Music is still writing, on strings and in bleeding throats. Dealing with the world and personal experience still drive JD's creativity, and he will keep standing. A future goal would be to be able to help other authors also get up from the mat and back into the fight. www.amazon.com/stores/J.D.-...
Sadly, those dreams dwindled as did members. Never having given up on writing fiction, JD decided to focus his creative energy on the written word. Standing 8 Count Publications holds onto the notion of getting back up, shaking it off, and getting back into the fight.
With songs titled Where We Going To and In The Night Kitchen, Standing VIII Count had a sort of "eclecticore" sound combining a moody metal sound like Type O Negative and faster, poppier rock like the White Stripes (they played both Black No. 1 and Seven Nation Army in practice sessions).