Mike "Am-Rep" Hummel - (Personal Face Book page Post) Wednesday at 8:11pm
"Gabriel needs to hear from Jim's fans (that means YOU) that he needs to get VINYL out on the market - he is a metal kid & only knows CDs & downloads - tell him who you you are what you do - every voice he hears (along with an expression of love for his Dad's music) will be a positive thing - SILTBREEZE is there just waiting to help him out once he "gets it".....????"

Firstly MIKE HUMMEL

(any one else that feels the need), you should know where I come from!!!! I am not just some DUMB ASS "METAL KID"..... I DO plan on re-releasing ALL Iron Press material on VINYL!!!!!!!

Digital IS the future!!! And the future is NOW!!!!

I do realize that records have made a resurgence in being the "preferred" media format for Audio Files!!!! (as in collectors). I do believe in "tried and true" & "Proven" formats in audio duplication..... thus I am not clamoring for RE-RELEASE on CASSETTE or 8-Track Tape for that matter...... I am ACTUALLY OVER LOOKING CD as a viable option for these reasons

1) CD are a WASTE of money, B/c people only want portability and vitality of a format!!!! Thus RECORD is the better option there

2) CD's aren't cost effective enough to to nessitate the expense of paying out of pocket to only look at them sitting stagnate in my warehouse storage space when Mp3 is the way to go for DIGITAL Audio REPRODUCTION!!!!!

And I am not really crazy about OVER producing anything either.... I am more than willing to work with Siltbreeze. I have already been in contact with T.J. Lax...... just talked to him today as a matter of fact! Been talking to him.... how do you think that "Vertical Slit - Under the blood Red Lava Lamp" got the GREEN LIGHT? It didn't just happen BEHIND my back ..... UNLIKE SO MANY OTHER 'PROJECTS" that I said NO to, and you fucks just went and did ANY WAY!!!!!!!  I understand that your guys' hearts were in the "right" spot...... but no royalties?(In To the Ether"The Jim Shepard 'Tribute'", "Slit and Pre Slit - self titled", Skull Bank, V-3 'Last Album" all the torrents, and FREE downloads) Hmmmm, I am severely pissed still about that. And it has nothing to do with money, it is all about PRINCIPALS!!!!!!

You all were my father & Mothers FRIENDS & Colleagues..... and fans. It is just the same as breaking in to my house and stealing my own equipment..... there is no difference, staling is stealing PERIOD!!!!!

No to sound like Forest Gump here, but just for prosperity......

THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT!

Sincerily,
Gabriel Shepard &
FAMILY
IRON PRESS

So after much careful consideration. . . . .

The Iron Press is back and running again! My father had a record label that he used to produce his own music from and the Iron Press was it. Well after 13 years of nothing. Now things are on the move again. I am so tired of watching all these vultures pluck away at his bones and steal his music, it is time, NOW!

So for all the people that always were there with a beer and a dubbers for him.... and since decided that giving away his career was the best thing for his family, and fans....... SCREW YOU ALL!!!!

I know that there are different arrangements for various projects, and albums. But I never thought that giving the shit away was ever really an idea. You know it costs money to produce music (i.e. - strings, sticks, pic's, guitars, amps, tubes, drums, cymbals exc......so on), let alone the costs to get it to the masses in the forms of production of records, tape and CD!!!!

This stuff should be heard, but not for FREE in the form of torrents, bootlegs and piracy! I doubt that if Jim Shepard were standing here in the flesh that many of you would be doing it like that. Making a tape or burning a CD isn't as blatant as making a torrent or posting a FILESHARE link and just letting the world give a go at it.

I AM FED UP!!!!

So now as result, I am going to systematicly go through all mean unnecessary to get it all removed / taken down from the net. What is out there already in the ways / forms of piracy fine! You all had your turn, now it is me and mine's turn to do it, THE RIGHT WAY!!!!

Jim Shepard's LEGACY will live on, just not by the means of the past presidence of the foreverlowmanblog (YOU ARE A DOUCHE BAG, YOU RAT ASS HOLE!)

By all means, keep it alive in the forms of web posts on OFFICIAL web pages listed below, or make a "youtube" video up load of a show you were fortunate enough to be able to tape.... that stuff is useful, and there is even fewer of those than that of  actual copies of media put out by my father!

Iron Press

Jim Shepard OFFICIAL FB PAGE

V-3

Phantom Limb


Vertical Slit



Thanks,
Gabriel Shepard
C/o The Shepard Family