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Little Jack singing Baby by Justin Bieber jzerby 105 views :)
White Christmas jzerby 1,062 views A little song for the season
The creation of a song (subconscious lyrics & melodies) jzerby 724 views Often times when I feel in the song makin mood, i'll pick up my guitar and play a few chords, and sing over it with words that make no sense. It's funny because when you ju...
Sweet Pea jzerby 2,034 views My favorite Amos Lee song. Click the link below to buy my album: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=79615069
Rehearsal Vocal (Practice) jzerby 2,102 views Today I went to Funkadelic Studios on 26th street and took an hour or so just to get my voice ready for recording. I didnt want to play guitar, but rather work on how I wan...
The Zerby Household jzerby 883 views http://www.jackzerby.com Just a typical night at home, everyone singing obnoxiously. Yo have to scream to get heard, so Marisa doesn't have a chance, haha.
Where I recorded 45 Circle Drive (the broom closet) jzerby 493 views Here's a quick video of the house I grew up in. This is also the house where I wrote and recorded the album 45 Circle Drive, in the little closet downstairs. My mom thought...
Stage 1: Recording reference tracks jzerby 780 views This part of the process involves laying down each guitar track to a click track. A click track is just a beeping noise that keeps me on beat. I spent 5 hours in a very sma...
New Website!!! jzerby 467 views http://www.jackzerby.com Hey guys, I'd like to welcome you to the new jackzerby.com. I've been secretly working on this for about a year now and am finally revealing all...
Making the Website: The Video jzerby 414 views http://www.jackzerby.com Here's how we shot the video for the top video on the new site. My long-time friend Matt Anderson shot the video for it and did a great job. Thi...

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Jan 9, 2012

Date Joined

Mar 14, 2006

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make music because it's in me. I'm not sure that I would say I love making music...I would say that it just comes out; most of the time when I'm not even consciously thinking about it..

It all started at 10 years old when I got my first Michael Jackson tape, Bad. I remember listening to it over and over on the plane to Florida for a family vacation, and was blown away by how tight and rhythmic it was. I tend to be a perfectionist, so his music struck a chord instantly by how intricate it was, but yet still had a soulfulness that moved me. I had the sweetest Aiwa walkman with the the most uncomfortable headphones ever made.

In high school I started my first band with my good friends Ryan (bass) and Jeremiah (guitar). We played mostly Metallica covers and the occasional original-yet-awfully-similar-to-metallica song. We jammed for various girls around the neighborhood, but for some reason they would rather have heard New Kids on the Block covers. Not cool.

Soon after that, Ryan and I joined forces with a punk/rock/ska band called the Kamikaze Pilots. We toured all over Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Playing to huge crowds of 15-20 people, and rocking every single one of them. I remember arriving at a large college gig thinking we were going to play on the main stage, but were later told that we would be playing in the rec room where the karaoke guy was about to finish up his set. In the middle of our awesome set, a guy playing Smokey the Bear walked in with a guide, took one look at us, gave a "these guys are terrible" swat at the air, and quickly turned around. We had been dissed by Smokey.

Then it was time to leave it all behind for college and real life. I sold my Yamaha Stage Custom Blue drum-set (my second love) to buy a guitar to bring with me to college. I started as all college acoustic players do...Dave Matthews, Three Doors Down, Matchbox 20, Backstreet Boys (what? woops). I wrote my first song called "Arms", and was hooked on writing my own stuff.

I'm not making music to get a record deal, to get on radio, or to be on American Idol. When I'm old and grey, one of the many things I hope to look back on is the legacy of music that I will be leaving.

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