fox tv's nepatoday.com review and interview
PLAINS, Pa. (NEPAtoday.com ) - Jay Morgans has grown both as a man and as an musician. While other artists pack in their bags for careers outside their hearts and dreams, Morgans holds fast and gives the world another chance.
Listening to The Morgans Project: 4 Track Demos, it's hard to imagine he grew up on angry, gritty punk rock anthems. You're more likely to think of the four piece art band hailing from Andy Warhol's Factory The Velvet Underground, instead of the Dead Kennedys, but every musician needs a place to start, a place to find where they belong.
Emotions set to words and poetry set to music, 4 Track Demos is the creative, all original music of one local native, Jay Morgans..
Why music, why not baseball, art or teaching?
Morgans: I needed to do something and it just happened to come out that way.
Let's say I've never see you perform, how would you describe your sound to me?
Morgans: The Music, it's stripped down bare and sparse. I'm not really sure if it's supposed to be that way or if it happened that way. It's like poetry, but with no certain form, the words they make you feel like at times you just want to get away.
Is The Morgans Project now a solo act?
Morgans: Even though my brother moved to Philadelphia, I still say we all the time, it's like I'm talking about my other personalities ... but for now it's me.
Where do you find inspiration from?
Morgans: Life in general, everything is a song waiting to happen. Like Denny's, 18 things may have happened by the time I leave and each one can be a song, whether or not it works, that's a different story. Musician's there's Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground. I grew up on three cord punk rock. Recently, Sublime and Blind Melon, bands I never thought I would like, as much as I did.
So how long have you been doing this?
Morgans: Well then I'd be telling you how old I really am... 12 years. I've been in a couple of different bands, but being on my own, doing something by myself, straight from thought to voice, it's all good.
Looking down the road, would you say no to fame?
Morgans: Probably saying that cheapens anyone you might have touched along the way, but I can't deny that having fame wouldn't upset me. I've gotten farther than I ever thought I would be and it's such a blessing. I'm not trying to change the world or anyone else with my music. In the end it doesn't matter, I can always go back to the factory, I'd still be doing something. It's frustrating and there's no denying that.
- Lee Ann Orsheski
Listening to The Morgans Project: 4 Track Demos, it's hard to imagine he grew up on angry, gritty punk rock anthems. You're more likely to think of the four piece art band hailing from Andy Warhol's Factory The Velvet Underground, instead of the Dead Kennedys, but every musician needs a place to start, a place to find where they belong.
Emotions set to words and poetry set to music, 4 Track Demos is the creative, all original music of one local native, Jay Morgans..
Why music, why not baseball, art or teaching?
Morgans: I needed to do something and it just happened to come out that way.
Let's say I've never see you perform, how would you describe your sound to me?
Morgans: The Music, it's stripped down bare and sparse. I'm not really sure if it's supposed to be that way or if it happened that way. It's like poetry, but with no certain form, the words they make you feel like at times you just want to get away.
Is The Morgans Project now a solo act?
Morgans: Even though my brother moved to Philadelphia, I still say we all the time, it's like I'm talking about my other personalities ... but for now it's me.
Where do you find inspiration from?
Morgans: Life in general, everything is a song waiting to happen. Like Denny's, 18 things may have happened by the time I leave and each one can be a song, whether or not it works, that's a different story. Musician's there's Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground. I grew up on three cord punk rock. Recently, Sublime and Blind Melon, bands I never thought I would like, as much as I did.
So how long have you been doing this?
Morgans: Well then I'd be telling you how old I really am... 12 years. I've been in a couple of different bands, but being on my own, doing something by myself, straight from thought to voice, it's all good.
Looking down the road, would you say no to fame?
Morgans: Probably saying that cheapens anyone you might have touched along the way, but I can't deny that having fame wouldn't upset me. I've gotten farther than I ever thought I would be and it's such a blessing. I'm not trying to change the world or anyone else with my music. In the end it doesn't matter, I can always go back to the factory, I'd still be doing something. It's frustrating and there's no denying that.
- Lee Ann Orsheski
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