[man among men]
COMING SOON!
“Scapegoat Poster Boy”
Featuring: Jared Fron (BlesstheFall) Drums, HB Abels (Soulfly) Recording Engineer, Larry Elyea (Eminem, Corey Taylor/Slipknot, Bionic Jive, Sevendust) Master Engineer & Kerry-Valentine Smith (AYVA, Project: 9/11) Guitars, Vocals & Production Engineer
Bass: TBA
Dear family, fans and friends
It is with deep regret to disclose to you at this time
Our dear friend and Engineer HB has passed…
He was in a terrible accident on his way to see his friends, the band, “Soil” , on tour in Louisville, Kentucky where he was getting off work from an AV Corporate gig/event.
His Uber was struck in an three car accident and he was in critical condition at a hospital until his mother could get help to be by his side.
They have started a GoFundMe.
I put the link here.
https://gofund.me/f576ad78d
HB was not only a close, personal friend but was involved intimately in helping me with many of my songs with also having been the main pre-production engineer for my song “Beyond All Measure”… the keys for “Supernatural (An Interlude for Jason Becker), my guitar solos for “ADRENOCHROME” …
And most recently, this song, “Scapegoat Poster Boy” , since last year, sadly being delayed, conflicting schedules, over the top challenges with communication… Timing and budget constraints…
And now, finally, after all this time and HB and I having our last session bout 6-7 weeks back now, then now, he just dropped off one of my 7 strings he always kept at his studio for me so it'd always be there for sessions… he was dropping it off to me last Sunday before last to rehearse and use for this week, this last Tuesday, my session with Larry to re-track Guitar 1 & Demo Vocals, and literally a day or two I think before I found out about this accident last week…
As a bunch of you know, well, HB knew, I only have tumblr now for an social network, and my music is only on SoundCloud, Tune.Fm, and Rumble…
YouTube banned our channel due to demo shorts posts of my song ‘’ADRENOCHROME'' when it was brewing, though the content was public domain from YouTube videos, it got struck for cyberbullying?
Anyways, the rest of the platforms, distributors, etc., are Talmudists Zionists owned outlets as well, support of, or donate to, and my Uncle and cousins on my moms side married into our Jewish Irish side are Palestinian so I have been needing to let those go for a while now…
Here now, reaching the final stages of the song, Larry and I were filtering through guitar tracks we recorded at HB's studio through his custom Friedman amp setup… it was quite the surreal experience tracking next to those tracks and hearing it all again with the new tracks being recorded
I'm so confused, angry… I could repeat that over an over to avoid typing sad or depressed…
I just keep thinking, telling myself, one, HB was doing what he loved, on his way to doing what he loved most, hanging with friends, talking music, shop, was his favorite thing to do besides work believe it or not, HB loved his job, he loved music, he loved people, he was an good man, superb AV Technician, brilliant, intuitive, mindful and a true friend that the world could use up-teen million, billion more of…
I can't speak for the rest of the artists involved with this song, I have to pay everyone, I have to call the final shots…
But as for myself, I will be including my share, my royalties for ‘’Scapegoat Poster Boy'', in with HB's % with his %'s for ‘'Beyond All Measure'' to his mother…
Thank you for time and attention
Valentine
[man among men]
Coming, 2027
[man among men]
Album/LP
“01”
Side A
TRK 1) Outlaw (Alt 7 String Version)
TRK 2) Supernatural (An Interlude for Jason Becker) : Alt 7 Strng Vers.
TRK 3) R-Complex (Alt 7 Version)
TRK 4) The Distance (Alt 7 Version)
TRK 5) Epiphany (Alt 7 Version)
Side B
TRK 6) Beyond All Measure (Remixed Alt Version- Atma vocals/Post Sherinian Solos, Piano Outro)
TRK 7) Scapegoat Poster Boy (Alt Version)
TRK 8) Chaos - Instrumental (Alt Version)
TRK 9) RISE ‘n’ SHINE ✨ (Alt Version)
TRK 10) ADRENOCHROME (Re-mixed DJ Version)