Other Ventures
Owen Bucey, Aaron Goldberg and Kai Dodson formed and are members of the band, The Calamity. They released their debut record, Songs From The Gold Coast, on Missing Words Records in 2009. In the Calamity, Goldberg plays drums while Dodson plays guitar and Bucey is the lead singer. The Calamity plays regularly in the Ventura area.
Army of Freshmen formed a 10 man cover band, Big Band, along with members of New Liberty, Jeff Hershey and the Heartbeats and Aaron Orbit. Originally a one off for a birthday party, the idea proved so popular the band now performs once at year, usually at a festival in Ventura.
Aaron Goldberg and Chris Jay have teamed together to produce, co-write with and record several artists in different genres. Credits include artists like Delaney Gibson, Exit 4, New Liberty, Lost, Michelle Dawn Mooney, Sarah Ashleigh, Kevin Conaway, Sean Deleon, Orlando Napier, Tony Ferrari, Lainey Taylor, Danielle Taylor and Tom O'Connor. Other Army of Freshmen members have performed on several of the releases produced by Goldberg and Jay.
Aaron Goldberg has also produced, co written with and recorded the bands, Dirty Words, Ten Four And Out, Redemtion, Loser Token, AMFX, You Had Me At Hello, Sunset on Suburbia and Albright. Chris Jay provided guest vocals on the Ten Four And Out song, “One of the Crowd”, the You Had Me At Hello song, “Pull The Trigger” and the AMFX song, “Good Evening San Diego, I’m Ron Burgundy.”
Chris Jay produced the debut EP of Ventura band, Your Remedy and the debut record of Ventura singer songwriter, Heather Rae.
Former drummer, Mike Milligan produced, All We've Got Is This, the debut record of the Chicago band, Plunket. Chris Jay provided guest vocals on the record’s single, “Baby Steps”.
Chris Jay co wrote several songs on Soul Music Volume 1, the debut record of the soul and R&B band, Jeff Hershey and the Heartbeats.
Chris Jay and Aaron Goldberg created the animated, adult cartoon show, The Spank Finatra Show which is currently in development.
Chris Jay and Aaron Goldberg wrote a screenplay for a full length comedy film entitled, “Baker’s Dozen”.
Chris Jay along with musician, Jeff Hershey created a comedy reality show, Operation Man Up, which is currently in development.
Chris Jay wrote a weekly music column for the VC Reporter, a weekly newspaper in Ventura County, California, from 1999 to 2001. He still contributes frequently to the paper and has interviewed hundreds of artists. In 2003 he was sued for 10 million dollars by Mike Love of the Beach Boys over an article he wrote on Love and the current line up of the Beach Boys. The case never went to trial and was settled out of court, but all the members of Army of Freshmen had to give depositions during the discovery period of the case. Most Army of Freshmen fans and Beach Boys fans are unaware that the lawsuit ever existed as it was settled out of court before any media was made aware of the suit.
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Famous quotes containing the word ventures:
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 4:2.
Eliphaz, one of Job’s “comforters,” to Job.
“At the moment when a man openly makes known his difference of opinion from a well-known party leader, the whole world thinks that he must be angry with the latter. Sometimes, however, he is just on the point of ceasing to be angry with him. He ventures to put himself on the same plane as his opponent, and is free from the tortures of suppressed envy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)