jon schaffer

• (bkz: iced earth) gitaristi.. ritm ve bas calabilio, yemek pi$irip internet'e bile baglanabilio. (bkz: demons and wizards) albumundeki ba$arisi takdire $ayandir..
• sıradan gitarist, çok iyi bestekâr.
• iced earth'ün müzikleri ve sözlerini yazan yaratıcı adam. gitar tekniğide değişik ve dikkat çekicidir yüz gitarist arasından "aha bu şaferinki" diyebilirsiniz.
  
  ayrıca bu amcamız demons and wizards'da baslarıda çalmaktadır.^*
• çok güçlü fikirleri olan ve bunları çok iyi savunabilen bir kişi.
  (bkz: iced earth/44)
• çok genç yaşta evden kaçmış olan bu şahsiyet 16 yaşında sarhoş araç kullanarak bir burger king'e girip 35000 dolar maddi zarar vermiştir.her fırsatta iron maiden ve kiss'ten fazlasıyla etkilendiğini belirten sahış "steve harris olmasaydı iced earth de olmazdı" beyanında bulunmasıyla şahsına duyduğum saygıyı iki katına çıkarmayı bilmiştir.
• muhte$em sag el. (bkz: muhtesem sol ayak)
• dünyanın geçinmesi en zor adamlarından biri(ymiş).. iced earth'ün devamlı eleman değiştirmesinin yegane sebebi.. son kurbanı james macdonough olan psikopat şahsiyet..
• matthew barlowun ayrılışından (#2914339) sonra aşağıdaki zikici açıklamayı yapmış insan..
  
  hello all,
  
  as you can see from matt's post a very difficult decision has been made.
  the events of 9-11 have affected us all in very different ways. i think it
  made most people step back, take a look at their lives and change their
  priorities. i certainly did and so did most of the people i know. in fact, i would bet
  that the whole reason i chose the theme of "the glorious burden" for the next
  cd was probably because my sub-conscious is dealing with what happened that
  day. i realize that some of you don't care about what happened, and actually
  that's your problem, but i know that most of you do. we have never been afraid
  to show our loyalty and love of country way before 9-11, and anyone who has
  paid attention knows that. the reason that i'm explaining all of this is so that
  you know how close iced earth came to being a memory. after the attacks i was
  also questioning what i had done with my life and if there was some way that i
  could help people and do something that really mattered instead of this
  "illusion" called the music business. when something this real and tragic happens
  it has a huge effect on guys like matt and i, who come from families who have
  served, and who have a fierce dedication to our republic.
  
  the music business is a big lie, plain and simple. it's an illusion that's
  marketed and sold. it's the big production, photos, videos, promotion and image
  building and all the other shit that makes you the fans think and feel a
  certain way about whatever band or style it is that you're into, and you don't even
  know it, that's the amazing thing. however, what happens behind the scenes in
  the real world is often very different from the fantasies that the fans
  create in their own minds about their favorite artists. fans base these fantasies
  on the images they are fed.
  
  the point to all of this is that it's pretty hard to stay positive and take
  it seriously when you figure out what a huge lie it is. after 9-11 i nearly
  dissolved the band because i thought that what i do with my band is pretty
  insignificant in the big picture, and it is. however, after months and months of
  very heavy thought i realized that it doesn't really matter that the music
  business is a big fucking lie because my songs are not, and my songs are the only
  reason that i do this. i've said it before, i don't care about the rock star or
  guitar hero bullshit, this thing called iced earth from the very beginning has
  been a vehicle for my songs and that's it. if some fans have created another
  "reality" about i.e. in their own minds, i can't help them with that, that's
  the "illusion" that's getting them. iced earth is and always has been my band
  and my vehicle to get my songs out, no matter the members that are involved.
  it's entertaining to see and hear some of things people come up with when they
  have absolutely no facts. some people get it and some don't and that's ok
  because in the end the only person that i need to please is me, and usually if i am
  pleased then the majority of the fans will be as well. i have no need or
  desire for iced earth to have fair weather fans. i realize that comments like this
  make people think i must be a real prick, and maybe they're right, but i know
  who i am and what i stand for and that scares some people.
  
  i hope that this long and wordy post will help you all make sense of the
  changes that are taking place.
  
  matt called me a few weeks before we started pre-production and said that he
  wanted to quit the band and pursue a career doing administrative work for the
  department of homeland security. he feels that because he is not a songwriter
  he'd have a more secure future and would be happier doing some good in the
  real world rather than living the illusion of something as shallow as a "rock
  star." i asked him to not do something he would live to regret, we have a new
  label and i've written by far the strongest and most compelling material ever and
  we basically have a new beginning. in hindsight i should not have pressured
  him into staying but there was no way i could have predicted what would happen,
  matt had already quit in his heart, yet out of loyalty he was willing to give
  it a shot. the recording of the vocals did not go smoothly. it was obvious to
  jim morris (producer) and me that something was very wrong. however, we
  pushed forward and jim felt that we may have to change the way we mixed the vocals
  but that we'd basically be ok. after tracking was done we proceeded with the
  mix. i was becoming more and more disturbed with the way things were sounding
  and by the time we started the mix on the 32 minute gettysburg (1863) epic i
  knew i had to make a serious decision. it was not a decision that i ever wanted
  to make; i always expected matt and i to jam together until we were grumpy old
  men.
  
  here's the not so glorious burden of being the guy who makes tough decisions:
  i decided to stop production and shelve the album until i find a new singer.
  matt's heart was not in it and it showed in his performance. i'm sure that's
  hard for some of you to believe but it's simply a fact. there are a lot of
  things you can do with today's technology to make a singer sound better but you
  can't add feeling with a computer. and we all know from past recordings that matt
  has never had a problem delivering feeling, so it was obvious that it was
  over and he just didn't have it in his heart to really feel the album.
  the glorious burden is without a doubt the best album i have ever written. it
  is the first time that i've written about such serious and important events.
  it's also the first time that i've written about something as near and dear to
  my heart as the history of our country. it probably sounds corny to some of
  you but i've often used the american revolution as inspiration to give me the
  strength to carry on in this constant uphill battle. my love and passion for
  the study of the civil war is being translated to music for the first time in
  the history of the band and that's what makes this album so special. i spent
  countless hours creating what is most definitely my masterpiece as a songwriter.
  this is not just another album about dark fantasy/sci-fi/horror material.
  after horror show, which is a good record but the personal touch is missing on a
  lot of it; i felt this would be the best way to bring that personal passion
  back into the music in a new and fresh way.
  
  so it really comes down to the fact that i still feel like i've got something
  to say as a song writer, so i'm going to keep going. i would have rather
  continued the way things were but i can't make someone want to do something, no
  one can. this has been a very hard decision, and a costly one, but i would
  rather not release an album at all than to have it haunt me for the rest of my life
  because i knew it wasn't the way it should be. also, i will carry on because
  i can't see flushing nearly 20 years of hard work down the toilet because a
  member has had a change of heart. i don't think real iced earth fans would want
  that either.
  
  i have spent some of the best times of my life with matt. we have been able
  to experience many things in our travels together and i hope he finds what he
  seeks for his future, i truly wish him the best for his life.
  
  and so another chapter in the struggle for iced earth and my love of metal
  begins. i have to say i feel great and completely energized and am very
  optimistic for our future. a strange thing considering the uncertainty that lies
  ahead, but if you know me, you know i love a challenge.
  
  the glorious burden will come out in all it's glory when i find the right guy
  to redo the vocals. if it takes 2 months, 6 months, a year; whatever it takes
  to do it right we will get it out the way it's meant to be. the true and
  dedicated fans should not be concerned that this is the end; it most definitely is
  not, before you know it the album will be out and it will be the best thing
  you've heard from iced earth.
  
  i hope most of you will understand the situation that i'm in and will be
  confident that i will carry on in the same i.e. tradition as i always have;
  quality, honesty and integrity...
  
  stay metal!
  
  jon schaffer
• 11 eylülden beri yaptığı amerikan propagandasıyla kafaları karıştırmış, bugün "ripper owens halford'dan 10 kat daha iyidir" lafını duymamla birlikte ise artık iyice tırlattığını düşünmemi sağlamış kişi.
• gitarı ve besteleri süper olan ama sese gelince sınıfta kalan fiziği ve saçları iç geçirten vokal.