Jet By Day did two tours with Hey Mercedes.  On the first tour we gave Mike (guitar) one of these shirts.  No more than 6 months later, we were on tour with Hey Mercedes again and we had to give Mike another one of these shirts because he had worn the first one out by wearing it every day!  I love this shirt, but not nearly as much as Mike does.

When i did this 7″ design back in late 2002 or early 2003, i was just learning how to use photoshop again (i had used a super early version at a journalism camp in high school) and really was clueless.  i didn’t own a computer and was on what was pretty much the Jet By Day communal pc in their house.  It was a learning experience and i’m still proud of the final product.  There are, of course, some things that i would change if i had to do it over, but I still think that its a pretty cool and unique 7″ package.  For the record, I’m a little embarrassed about the oversight on the label.  i haven’t made that mistake since.

Jet By Day was from Athens/Atlanta, GA from like 1995 till 2005.  I designed merchandise, sold merchandise, tour managed, bro’d down (haha), drove the van (sometimes), took care of (always), and video documented for the band from 2002 until 2005.  Some of the best days of my life.  I’m currently working on a documentary film about the 3 years that the 5 of us toured together.  I designed many shirts, stickers, a 7″ and posters over the years but my favorite work that i did for them was my first proper CD packaging.  I had been designing 7″s and tapes since high school but “the Vulture” was my first project that got real distrobution and “real” printing.  I’m still proud of this layout and package.  This album was released in 2005 by Future Farmer Recordings.  It’s an incredible record.

Here we have the official release of “Steamy Scandals & Love Handles”, the greatest recording ever recorded. The photographs were taken by the Wal-Mart photo team.  I had a little bit more time to get this artwork together and make sure that everything was perfect.  This was released in 2005.  I was greatly honored to be able to work with the legendary Die Slaughterhaus Records on this package.  If you don’t know Die Slaughterhaus, you should.  I hope i get to work with them again.  If you don’t have this… contact me and i can make one available to you…

If you have this tape or have had the honor of hearing it, then you know of Rump Posse’s supremacy.  I think we made about 90 of these tapes.  I stayed up all night one very long (but exciting) night in 2004 at Kinko’s. The cover watercolor was done by Brandon Betts (better known as “Ace”).  This is quite possibly the greatest tape ever made.  This is one of the first times that my nickname “Joystick” was used with or instead of my real name.