Mr. Jones kept the name and used it for his solo works. He recorded an ep at Watchmen studios with his friend from HasTheBoyFallen/Man/External called "The War Inside My Brain." After a tragic car accident involving some of his closest friends he recorded the album "The World After April" named after a line from Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Lathe of Heaven." Although influenced by emo at the time, Mr. Jones never left his folk roots. He took lessons from Rochester folk-hero the late Dennis Monroe who taught him finger picking and other folk styles. His next album "Besar o no Besar" was a departure from previous work. After receiving a digital four track for a graduation present he began to get into experimentation and home recording. He also got back to his old influences, the Beatles and Pink Floyd. After entering college he took on the alias Dorian Gray after the Oscar Wilde novel. He put out many psychedelic, home recorded cassette tapes under this name, some of which include "Psychonaut", the anthemic "Metaphysical Sponge", and "The Tree of Life vol. I-IV." He later dropped the name Dorian Gray and began playing just as Mitch Jones. His most recent albums include "And then a Plank, in reason broke" under the name the Fantastic Electric Light Box and "Psalms."
got two shows coming up at top secret underground locations (no pigs!):
02/20/2009 08:00 PM - Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Laboratory
Rochester, New York 14607
US
Cost:free
Description:Me and Oliver/Reeg and Graham
02/15/2009 08:00 PM - the Right Now
Rochester, New York 14607
US
Cost:free
Description:with Forgotten Figures Falling Together Between Two Twigs and one other that I can’t remember the name
02/20/2009 08:00 PM - Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Laboratory
Rochester, New York 14607
US
Cost:free
Description:Me and Oliver/Reeg and Graham
02/15/2009 08:00 PM - the Right Now
Rochester, New York 14607
US
Cost:free
Description:with Forgotten Figures Falling Together Between Two Twigs and one other that I can’t remember the name