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Ranging from tender to anthemic, Jets Under Fire’s sensibility and melodic, piano-driven style will definitely garner them comparisons to brit sensations like Keane, Travis, and the Verve. However, the band’s music is also shaped by Smashing Pumpkins, The Beatles, and the Beach Boys.
That being said, just one listen to their third release, Kingdoms, makes it obvious the band is informed by their influences, not confined. Built around Jason Poe’s emotive vocals, Jets Under Fire’s songs are unflinchingly introspective and penetratingly beautiful. What’s more is that Poe has that rare ability to suck the audience into his world, making it all but impossible not to hang silently on every note at one of their dramatic live performances. Poe’s delivery of lyrics like “Baby, I feel just like a fool,” and “All I need is a piece of solid ground,” is so honest and devoid of posturing that before you know it you’ve dug up these feelings and you’re experiencing them as you listen. This phenomenon is obvious to anybody who has ever seen the band live. It’s not uncommon to hear total silence when the band drops away during a bridge leaving only Poe’s words sung in his unmistakable, heartbreaking way. And in a city where people see live music to catch up with wayward friends, make new ones, and generally socialize, that speaks volumes about the band’s connection with its fans. Great songwriting, showmanship, and good old-fashioned hard work have done much to create the loyal fan base they now boast, but it’s Jason Poe’s ability to really make you experience the world through him that makes Jets Under Fire so hard to dismiss as just another brit pop band.
Jets Under Fire began as the solo project of Jason Poe, front man for The Professional Americans. The project started as a fit of creative fury after a job loss in 2002 and progressed slowly over the next three years. First came the Dave Bazan-inspired Promises, which was written as a linear concept album in 2002 and recorded in a small storm shelter in Southwest Missouri two years later. Poe’s bitter sweet melodies and emotive lyrics exploring the ideas of self-righteousness and forgiveness helped create a small but loyal fan base after the record was released the same year.
Jets Under Fire’s second release, The Winter EP, came in December 2004 and showcased a much more complete adaptation of Poe’s vision. Unlike the quiet, acoustic reverie of Promises, the new work was piano-driven and included a full band. Though some of the songs still boasted the quiet side of Jets Under Fire fans had come to love, the more bombastic tunes like All the Sad Songs and the fact that Poe played all the instruments, produced, and recorded the EP himself, garnered him a new level respect from his peers. In July 2005, Jason's full-time band, The Professional Americans, relocated to Austin, TX to try their luck in the legendary music scene. Despite promising label interest, The Professional Americans began to suffer from a lack of solidarity and within a year the members had gone their separate ways. Poe no longer had any reason to ignore the momentum Jets Under Fire had gained over the last three years and he set out to put together a set of players that could bring his music to life. Featuring drummer Corbin Petersen (formally of The Professional Americans) and bass player Todd Meador (formally of Cord), Jets Under Fire is now a recognizable name in the Austin music scene and is poised to go much, much further.
www.jetsunderfire.com
Band Members:
Jason Poe - Vocals/Guitar
Corbin Petersen - Drums/Vocals
Todd Meador- Bass/Vocals
Stu Smtih-Guitar
www.jetsunderfire.com
www.myspace.com/jetsunderfire
http:/… Read Full Bio ↴LINKS:
www.jetsunderfire.com
www.myspace.com/jetsunderfire
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Jets+Under+Fire
Ranging from tender to anthemic, Jets Under Fire’s sensibility and melodic, piano-driven style will definitely garner them comparisons to brit sensations like Keane, Travis, and the Verve. However, the band’s music is also shaped by Smashing Pumpkins, The Beatles, and the Beach Boys.
That being said, just one listen to their third release, Kingdoms, makes it obvious the band is informed by their influences, not confined. Built around Jason Poe’s emotive vocals, Jets Under Fire’s songs are unflinchingly introspective and penetratingly beautiful. What’s more is that Poe has that rare ability to suck the audience into his world, making it all but impossible not to hang silently on every note at one of their dramatic live performances. Poe’s delivery of lyrics like “Baby, I feel just like a fool,” and “All I need is a piece of solid ground,” is so honest and devoid of posturing that before you know it you’ve dug up these feelings and you’re experiencing them as you listen. This phenomenon is obvious to anybody who has ever seen the band live. It’s not uncommon to hear total silence when the band drops away during a bridge leaving only Poe’s words sung in his unmistakable, heartbreaking way. And in a city where people see live music to catch up with wayward friends, make new ones, and generally socialize, that speaks volumes about the band’s connection with its fans. Great songwriting, showmanship, and good old-fashioned hard work have done much to create the loyal fan base they now boast, but it’s Jason Poe’s ability to really make you experience the world through him that makes Jets Under Fire so hard to dismiss as just another brit pop band.
Jets Under Fire began as the solo project of Jason Poe, front man for The Professional Americans. The project started as a fit of creative fury after a job loss in 2002 and progressed slowly over the next three years. First came the Dave Bazan-inspired Promises, which was written as a linear concept album in 2002 and recorded in a small storm shelter in Southwest Missouri two years later. Poe’s bitter sweet melodies and emotive lyrics exploring the ideas of self-righteousness and forgiveness helped create a small but loyal fan base after the record was released the same year.
Jets Under Fire’s second release, The Winter EP, came in December 2004 and showcased a much more complete adaptation of Poe’s vision. Unlike the quiet, acoustic reverie of Promises, the new work was piano-driven and included a full band. Though some of the songs still boasted the quiet side of Jets Under Fire fans had come to love, the more bombastic tunes like All the Sad Songs and the fact that Poe played all the instruments, produced, and recorded the EP himself, garnered him a new level respect from his peers. In July 2005, Jason's full-time band, The Professional Americans, relocated to Austin, TX to try their luck in the legendary music scene. Despite promising label interest, The Professional Americans began to suffer from a lack of solidarity and within a year the members had gone their separate ways. Poe no longer had any reason to ignore the momentum Jets Under Fire had gained over the last three years and he set out to put together a set of players that could bring his music to life. Featuring drummer Corbin Petersen (formally of The Professional Americans) and bass player Todd Meador (formally of Cord), Jets Under Fire is now a recognizable name in the Austin music scene and is poised to go much, much further.
www.jetsunderfire.com
Band Members:
Jason Poe - Vocals/Guitar
Corbin Petersen - Drums/Vocals
Todd Meador- Bass/Vocals
Stu Smtih-Guitar
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Jets Under Fire Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Jets Under Fire:
All The Sad Songs All I need is a piece of solid ground Is the…
Because We Care It's a beautiful day And everything is just great My broth…
Broken Parts We've been looking around For the answers but the answers c…
Circles When does it end And when did it begin The feeling that…
Eleven Fifty-Two It's 11:52 And I'm stepping over you Your in the other roo…
Emerald Eyes The grass is always greener When you look with emerald eyes…
Epiphany A Never-Ending Mercy Have wasted all my life On weakness I saw as my…
Epiphany + A Never-Ending Mercy Have wasted all my life On weakness I saw as my…
From Here to the Ashes Straw broke my fragile back It was all of you who…
Just Like The Cold I was told Head for the summer Where the leaves will hold …
Moonlight Heartbeats and I'm lost In the bloodflow Judgement set asi…
She Lost Her Way Her body is cold It's bloody and lacking breathe So I'll d…
Ships On The Sea Tragedy is coming for you, And it's coming for me Baby is…
Skin Was My Only Armor Lights flicker red and blue Shot to kill is the order I've…
The End We can sit here and chew the fat We can lie…
The Whitest Light Clothed in modern robes, I am fighting To save the spark…
Waiting in Shadows Hey no body's home I think I'll break in Disconnect the ph…
Your Own Hands Remember when we were young? Summer days out in the sun An…
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gerry301
Very nice history review. The tons of bombs dropped on European cities does not equate to the tons of bombs dropped during the Vietnam war. I would suggest that the majority of the bombs dropped during the Vietnam war were dropped on the Ho Chi Minh trail. The entire reason Johnson and McNamera had a 20 mile no bombing Zone around Hanoi was because they were afraid of civilian casualties, much the same with the 15 mile no bomb zone around Haiphong. Add Laos and Cambodia into the total as well.
Gerry
RogerwilcoFoxtrot You may be right, as Johnson and McNamera had great fears of China entering the war. Its why the had a no fly/bomb zone within 30 miles of the Chinese border. Its too bad, as China was in great upheaval due to the cultural revolution and I doubt they could have done much except provide cannon fodder.
randy95023
Thanks so much for posting your vids. I thought I'd seen just about every Vietnam War documentary but this one is new to me. Thanks again.
Amadeo Silva
Precious Vietnamese lives
We were fighting on the wrong side
One thing u gotta do going into war is get the right atide South Vietnamese we’re weak incompetent horribly mislead and Totally corrupt. North Vietnamese just wanted to be free of foreign domination and i dnt blame them ONE BIT
My dad fought there
Thank you American men who responded to the call
Hats off to the Vietcong and NVA we were also horribly mislead and lied to by our govt
God bless USA and GodBless Vietnam
Please forgive us
Sparkle
@Amadeo Silva we where not on the wrong side, every time communism has been applied millions of people have died.
Larry Linn
@Sparkle It was a civil war.
gerry301
Walter is amazed that "almost three times the amount of bombs dropped during WWII". Didn't the Vietnam war last almost three times longer than the war in Europe?
lkyelberg
This was the screwy way they reported on this damn war. For instance , when the battle of hamburger hill went down. The media reported to the nation the number of casualties taken for an entire month. But people back home were enraged by the number of casualties at Hamburger Hill. Only to find out about the bullshit numbers reported in the press.
Don't get me wrong. There were a lot of casualties at that battle. I am in no way trying to justify or take away from it.
ENLIGHTENED WARRIOR
@lkyelberg it was a worthless hill we left and let the enemy have it back this war was a total waste
horde
He's amazed because Vietnam is one country. Ww2 was, a "world war" that took place throughout the entire world.
Vietnam was the concentration of bombing against ONE country