G. Love Post - Hotlanta in Haze

[elephantus]

We had a good night last night in North Carolina. I'm just waking up in the ATL. Coming here is cool because a lot of my musical family is from these parts. That family started back in 1993 when I first met my Brother Allen Jasper Thomas. Jasper and I became fast friends in Boston after we met at a show and I found out he was an MC. We were playing around the scene, just getting our feet wet and Jasper was coming around a lot and sitting in. I asked him if he could change a guitar string (which I would break at least a couple a night). I lent him this old Silvertone guitar (he renamed her "Rusted Jenny") to learn how to change strings. He not only learned to change the strings but he developed a very original and unique playing technique. Basically, he came back two weeks later playing all of these amazing Hip Hop songs that he was writing. With his long dreads, inspired conscious lyrics and convicted voice he was an amazing stage presence. In no time at all he formed his band Jasper and the Prodigal Sons and our scene was started. Both bands were tearing up Boston and Cambridge. Jasper and I wrote "This Ain't Living" on a late summer day in Harvard Yards. Less than a year later we had a record deal with Epic. Jas got his with Geffen the following year.

My life is amazing and everyday I give thanks for it. That year in 1993 was maybe the most golden time of my life. Since then things have been a bit rocky for Jasper but he continues to make music. In fact he is the rapper on Lemonade's "Thanks and Praise" a remake of his original cut. Through Jasper I've met a lot of amazing talent from ATL and Augusta, Ga (where Jas is from). We've been working on this new joint "That's Real" a song we made on the bus after the last Atlanta show (check it out on youtube). This song was written in part by my friend Taranji another musical talent from the South. Needless to say, there will be a lot of family in the house tonight and I will tear the roof off the Tabernacle!

Peace in the Middle East

G

[sway2sway]

why don't ya sign jasper onto philadelphonic, or maybe pull some strings over at the brushfire camp, or with the stoopid crew? it's all who ya know, right? ;)

babylon is falling is one of my favorite songs lately.

(since I can't post a song, I'll post you some of the lyrics, not necessarily correct and not necessarily without gaps, and definately not the whole song. the mark of a thorough woman with good intentions)

[another day, another dollar is this life of mine, in Babylon, cause if i don't i'll end up doin' time.
in the middle of babylon i go, in the heart of the wickedness, i really don't want my kids to be seen in this.
i go and punch the clock with a quickness, cause i'm on a mission, i'm stacked up with dishes, whilst my boss be trippin' on a brother, cause i'm playing my natural.
they be smilin, but i know that they hate, so i do my job, i go by they rules, i play it cool for a paycheck, but i won't be no fool, it's simple, it's plain, and it's cool/cruel?
when you know that jah rules, and people around you think that they playing you smooth, but they ain't so i stop them in the middle of their game, and they think that i'm rude, but i'm just bein' straight up.
i'm a man, just like you, don't try to take that from me.
i know that you're the boss, sir, but before i'm a dishwaher, i was a man, first.
when you got a free mind, they don't like that, nah.
they rather hold and control, so you don't talk back, but with jah on my side, whom should i fear.
i walk with my head up high

babylon is falling (don't worry)
babylon is fallin (don't worry)]

[sway2sway]

I just pulled out this yellow carboard survey outta my jasper cd, no postage necessary if mailed in the united states. think they still want it, hah ha.

but listen, it seems they have noble intentions

'Thank you for purchsing Jasper &the Prodigal Suns. You obvviously have very eclectic taste in music. This is a very special relaease for Geffen because Jasper &the Prodigal Suns have created a sound we believe defies classification and categories. We are very interested to know what you think of this disc and would appreciate your input.


I fuckin love it and you missed the boat Geffen, you had a chance to be part of music that has a purpose greater than the $ and spreading it would have been it's own reward

all melodramtic when I'm up flying on the carpet, huh? that's cause it looks different and you're afraid if you don't impassion and embolden it even beyond what it physically is, that those not in the know, will not even grasp the half of it. capiche?