Jon Robert Quinn's fourth CD Release is outstanding, providing intense, in-your-face instrumental rock. This CD provides 13 high-energy tracks that redefines Jon Robert Quinn's sound and abilities.
Months before JeRQ THIS! was released, radio stations from around the world got to sample the CD. Immediately, they started adding songs to their playlists. This is no suprise to anybody, since this IS the BEST Jon Robert Quinn record to date and critics have given this CD outstanding reviews.
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Here's a breakdown of each song from the mind of Jon Robert Quinn.
BELIEVE - I had so much fun writing and recording this CD that I believed that is was going to do extremely well. And well, it did. The JeRQ THIS was the best selling record to date. The tour from that CD was awesome. We had such a great time meeting the new fans and playing all the new venues. This song goes much deeper than another fun song though. In the opening of the song, you will hear a whistling noise. Believe it or not, that is actually a guitar, and no its not effects. Here's how I got the sound. Take you wah pedal and plug the input into the output and output into the input, basically plug it in backwards. Turn the guitar all the way up and use your tonal knobs and volume knobs to manipulate the signal. Then use your wah. You have to do it all very very slowly to make any kind of noise with this technique. I used to offer free CDs on tours if anybody could tell me how I got that noise of the guitar. Needless to say, I never gave any free CDs out.
SUBMERGED - Submerged was written as a jam and nothing more than that. The track was written and put into a delay to get a deeper effect. The guitars were then added and as it turns out was a hit on the JeRQ THIS Tour in 2005.
THE INTIMIDATOR - For any Nascar fan, The Intimidator is known as Dale Earnhardt Sr. I was a huge fan of Earnhardt before his death in 2001. This song was written in tribute to him. This song is song #3 on both this CD and The Best of Jon Robert Quinn, in tribute to the #3 on his car. Being a 7 minute, this song has to take you on a journey. It starts out with a nice balanced pace symbolizing his career. A man with a goal and a passion to be the best he can be. A third of the way through the song, things go haywire with a crazy guitar solo symbolizing the top of his career with his Daytona 500 wins. Two-thirds of the way through the song, it seems to come to an end symbolizing his big crash at Daytona. Though his life was ended, his legacy was not. The song goes back to the original groove proving that though he may not be with us anymore, he will forever be known as one of the greatest race car drivers in history.
LOOK INTO THE HEAVENS - Have you ever looked into the heavens? If not, sit back and stare into the sky. Listen to this song and don't think of anything except the clouds passing by. This is a great song to just sit back and relax as you look into the heavens.
JERQ THIS - One day in 2004, somebody online called me a jerk using my initials JRQ, spelling it JeRQ. So when recording this record, I needed a good name for it. JeRQ kind of stuck with me, but I couldnt just name it JeRQ. So what about JeRQ THIS? Everybody I talked to about it loved it. From that point on I havent looked back. While recording the record, I needed a really wild song that would get the crowd going while on tour. I thought a song with the same name would be good. JeRQ THIS was born.
EVEN MORE CONFUSED - Confused was written in 2004 for the Solo-Fisticated CD, when writing this album, I remembered that the public really relates to Confused. I was thinking how I could recreate that energy. I decided to use the same foundation from Confused, but with a twist. I was sure this would work, or was I confused. Maybe I was confused before. If thats so, then I am Even More Confused now.
NO DIRECTION - No Direction is a song like no other. Why? Because it is the only song I have ever written and recorded using a 7 string guitar. Even live when I perform it, I use a 6 string. This song has done very well and was used the opening for my reality TV show, JRQ TV.
UNEARTHLY EUPHANY - This is one of my favorite songs on this CD because it has so many changes. The chorus is a hammer-on, tapping combo. Half way through the song, everything comes to a stop with a pretty guitar piece accomplied by a xylophone. Like many of the songs on this CD, the tracks were written, recorded, then run through to a delay to add to the dynamics. This is an awesome song.
HIGHWAY TO VEGAS - Have you ever driven to Las Vegas? I have and its a long drive. So when you are driving through the desert to Vegas, what is something you need? Well, I need good driving music. I have always considered my music good driving music. Well, there is a part in the song that goes Doodlee Doodlee Doodlee. I thought that sounded like a slot machine, so Highway to Vegas was born. Even though the highway to las vegas is very boring and bland, I didn't want to write a boring and bland song. Highway to Vegas is much better.
MARCH OF FREEDOM - March of Freedom was written in memory of all of our fallen soldiers in Iraq. This song opens with a soldier march and Jon Robert Quinn simulating the sound of a helicopter flying overhead with the guitar. Then the melody starts and provides a powerful feeling of war.
SHINTRO - What is a Shintro? I have no idea either. I am not sure what I was thinking when I named this song. Every piece of this song I wrote. From the placement of strike of the tom, to the snare, to the placement of each note on the keyboard. This song was a blast to create. Still today, years later, I love every second of this song.
WALKING MAN - This song was a lot of fun to record. I called it Walking Man because when playing the chorus, it feels like your fingers are walking on the fretboard of the guitar. Also, the wah pedal goes WAH WAH WAH WAH throughout the chorus, so again, its like walking. Learn to play it and enjoy. Its really fun.
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