Lars Engstrom played the bass and Chris Nienhuis covered the drums. "In Friends of Durrutti I played guitar and sang a few songs, as well as background vocals." FOD also gave Jon the opportunity to play guitar alongside his younger brother, Josh.
The next group Jon was in was called Friends of Durrutti, named by lead singer Jeff Danielski, a close friend and band mate from Glass Bead Game. Without all three of us involved, it just wasn't the same band." "Ultimately, Shut was really about Nick, Mike and me. The remaining Shut members briefly continued with drummer Bill Hoeks. My tastes were not quite as heavy." After gaining some success, Shut lost Varano to the well-established ska group, Mustard Plug. "In Shut I played with (former GBG drummer) Nick Varano and bassist Mike Peterson, who were very Tool/Nirvana/Primus-influenced. A ton of people showed up to hear us and, athough we sucked and only knew about four songs, I was totally hooked on the experience."Įventually Jon picked up the guitar and formed another band called Shut, playing guitar and singing lead. "Glass Bead Game's first show was in my parents' basement one night while they were out of town. Since I couldn't play any instruments at the time, I sang and wrote lyrics." GBG was influenced by U2, Minor Threat, and Green Day, bands they tried to cover live, with limited success. "In high school some friends and I formed a band called Glass Bead Game. Soon he found himself behind the microphone. Thank you, Beasties!"Īs a teenage skateboarder, Jon discovered punk rock groups like The Clash, Fugazi, and Descendents. "I was the only white boy in my neighborhood, so my first records were by Run DMC, Michael Jackson, and the Beastie Boys, who were solely responsible for me being accepted by my neighborhood friends. Raymond songs While growing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jon Lee listened to a variety of music. I like lil freak and daddys home and she dont know. Great CD he shows alot of emotion on the cd yea the beats might not be like the old usher but you should def listen to lyrics. i would have to say that this is a little bit of a disappointment for him after being gone for 2 years !!!!!!!!!!!! This album is ok, the beats are nothing of the of usher but the lyrics are good. I heard alot about Ushers "Raymond bs Raymond" album that this is gonna be a very sucessful album By Usher himself. He need to step his game up because he starting to fall off. Its better than HERE I STAND by it could have been better. Raymond buy CD music Usher is my man 100% mkay? This CD is the BOMB DIGITY!!!!! But. So don't come to this thinking you'll get the inside scoop on a celebrity divorce, but as a soundtrack to rampancy in general, it's hard to beat.Raymond v. It's pitched somewhere between thrillingly seedy and downright creepy, depending on your stomach for singers boasting about having a "menage-ay" with a gaggle of girls. Lil' Freak goes a smidge darker, Ush leering at a hot girl in a club about the sheer magnitude of his pulling power, over a sped-up Stevie Wonder sample (Livin' for the City, since you ask).
Mars vs Venus even embarks on an extended metaphor in which Usher's bedroom is its own solar system, complete with a perfect seaside postcard reference to the Big Bang. We're on far more familiar slow jam territory with There Goes My Baby, a sumptuous deep-pile carpet of seductive song, and Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home), which impressively manages to rhyme "flexing" with "sexing". It probably wouldn't work as legal defence. Guilty is a song to the judge at the divorce hearing. The former is an impassioned apology from an unfaithful (and famous) husband to his long-suffering wife, the latter a slightly different tale in which the husband has tried as hard as he can, but admits the marriage is doomed. In fact, Foolin' Around, Guilty and Papers are the only songs to directly address the situation, and even then they're done with a story-teller's eye. Judging from the title, this should be a similar affair to Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear, an album which soundtracks the messy end to a high-profile marriage, with Usher lobbing bitter-bombs at his ex, Tameka Foster.īut Usher is also every inch the modern businessman, and his business largely concerns singing about making love with girls, which he does here, a lot: divorce or no divorce.