![]() ![]() ![]() One of the songs that I consider a “bridge” between Miller’s two styles of music is called “ Uncountry.” It is a song that explains exactly who he is and what he is doing. It was nice doing a southern rock show there, knocking the doors down before the doors got shut,” the rocker reminisced. “I guess that’s a nice way to go out because that’s a legendary club where The Doors got discovered and Alice Cooper got discovered and Mötley Crüe used to live upstairs. The last show that he played with a full band was March 8, 2020, at the Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Boulevard in LA. He was in full swing building the best version of himself when the pandemic hit. When he puts out music with his name on it, it’s going to represent him as a person. This is what inspired Miller in a different direction. Then with smaller and smaller labels, we felt like we were making the best artistic music that we could and improving but on a business level, we were getting diminishing returns.” We went from being on a really big label to three more albums after that. ![]() He explained, “Godhead didn’t really break up, we started getting demoralized. He reset himself and started writing songs that sounded good with only a guitar and voice. Now I want to do something that is just about the song, just about singing.” When we went on the road, we had this big production go with us. We used a lot of electronics in our sound. ![]() With Godhead, there were so many moving pieces. But as we get older and want to more honest with ourselves, I didn’t want to play a character anymore. He continued, “Godhead was what I was aspiring to be, the ultimate rock star. At the end of the day, I am a country boy who grew up in the woods of Virginia spending hours shooting my bow and arrow while listening to Lynryd Skynryd,” he said. “I wanted to do something totally different from what I was known for, but also something that was authentic to me, that I was inspired to play. The last Godhead album came out in 2009 and From the Wreckage, Part 1 is the 5th record since then. Miller’s solo music that he has created more recently is a departure from the industrial rock which made him famous. Honestly, I don’t think that there were enough good old-fashioned southern rock songs back in the first wave so let’s bring some more out now.” Miller agrees, “I wanted to give people the memory of that. They went on to tour with Marilyn Manson, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Disturbed, GWAR, Slipknot, Rammstein, Linkin Park, and Jonathan Davis (Korn).Įven though the record From the Wreckage, Part 1 is mostly comprised of new material, it sounds like old-fashioned southern rock. Eventually, they became the only band signed to Marilyn Manson’s Posthuman Records. But later on while still living in Virginia, he and his friends formed the band Godhead got a record deal, and moved to Los Angeles. In school, he was somewhat involved in musical theater. Although the town is now a darling of day trips, when 48-year-old lived there, his closest neighbor was ½ mile away. The Clifton, Virginia native had his musical debut at the tender age of 4 on the back of a train by singing a John Denver song. And it was different than most of the music that is pitched to me. It was both fresh and familiar at the same time. It was more like a mashup between Lynryd Skynyrd meets Americana. When Aristo PR sent me songs from Jason Charles Miller’s From the Wreckage, Part 1 Album, I thought, “This is good, really good.”Īlthough metal fans will know, I was not familiar with Miller from the rock band, Godhead. ![]()
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