A Look Back...

Local legend has it that an albino boy was playing on some railroad tracks and was killed by a train. So now when you park your car on the road that crosses the tracks, your car rolls uphill towards the tracks. They say it's the ghost of Albino Boy pushing your car towards the tracks.

On October 20, 1994, Jason, Harry, and Darrin ventured to investigate this urban legend. With camcorder in hand, they parked the car and sure enough the car rolled towards the tracks. But skeptics Jason and Harry were conducting an experiment to prove the road sloped downwards towards the tracks and that the road sloping downwards away from the tracks was an optical illusion when a car pulled up to them, the back door opened, and a cranky old Irish man stepped out and said to them "The best thing you guys can do is get your [donkey] out of here!" Jason and Harry made their wise guy responses and it soon turned into a heated conversation. Finally the conflict came to a head when it nearly came to fisticuffs between the Irish fellow and Jason. The best part was all of this was on video!

The video was shown to most of their friends and family and was an instant classic. Jason sent the audio of the incident from the video tape to the morning show on a local radio station who had mentioned the Albino Boy urban legend. The station enjoyed the audio so much they played it on air with their commentary. It wasn't long after that Jason recorded the "Albino Boy" song using sound bites taken from the video tape. Below is the advertisement he faxed to the radio station the day before he dropped off the tape of the song.

Unfortunately the song was never played on the radio. More than a year later he recorded another version called "Albino Boy (Dance Mix)" which was more techno/dance than the original song.

To this day the Albino Boy incident is talked about and often re-enacted where Jason and Harry work. The incident and both songs will probably live forever.

Update
Click here to visit the Albino Boy website. It has the entire story and many files to read and listen to. Enjoy!

A Look Back...

In 1995, Jason was part of a team of several people who started a project that pooled their individual talents to come up with something creative, whether that be something audio, visual, or in print. Jason's contribution to the group was his music/audio skills.

To announce the team's start-up, a couple of members of the group put together the first issue of the Timely Creative newsletter that would have articles written by team members and highlight projects they were working on. Above is the front cover of issue #1. It was a 4-page issue basically calling all members together for their first meeting to decide which direction they were going to go.

One of the team's first proposed projects was a commercial for a local company. A storyboard and rough script were created but the team fell apart before it could be completed. And this was the only issue of the newsletter completed.

On the cover of the newsletter, above the word SUPERTRAMP, is a field that says "Jason's new release." This was referring to the recently released NueroMud album Nine Days Wonder. This was one of the few instances of advertising for a Metal XOR Studio album.

The name of the team and the newsletter was Timely Creative. The member of the group that had the video production studio in his home has since moved to California and continues to do work under that same name. The rest of the group have been scattered across the country.

A Look Back...

The year was 1995. One of Jason's co-workers had a wife who worked in the medical field. She had come up a new technique for a specific type of surgery. To demonstrate the technique, she had a video made of her "operating" on the body of a dead pig. It was a documentary that needed background music.

So Jason was approached and asked if he could record some music that could be used in the video. He recorded a piece of music which he jokingly titled "Bacon" and took it to work. The music was fine, but not for watching a surgical technique. Even though his music was not used, he was paid a small fee for his effort.

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In 1994, one of Jason's co-workers (not from his Studio career but from his secular, non-music job) said his wife's place of employment was creating a new promotional video to send out across the country to promote their carnival supplies and festival games. The name of the company was Lefton Productions and soon Mr. Lefton called Jason and asked for a sample of music. A piece was recorded and Mr. Lefton liked it, so a contract was drafted and signed by both parties that stated all rights of Jason's Lefton song was turned over to Lefton. . . for a mere $60. But this was a monumental moment, it was the first time the Studio had made money off of its music.

The Studio still has a copy of the promotional tape that was sent to many companies and clients across the country.