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MP3 J Biddy and the Crossfire Inferno - Restless
12 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Modern Rock, ROCK: Hard Rock
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J BIDDY BIO
J Biddy and the Crossfire Inferno combines a rhythmic guitar, thunderous drums and jabbing bass with vocals that project both broken lullaby and dirty rock ‘n’ roll in seamless fashion.
J Biddy (Jay Basiner) is the front man. He’s the singer, guitar and piano player and songwriter. He’s also one of the hardest working musicians in the Portland area and beyond. Aside from performing at least three times a week, he has an astonishing live energy, so much so that it is routine for him to extend shows up to four or five hours. Most recently he did a solo performance that lasted 12 straight hours.
Coming from a very musical family with his father a full time musician of over 50 years, Jay had every opportunity to hone in on his hereditary musical skills. He began with the violin and piano, giving up the former for something more edgy and loud—the drums, an instrument which he studied for the next 15 years of his life.
Wanting to be able to sing and write songs, Jay made the switch over to guitar in 1999 and began doing just that and starting bands immediately. He moved to Portland, Maine in 2004 and less than two months later secured himself a weekly Friday night gig playing solo in one of Portland’s most popular clubs, Bull Feeney’s. Because of the amount of material he knew by heart, the solo shows became more of a request night where patrons would call off a tune and he would bust into it as easily as scratching your head.
It didn’t take long until J Biddy was a staple at Bull Feeney’s, and when the popular local rock band One, Two Many needed a singer and rhythm guitar player, he was the first one they called. It wasn’t long after J Biddy joined One, Two Many that the band secured a treasured gig at Bull Feeney’s playing every Thursday night, a gig they still maintain on top of Jay’s own solo gigs.
Even though he was playing out several times a week with either his solo act or with One, Two Many, the two projects weren’t allowing him to perform some of his favorite music—his own.
A side project that was billed as The J Biddy Band that was performing monthly at the Bramhall Pub in Portland included One, Two Many and Get Band drummer Seth Kearns and longtime friend and musical colleague Dave Patterson on bass. The band, however, was just a slightly different version of Jay’s other two projects. He soon changed the name of the band, using a lyric of one of his own songs to J Biddy and the Crossfire Inferno. For this project his original music would be paramount.
In March of 2006, J Biddy and the Crossfire Inferno began recording what would be their debut album “Restless,” with Jay funding the entire project on his own on a musician’s salary. Six months and $6000 later, “Restless” was complete and included 12 original songs by all written by J Biddy.
The album gives generously great hooks, clever and honest lyrics and contagious rhythms. All together the sound is authentically vintage in it’s execution of rock ‘n’ roll. Where traces of The Who and Nirvana can’t be heard, there is hints of Springsteen and Lennon.
There is aggressive punk in “East Coast Rebel,” “Twenty-four” and the high-octane title track “Restless.” There’s down-home bluesy/country storytelling found in “The Fisherman,” “What A Blue Man Can Do” and “Tell Me, Is There Something Wrong.” And like all good rock albums, there are straight up the middle pop songs like “Black to White” and “I Wanna Be On Television.”
Now Jay is looking to make a real scene. The groundwork has been laid and his exposure is prime. It will be hard work, but shouldn’t faze one of the hardest working musicians in Portland.
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