First off, let me share my YouTube Video of my music, it'll give you the idea of what I really do.
So click this and hear some badass music: https://youtu.be/jZ7XsEEZYaQ
I was born as J. Michael Piper in L.A. California and I am an Artist/Musician/Creator and besides creating art which I've always done as a hobby, I've been a drummer for about 40 years until my accident which took 70% use of my right arm thus forcing me to retire my career. That almost killed me but then soon after that my mother passes away. Soon after that I lose my daughter back to her mother which hurtles another wrench into my machine. Another reason to want to die but I moved on...but then at the height of my, I guess I'll say depression, my girlfriend of 21 years has a fatal seizure and dies. My life as I'm looking at it has been filled with nothing but tragedy and bad luck, so it goes on for me to say I stopped believing in God, which was one of the great things I did because I feel like I was free and a huge weight disappeared from my back. It was then I thought there's nothing left for me so I lock myself in my studio with suicide weighing heavily on me. I contemplated about the music industry, of what I've done and then was robbed of, meaning all the bands in my life I played with over a 40 year haul, none of that music was mine. I was just the drummer. That really made me feel like the ultimate failure. But while I stayed locked in my studio I thought about all the people that told me straight out that they loved my playing and that they thought I was the best drummer they ever saw and said they were thrilled to have seen me before I was to become famous and blah blah blah. Yes all that made me feel good but it did nothing for me. No great comment ever bought me dinner or paid a bill. So while I decided not to kill myself, I decided to go full bore into the world and become a monster. My arm didn't work too good but my hands were fine so because I still had the "itch" to play music I thought, what could I learn to play that I could play that would keep me occupied. I thought back to when I was a kid learning to play the violin and my teacher telling my parents I was a prodigy. So I made up my mind and went and bought an acoustic guitar and taught myself how to play it. I couldn't play it the standard way because my right arm didn't work but I figured out a way to hold it where I could play it. And over the 6 years I devoted into staying in my studio, I got to be a good guitarist and then a woman who I had never met, but who had followed me somehow found my phone number somewhere and she called me one day and told me that I don't know her, but she was always impressed with me as a person and a true artist. She made me feel good listening to her talk about me and the shows she heard and saw me play. I found out she lived somewhere in Kansas and her husband was a guy that was in my high school graduating class and she was 6 grades behind me. Through our conversation I mentioned that I saw a beautiful Jackson guitar I thought about buying because it was on sale and that's the only way I could afford it, blah blah blah. Well four days later there was a knock on my door and Federal Express had a package for me, a big box. When I opened it, there was the beautiful metallic blue Jackson guitar I was going to buy, and there was a note on it that said, "You have given so much of yourself to music and given so much of yourself that someone needed to do something for you, so here's a new toy for you to play with!!" Well I couldn't believe she did that for me!
Well over that 6 year period I wrote and created enough music to put together 4 full albums of music, doing the playing and recording of all the instruments but composing my own drums note by note and then using sampled sounds from my own drums I had recorded from demos I had recorded with past bands so I was able to still sound like me playing drums, then borrowing a bass guitar recorded all the music on a digital program called a D.A.W. (digital audio workshop program) then I wrote all the lyrics of which I poured all my pain of all I had lost into then added my vocals to all the music I had created. I had to do it that way because I am a very technical writer and player of the metal genre and I didn't want my music to sound or be electronic. I succeeded doing that. Now I finally had my own music that belonged and came out of me and was mine. That's when I came out of hiding away in my studio. Those four self-made albums are not the greatest music, but they did help me get past all my depression and pain and got me back to being my true self again. The next album titled "2Bad4Blood" is number 5 of which I'm almost finished with and is by far my best work yet. It's my most confidential writing and playing I've ever done and of the few that have heard it have told me these are my most masterful works of music they've ever heard come from me. That always makes me feel good because nothing whatsoever, stops me from doing what I was meant to do while I'm alive!
*In Today's News, It seems all the real musicians, not the fake ones who use other peoples music that they copy bits and pieces to use in repeat and repeat over and over again and then their record companies who brain wash society by playing their crap everywhere and anywhere they can so they can kill all of us real artists out of the world so that everyone will only listen to and buy their no talent hip hopping flip skipping rip rap crap, and no one will ever know that the music industry has killed the true artists of music because now everyone loves their bullshit they make and the dreams of us that are the real writers of music just slowly disappear forever...I wouldn't doubt that one day you'll hear that we all have took part in a mass suicide, killing ourselves leaving notes that said "This world no longer deserves our talent and skill, you just swept us away...so try to have fun with your fake and unrealistic bullshit music and your noise makers because since you people don't care at all for what us real writers and players of real music who haven't stolen pieces from others but we are original creators of our own music and the only thing we will lastly do for you is tell you from the bottom of our hearts, is to kiss our white royal asses good bye, you've let yourselves be brain washed by the rich untalented people who care more about taking your money than caring about music or what you really want to hear or how you might feel about what they've done...the record companies don't realize that they are contributing to the downfall of our planet by steps that will slowly make our live that will resemble the movie "Blade Runner" Now is that how you wish life to become...?
Sincerely From Everyone Who Are The Underground Players And The Real, True Artist Musicians, I'm Just One Of Not So Many Left,
LightningFire
J.Michael Piper
P.S. Here is a video of one of my newest instrumental music pieces from my newest album "2Bad4Blood" where you can hear others on my website at: https://lightningfire4u2.wixsite.com/lightningfire
So take a listen and if you like it go listen to more on my website link above! Thanks
Enjoy!
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Thanks so much for the watch and llama very much appreciated my friend!! 😊
Hey Dys, you're very welcome! I used to have a friend on here another artist with the same part of your name Dystopia-something, but that was 20 years ago...anyway you're quite welcome my newest friend!
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