12/24/2023 0 Comments Jet set go band![]() It’s bigger and more convenient than some of the other venues that were doing pre-shows. You guys aren’t doing this M3 pre-show, what if we put this thing together I was calling MB4, which was the show before the show and compete with the other pre-shows at his venue. I went out and booked Every Mother’s Nightmare, and I put us as a package, and went to Brian at Fish Head Cantina and said, I got this idea. We do this show that was the second of this thing called MB4, which is a M3 pre show. ![]() There were a couple things I did from a branding point of view at the beginning. Thankfully there were a couple that helped us find spots for our early shows, and that was it. We put together a short list and I went out to all the promoters that I knew from the 23RainyDays days to see who was still working. If we were to play with bands, who did we want to play with? We literally wrote them all down. What we ended up doing was putting together a bucket list of all the bands we wanted to play with. 23RainyDays had broken me of that concept and if we’re gaining to do it, I want to do fun things. Basically I said, I’m not interested in doing this for a job. So when we started getting this thing together, there were a couple of rules that we put into place. IKM: In 23RainyDays we had created a massive network of folks that we worked with. It seems like every time I check in on your social media, you’re heading to LA to open for the likes of LA Guns or sharing the bill with hard rock luminaries touring through the DMV. You have that same quality to your voice.ĪR. There are certain singers, for instance when you hear Steven Tyler, you know it’s Steven Tyler. It just kind of started off a whim.ĪR: Vocally you have a very unique voice. So we settled not looking for a guitar player, and that was actually a humungous leap forward for us. Not that I’m some great singer, we just couldn’t find anybody with the vibe. After we had recorded the record and started rehearsing, it was clear that we weren’t going to find someone that could do what we wanted to do. ![]() At some point I was like, “I don’t want to sing this, ‘cause I really didn’t want to sing in a band.” I had gotten back into just being a guitar player. The EP was basically all recorded by the two of us. I was like, “I’m really not into doing that.” For whatever reason he got me at the right moment and I was like, “OK, let me see what I can do from the demo side and if that works let’s see what we can put together.” I demoed all six songs that are on the EP, and we put the EP out three months later. He’d been at me forever to jump back into the music we had listened to as kids, which was on the Hard Rock side. I did a lot of design work for him for his business. He was in a band called Hollow Boy out of Baltimore. Jeff and I had kept in touch since the 23RainyDays era. A drummer friend of mine named Jeff reached out to me. I left that band and formed Big Paper Airplanes, then left playing in bands all together for a very long time. It became this thing that went on for 10 years. My drummer Eric that I played with in the 90’s got in touch with me in the early 2000’s and said “hey let’s form a band like we did in the 90’s,” and I was like “ok cool.” It wasn’t popular at the time so we just started writing bunch of songs that were very Cure influenced, and had a good time doing it. I formed 23RainyDays much in the same conditions that I formed this band. I was huge Smiths and Cure fan, so in the early 90’s I was listening to a lot more Cure than I was listening to Motley Crue, which in and of itself sounds like an odd hybrid of music taste, but it’s just what I was listening to at the time. I did the whole Nikki Size hair, and like a lot of people that were my age were also Alternative music fans. IKM: When I was 16 to 21-ish I was knee deep in Heavy Metal and mostly Glam, I was a huge Glam fan. Is American Jetset closer to your musical roots than say 23RainyDays was? The band has just finished up recording their second release with producer Scott Spelbring and is preparing for their first live show of the year and as luck would have it, their CD release show, with Charm City Devils this month in Baltimore at the Frozen Harbor Festival.ĪR: American Jetset is quite different from your past musical projects. ![]() I had the opportunity and distinct pleasure to sit down with singer/songwriter and former 23RainyDays frontman Ian Kaine MacGregor to talk about his newest musical endeavor, American Jetset.
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