Friday, July 11, 2008

ROLL CREDITS!!!!!!!!




Thats me. The originater. The first of the Campbell six. I'm not good at much but I make make music that will f*** your head up! I am one of the greatest who has ever done it. My goal is to get you to realize that!!! I've already told my story. Where do I fit in in this whole Black Irishmen thing? Hard to say. Since I've been doing it the longest, I guess I feel like a proud father watching all of his kids win the little league world series year after year. I'm real excited about working with Family. Of all of the people that we work with, I think that my story interests me the least. When you see the Black irishmen name on records you may think only of me and my brothers. This is not true however. We have a whole team that makes this happen. Since you are being invited to join us as we move forward with our saga, please allow me a few moments to introduce the cast members of this story.................................

Tony Perez "The Negotiator"




Tony Perez.


Tony Perez is our manager. He is one part whirlwind, one part tsunami and one hundred percent hustle. He has been managing me for about 3 years and has done for my career what 10 managers could not have accomplished together. Tony is always busy! He is all fragmented sentences and unfinished thoughts. When I talk to him, I swear I can literally hear the gears and cogs in his mind spinning as he begins one sentence talking about one thing and ends it talking about another. Tony Perez has so much going! He is the only man I know who will interrupt himself in a conversation! He is pretty amazing. A sight to behold. I always imagine him as this solar powered beat hustler, who doesnt so much as sleep as he collapses himself into a ball, much like sleep mode on this computer. Then he wakes...and is off again! It would be fair to say that with out Tonys hustle, I wouldnt have sold anything at all in the last 3 years. He is the best in the business..literally!

Evan Krauss "Attorney to the stars"



Evan Krauss.


Evan Krauss is our attorney. He is the anti-attorney actually. If you take all of the supposed characteristics of a music business attorney and invert them, you would have Evan. What I am going to say will most likely leave you stunned and incredulous, but I often have to remind Evan that I owe him money. I have not received one invoice for a phone call or fax!!!! Crazy I know!!! Evan is young and extremely bright. He does not like to admit this but I cannot help but observe that he has quite a way with the ladies. He was instrumental in negotiating our Emi publishing deal. What I most love about Evan is his humility. After you speak with him, you always come away with the feeling that this man with this highly intimidating intellect and powers of calculation has some how convinced you that hes just like you...mortal. He has'nt fooled me one bit. While he may be the cool lawyer that you wanna sit down and have a drink with and talk about pin up girls...well lets just put it like this..If God challenged me to a game of chess,,,I'd send Evan!

Emee Calpito "The Publicist"




Emee Calpito. Emmy Calpito is our publicist. She is the newest member of our team, and she defies description. Emmy is like a Savant. She is surprisingly, no shockingly young to have accomplished what she has so far. When asked, I describe her as the publishing worlds version of 14-year-old tennis prodigy Teimour Radjabov. She is uncannily talented at something that takes some people years to hone. To prove my point, consider this fact. Emmy has worked for LA Reid, Russell Simmons and many others practically before she was even legally able to drink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I remember when I was in the Arkitects and we went with her to the 2005 BET Awards. We were standing nervously in line at the red carpet, hoping to slink past all of the camera crews as unobtrusively as possible and started to do so when suddenly out of no where, this 5" tall Filipino girl comes and stops the show!!! "Everyone pay attention!" She shouts."These guys are the Arkitects, they are going to be the next big thing, get your pics now" Your going to want to know them!!!!" Suddenly all lens sweep towards us and the most disconcerting pops and explosions of light ensue! Photographers are shouting questions and I was stupefied! Emee had single handedly turned our little carpet walk into a mini feeding frenzy! Im sure is wasnt until much later, in their dark rooms and photshops that the photographers asked them selves.."Why did we take pics of these two clowns?" Emee Calpito. Thats why.

Manny Martinez/ Assistant/Guitar god!!1




Manny Martinez is our assistant/guitar God to the stars. Manny is a serious, serious dude. He is not for all the bullshit! manny is the young guy who will corner you at a party and pontificate for hours on the f***ed up state of music. At the end of his impassioned diatribe, you will suddenly discover that he has every reason to do so..All music would be disappointing to you too if you had mannys incredible guitar skill and years at Berklee school of music to back it up!I love listening to this guy talk. Manny is all glower and surly stare. He has somehow managed to capture the cynicism of the jaded veteran and the wide eyed rapture of the newly converted at the same time. He is constantly reminding me of how I felt when I first got into the business. I am reminded of how much fun that this can actually be.

Paul Campbell /Producer/Songwriter



Paul is intense. He doesnt just DO anything. Its all planned. Strategized. Paul is the sum of every business self help book that you have ever read. He regurgitates parables and helpful little metaphors for just about any situation that life could bring to you! He has read and digested all of it. He has become a veritable black Irish Tony Robbins and guess what haters...It works!


I have watched this brother of mine will himself into being great. And make no mistake about it, he IS great. He has been bangin out music for sometime but took a couple of years off to go to bible school. I suppose this was meant to find himself. All I know is when he came back he was a beast! I secretly wonder what he found up there because I think I would bottle it and sell it on the Internet to wack producers!


So he comes back as a bible school drop out, and jumps right into this music game with a vengeance. I warned him that he'll be running with a whole different crowd but I'm glad that he went to that school. I mean, we could use it. I seen the devil plenty of times since Ive been in the music business. He runs around midtown manhattan with a button down dress shirt and white sneakers talkin bout some"Have your people call my people!" "Lets do lunch!" Yeah that devil is slick. Paul is no joke. I'll put him up against any producer out. I love the team man, we are deep!

Chris Campbell/ "Dr. Do it all"




Chris Campbell Chris is my brother. Chris Campbell is Dr do it all. I swear. This dude can do everything! He is an amazing producer and songwriter. But you don't have to stop with that. After he's done producing, writing, mixing and mastering your hit record, he can do your taxes, fix your car and build you a stunning single family dwelling replete with cinema room and in ground water pump. On Sundays you might find him leading praise and worship.This is NOT an exaggeration!Chris is interesting too because even though he is a pretty boy, I have personally seen him beat the brakes off of some really thuggish lookin hoods. Its always funny cuz Ill see it coming from a loooooong way off..its kind of like watching Suge Knight gettin his ass whipped by a fourth grader. You always walk a way like "What the f***?"Chris is the consummate genius. He is moody. Sometimes he is the comedian that will have the whole room dying in laughter. Sometimes he is in a surly mood. Chris is however, never more fun then when he gets philosophical, which he tends to do alot. He is inexhaustible. He just turned in 1o songs to us last night...and he started recording them like..last night! I don't know how he does it! If you cut him, he'd probably bleed red bull!!!!