Friends, I hope you are doing well. I’ve written up an advertisement on
Facebook. I did this because the show is happening at the famed Railway Club
which is now rebranded as “Railway Stage and Beer Cafe.” It’s the
Same place since 1932. This show for my band, Jared and the Social Worker, will
be a release of our first single from our Debut EP “Parade on Fire”.
You may think to yourself, “Jared, why are you doing this, why are you acting
like a young man when you are, in fact, becoming an old one? Doing the things
that young men do, wasting time, spending energy that you are running out of?”
This my friends is a
good set of observations.
Here is what I am:
I am 39, husband of a beautiful and supportive wife for 19 years. I own and run
a successful IT consulting business that has taken 15 years to gain a modicum
of success. I’m a lover of music. I’ve been writing poetry since I was 13. This
is when my mom and dad told me that my mom was going to die from AIDS. I’ve been
playing guitar (passionately and terribly) every week since I was 15.
I’m also a survivor of the kind of childhood abuse that they make movies about.
The kind of movie, that no matter the happy ending, no matter the 10 years of
counseling, lawyers, police, court cases and testimonies, and court sentences,
that you never feel resolution for. The kind that leaves a darkness that only
truth and light can drag into oblivion. The one thing that left me intact as I
passed through this hell was the love of an incredible family. They knew my
worth, knew my strength and knew my path.
My success has been measured. Any amount of success I have is from that love
that couldn’t protect me from the horrible things of my past but could hold me
tightly while my soul felt like it was being torn apart.
So every horrible
story you’ve seen on tv or on film, I have passed through that. It didn’t end
my life and I didn’t give up the challenge that is adversity. Even though that
small, violent voice said I should.
You may feel like saying right now “Jared, why are you telling me this horrible story?” or “Why are you trying to make me feel this way?”
What I’m actually
doing is sharing my story and sharing my reasons for why I started a band
called Jared and the Social Worker.
This band is not Jared and the Happy Story Tellers, Jared and the Easy
Memories, Jared and the Happy Coloured Rainbow Unicorn Dancers (which was an
original theoretical title we practiced with). After countless practices and
rehearsals and before our first show our band name still took 6 months to
create.
This band is all about bad things happening to good people. And those good
people wanting to stay good and stay on that right course regardless of the
previous examples that came before.
This band has given me a direction to help make sense of my childhood.
And provided an outlet to talk to others who didn’t have it as good as I did,
those that weren’t made whole.
I know every band in the world thinks that their music is amazing. I
know this. Just as I know that my music may not fit everyone’s taste. But we’ve
written outstanding rock tunes, peppered with punk ballads and dash of
romance.
You are going to love something from this album.
On our upcoming album “Parade on Fire”, our single “Young Savages” will
be available on all streaming and downloading platforms. This song is rock and
Roll at it’s finest. A simple, anthemic chorus and a catchy bridge that really
should be played nice and loud.
So we have a life story, a show on March 2nd, and we have a single coming out.
You are getting this message, so you know why you are seeing what you
are seeing in your Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, quora, Mewe, and other such
feeds. We are giving this effort every possible chance to find success. We are
advertising, posting without being spammy, and doing what we can to not be
weird or rude and respecting other’s space and time.
My friends thank you for reading. Thank you for supporting and not blocking us over the last 3 years.
For details, check out our secure site at Https://www.jaredandthesocialworker.com. Here you can purchase some tshirts, other music from my past project, named after my beautiful late step-father “Jared Fowler” band.
You can sign up for a newsletter type thing in your email to stay directly up to date on things. We are trying to find success in a dying industry and genre of music that almost no one listens to. I wouldn’t trade any of our tunes for the inspiration from someone I am not connected with.
If you are around the Valley, come out to the Railway Show on March 2nd. It’s going to be a show stopper. We are so stoked, and our
promoters are stoked to see how well our turnout can be. This is the kind of
show, we need absolutely everyone to show up for. This is the kind of show, the
takes JATSworker to the next level. So
you have a simple choice, encourage our groupthink delusion, or silently watch
a train wreck of success.
Our Facebook March 2nd Event page is here https://www.facebook.com/events/291616064887504/
Our Facebook page is also here https://www.facebook.com/JATSWorker/
I love you friend, Thanks for reading. Thank you for not blocking, sorry if you do.
January 25, 2019 /