Interview with music tastemaker Dr.Gerbz aka Jason Gerber

Jay is a longtime friend and music companion of mine, who I have watched grow in the music world for some time.  I have seen him guest host or appear on radio shows, get invited in to help out at concerts, and really get in with some great known and unknown talent. What does he do? Well really he is just a music lover.  I remember being astonished when I made the offer to mail out CD’s to any new fans he could get for a band I was managing, how surprised was I when he shot back a long list of names and addresses of requests from all over the country a few days later. Jay is someone who always has new music to introduce you to and always has a concert on his schedule to go to. His social media pages are cluttered with posts suggesting bands and flyers for shows. He is one of the biggest music lovers I know, it is a large part of his life, and for this everyone around him looks to him for recommendations. He seems to love all music, and is King of a specific domain of white trash, hard core, metal, hip hop, punk, ruccus. He represents a mix up mash up of awesome white trash music. This is why I chose him as our next music taste-maker interview.

Amanda: Tell me about your love of music, where did it come from?

Dr.Gerbz: I love all types of music took me a while to get into different stuff grew up on Country and Billy Joel and stuff like that my tastes came from my parents then and now my friends

A: What were your musical tastes earlier in life, how did they evolve?

G: Billy Joel some country as I got older I got into metal and rap and now i like pretty much everything except.. eh.. not a fan of boy bands

A: Can you share with us the most amazing show you have ever gone to, describe the whole experience, where, the stage, who opened, what was the most magical moment of the whole show?
G: Id have to say the gathering of the juggalos hard to describe the full experience cause its 4 days long so cant remember all of it but the atmosphere is great so many dif types of people all gathered together for the love of the music stages all over the place with all types of dif acts like insane clown posse, anybody, killa, twiztd psychopathic rydas, dark half scum, insane poetry, blaze ya dead homie, and so many other acts I def plan on going back this year

Check out the documentary below on the Gathering of the Juggalos:

A: What is your greatest all time music experience or memory?

G: Hard to pick just 1 so I shall give you 3: 1. my official Faygo baptism when I saw insane clown posse for the first time in 07 –  2. the year I came out to NY for the Shiragirl show and Shira wished me a happy birthday then hanging out with all of y’all after the show and – 3. getting to go to warped tour helping out promoting and seeing a bunch of bands that I loved

A: What is your favorite music now?

G: Mostly horrorcore rap cause I love the shock value and such but I cant really pick a fav type of music cause there is so much out there and new stuff coming out all the time

A: Tell me about your favorite artist — give me a little review?

G: that’s a hard one cause I have so many but ill take this time to promote my homie JPK good song content good stage presence and one of the most down to earth people I know hes from jersey but now lives out in Wisconsin he was and I believe is back with 40drop records out of Pottstown pa has done shows all over Wisconsin Delaware Texas New Jersey Pennsylvania and a few other places and released a couple of really good albums and mix tapes everyone should def check him out

http://www.facebook.com/jpk732
http://www.reverbnation.com/jpk732
http://www.twitter.com/jpk732
http://www.youtube.com/jpk732

A: What are some of the best ways/places to find new music? Where do you find yours?

G: Some of the best ways to find new music the internet, going to shows, and word of mouth. I find them by going to different shows things my friends turn me onto and internet radio stations like the one owned by my homie draco tksradio.net

A: In your opinion, what qualities make great music?

G: Great content relateatability or shock value as long as u can get into it its great music
-what makes a great song? Relate-ability or shock value and good beats
-great album catchy tunes skits and whatnot
-great artist relate-ability stage presence personality

A: What is your all time favorite music video? Why?

G: Too many to pick just 1 but 1 I’m definitely partial to is the video for whats juggalatin by jpk and bigg redd cause im in it lol

A: I have found that other people really respect your opinion of music, you are in a sense, a music resource. You seem to have a knack for knowing what other people will like, what do you think you look at and think about when selecting a song or artist to share with someone?

G: I think about the people I know and what there tastes are or just speculate and share which works sometimes and alot of guess work lol

A: Any parting words?

G: thanx for choosing to interview me shout outs to JPK, Bigg Redd, all my juggalos family and friends out there the staff at tksradio.net – Draco, Ichigo and Dawkta Rapeface check em out every Wednesday (Draco) Thursday (Ichigo) and Friday (Dawkta Rapeface) and also manic Mondays (Draco and Fallon Bowman) and everyone out there reading this