Jay (yokedevils)
SPB: What brought you back after a hiatus from making music?
Jay: I never really stopped making music. Over the years I’ve been stockpiling everything from small riffs and weird scale runs to “feedback ideas” and full songs. I just haven’t been doing so publicly or with a band. Life got busy and different things took priority for me for a long time.
I’m one of those people that suffers with option paralysis. I have so many ideas in my head and so many directions I want to go with music that I end up standing still at the starting line. On top of that I’m kind of a super introvert, and that doesn’t help with the ‘blind dating’ aspect of finding people to play with. I kind of got in my own way for a long time. But when I realized that I had all the tools and the capabilities to do it on my own with drum programming and pedal magic, I decided it was time to play out again. Self-confidence. Determination. A newfound drive and passion for the output I’m creating. That’s all the good shit that ‘brought me back!’
I don’t consider yokedevils a solo project or a one-man band, because I fully intend to expand with other players eventually. But for now, in this first year of releasing music again, I’m having a blast doing it this way and I’m not done yet. I’m just getting started!
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