Deron, Joe, and Friends

A Reflection

2007-11-10T23:50:00.000-05:00

My friends, what has happened to that wonderful band?
They were the greatest musical force in all the land
They promised they were back, once again
But like times before, we're left remembering when
They created masterful epics, all day long
Cranking out hits, song after song
Maybe one day we shall see their return
Maybe once more that epic fire shall burn
But until that day we look back and reflect
On the epic prowess that is, D J F

- Mikey Thunderfunk

Boot Scoot'n Boogie

2007-07-10T17:53:00.001-04:00

My belief that country music sucks has been reaffirmed through being forced to listen to it for two whole working days, which is around twelve hours, six hours each day. During these treacherous hours I have had lots of time to ponder why country music sucks so very, very hard, and I have come to the conclusion that country musicians use the same two songs and just sing different lyrics over them. You have the choice between the good ol' up tempo two step and the slow, but ever reflective ballad. Now when it comes to lyrical content artists like to expand their horizons a little bit and explore not two, but three different subjects!! These three topics are:

1. Girls, which includes makin' love, having kids with the wife, and of course saying "I'm sorry babe."

2. Partying, which is an all encompassing mix of smoking, drinking whiskey, picking up broads, and beating on the wife!

3. Redneck stuff, which is driving tractors, shooting queers, growing up in a small town, and once again drinking whiskey.

Now, if I did my math correctly that's a whopping six different song types, which spread over the course of twelve hours means I got to hear two hours of up tempo songs about girls, two hours of slow ballads about girls, two hours of up tempo songs about partying, two hours of of slow ballads about partying, two hours of up tempo songs about redneck shit, and finally two hours of slow ballads about being a redneck. Yeeeehaw I do love that repetitious country music! I think this chart* explains it best.

*All research done listening to Country 105, all country all the time!!!!

Epicus Maximus

2007-07-09T14:52:00.000-04:00

Deron, Joe, and Friends is all about epic, which is obvious through our majestic masterpieces we also call "songs." Every once in a while, someone else does something epic, and I would like to share one such instance with you. Behold, the most epic guitar ever made.

This axe was custom made for a Japanese power metal guitarist for about 4,500 big ones. Doubling as a death-bringing device, if played fast enough, this guitar spawns a dragon from the hellfire such as this one.

Only in Japanese power metal.

The Triumphant Return

2007-07-08T17:32:00.000-04:00

You've been waiting and waiting and now finally you shall aurally receive the rereturning of DJF. Fasten your respective restraining device and hold on. Through the magic of interweb technology we will be providing you with DJF news, the latest DJF songs, as well as DJF imagery and videos documenting our humble/musical domination of the world and surrounding territories.

Now some news...
We've recorded 2 songs so far since our return and they are available below in shitty(rough) built-in microphone recorded format. I believe Deron explains this and the rest of the DJF news better than I, so I'll just blockquote him.

"Yes, it's true. After another short hiatus we have made another comeback. This time around we are a more focused, majestic, and epic consortium, and the new tunes we are musically fusing are of course as epic as ever. The slightly new DJF format consists of myself (D-Tron) and Joseph on the instrument we like to refer to as the "coustic." Nico Salvatori is our current lyrical mastermind and primary vocalist, although we all contribute in that department. We also have adapted a new philosophy that if we cannot play a song live, it sucks, so don't be expecting a lot of overdubbed guitar wankage ... Lastly, through our good friend Martin we may be entering a professional studio to record a bunch of tunes, but until then we'll just be recording at lackluster quality. Enjoy!!!"

-Mikey Thunderfunk