On this page, just myself, I sort of just played everything.
However, I am in the Ernie Lewis Band, this music isn't a reflection of that at all. I think music is the greatest form of communication.
Influences
The Monkees, Lemon Pipers, Gene Simmons, Black Sabbath, John paul Jones, Patty Loveless, mark Chestnut,Mike Snodgrass,Every Mother’s Son, Minutemen, Pete Anderson, Beatles, Buck Owens, Stones, Screaming Trees, John Fogerty, Faron Young, Merle Haggard, AC/DC, Joe Walsh, Cream, Hendrix, Gary Moore, Meat Puppets, Elton John, Pierre Trudeau, RHCP, Nirvana, Don Rich, Sloan, Psychadelic music of the 60’s, straight up honky tonk in the raw from of Ray Price, Brian Dellinger, Elmo Kirkwood, Brian Boyer, Breakfastime, Mark McPheeters, Bill Garrett, Dave Little, Jamie Hickson, Ken Simpson, Aaron Duncan, John Risinger, Tommy Hastings, Brenda Morley Foster, God, $.99 Taco Bell menu. Mark Lanegan, Sam and Dave, Ramones, WHAM!, Johnny Falstaff, Rivers Black and Current, Woodlands, Squirells, Groundhogs, Buck Futts, Soundgarden, Emmit Otter’s Jug Band, Hank WIlliams Jr (Yes, he’s good fuckers quit laughing), Jerry Foster Sr. , Marge Foster, Jessica Foster, Porter Wagner, Grandma Fuller (The most talented person I ever met!!! I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU EVERY SINGLE MINUTE OF THE DAY. LIFE JUST ISN’T AS HAPPY WITHOUT YOU)
Sounds Like
A guy playing right- handed strung instruments, left-handed.
My name is Jerry, I make music with the Ernie Lewis band. We're a very powerful trio of musicians who have dedicated more years, gigs, road travel between us than a lot of five piece outfits! We combine originals with covers that exemplify hard work, dignity, and shitloads of integrity! Our live shows are powerful, free of shitty hair metal and pretty boy fluff. Simply put, we're in this to make music, not idols of ourselves, nor to be this week's flash in the pan cock wavers. Our egos are firmly in check with an emphasis on fun, and professionalism, while bringing you songs that you simply do not hear other bands performing tirelessly. We're ever grateful for our fanbase, and completely adore YOU the audience who has shown much love to us over the past year! We will never be unapproachable to a fan, nor musical peer, as we have made a promise to unite with the other local acts in this area for the betterment of our musical community! For this, we also have been extremely blessed with much respect from other local bands that we have had the honor of sharing a bill with! We too respect each of them, hey, that's what it's about!
You won't see us posing and trying to act like MTV stars at live shows, but you will get some of the most dedicated, high energy musicianship that three guys who have all been performing since they were pre-teens, can give! Weed out the posers, and we'll still be standing baby! See you at the gigs!!!!! We love you!!!!!!!!!!!! ------ Jerry ELB
i would love to but i did that last week! lol! i missed you too! i apologize for being an ass! there it is! my public apology! THE ERNIE LEWIS BAND DOESN'T SUCK!!!!!
hey you just thought id send ya a quick comment to say hey and love yaz! you know you can talk to me anytime, i mean hell we already talk about everything under the sun at work anyways haha...just know im here for yaz!!!
I hope you have a BETTER THAN GREAT DAY Jerry! I hope you win the lottery, find a $20 in the laundry and all that good unexpected fun stuff to make you feel better :) lol.
let me tell ya somethin' brother!your on!!watch out cause i got michael hayes and the free birds in my corner,jyd in my spirit,tommy wild fire rich on the horn,and playboy buddy rose pumpin' me up from here to oblivian!!!!1 its a rage in the cage!!!!
Black Randy: ok, so you found the illegal phone conversation that he taped between myself and him, around 1979, discussing the private info about me that he so freely shared on Richard Meltzer's radio show. He quite literally put me in a very public position of being either busted, killed or ripped off (thank G-d, only the last happened -- many times, and never pleasant).
Well, everything you need to know about Black Randy and I are on that tape. (there's more, but it's private.) He was a character! Can't say that I miss him! The rotten little creep. Brilliant, but so twisted. Really enjoyed sticking knives into people's backs. But punk was then, and now, full of assholes like him. Just few as entertaining.
I can think of a few of the living that I would not miss when they join him in hell. Whatever, we all have our history, us truly early LA punks. Life is all about accepting what is and moving on.
When you listen to the beginning of "Sperm Bank Baby," and he says "Jenny Stern is gonna take all our photos. She likes that kind of thing." He is talking about me, but didn't know I changed my name to Jenny Lens around the time he recorded that song.
What awesome pix of Black Randy? I have two shots in my book, "Punk Pioneers." What more do you want from me, blood?? Believer it or not, I have other interests besides early punk! Raw foods, yoga, fresh air, reading, old movies. Black Randy is dead.
sweet man.actually thar photo is adrian our bass players other band all time high and plays that ric .van plays a couple different axes. he has a gibson flying v and an sg.right now he likes my back up guitar which is a gibson marador.i have a bullet strat which awesome.but it was a 100 buck one so it doesn't stand up live.i plan to get a sweet strat soon.what do you suggest.also you ever played jazz masters.
