A Bio in 7 Acts
Act I: Jaime was born in Boston and immediately moved to Portugal
for 3 years.
Despite the fact that he traveled on the national airline of
Portugal, in-flight entertainment included great American standards from
Neil Young and Bob Dylan that are now permanently etched in his brain.
Act II: Jaime next moved to New York City for 7 years.
It was here that he was watching Saturday Night Live when he
saw the Rolling Stones for the first time. Mesmerized, he bought a guitar,
and stayed home from the 2nd grade until he learned to play the album
Some Girls.
Act III: New Jersey is next.
Upstairs in his Westfield, NJ, home, Jaime played every record he could
find backwards, but remembers nothing beyond John asking a dead man to
turn him on.
Act IV: He moved back to Portugal for 2 years.
Jaime finished his last two years of high school in Lisbon. Rumor had
it that his school —St. Julian’s— was the same school
that Bryan Adams went to in 1969. Coincidence or not, during these two
years, Jaime “and some guys from school had a band and tried real
hard.” This would be his first band experience, playing covers from
Jimi Hendrix, Jim Croce, Neil Young and Bob Marley.
Act V: From Portugal to Pittsburgh.
Monks of Doom and Cracker were all that were left of Camper by the time
Jaime made it to Pittsburgh, but they were enough to maintain Jaime on
life support until he made his way back to Boston 4 years later. Beginning
to write songs for the first time, he started Jimmy’s Rosefarm in
Pittsburgh as the vehicle for those songs.
Act VI: Back in Boston.
Upon arriving back in Boston with an armful of new songs, Jaime and a
good friend started the band Five Dollar Milkshake. Musical staple food
in these years included 120 Minutes, where he was heavily influenced by
one particular tripped-out voice-modulating appearance by Beck. Seven
years with Five Dollar Milkshake sharpened Jaime’s on-stage presence;
it didn’t hurt that he played over 200 shows with the band. In the
midst of Five Dollar Milkshake, Jaime put out a well-received solo album
in 1999 under the moniker the Timbre Project. When FDM disbanded two years
later, Jaime resurfaced with another Timbre Project album, Ruining Perfectly
Good Songs, which landed him on the Windjam Records label.
Act VII: The Cayman Islands.
Boston winters finally took their toll, and Jaime has been in the Cayman
Islands now for the past year writing songs and living through the worst
hurricane to hit the Cayman Islands in 100 years. He plans to return to
Boston within the next year to release and support a new album.
Email him: jaime@timbreproject.com.
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