J and B productions

At J and B productions, we pride ourselves in bringing the shows that everyone else was too scared to bring. Of course this was the past, but to this day, we still bring in shows that others will not.
We also pride ourselves in allowing the local bands of the surrounding areas (where the show is) open our big shows as much as possible. No one really realises it, but without local acts, no band would exist today. Whether it be Sepultura, Hatebreed, Slayer, Poison the Well, they all started as a LOCAL band and no one seems to understand that anymore in Lubbock.
You have to take pride in the local scene you have. Take a look around Lubbock, no matter what genre, theres a band for you. In the world of hardcore, you have Dead Money; Metalcore, Before The Aftermath; Thrash, Kill or Be Killed; punk, Falling Down Hurts; you cant forget Slo-bula and The Dead See. There are so many local bands and a lot of them never get mentioned. The problem with the Lubbock scene, too much exposure for some. They play too many shows and the scene gets burnt out on them.
Back to the point of this... J and B formed in Winter of the year 2002. Ideas came about and thoughts were jumbled up.Jason Melton and Brandon Stevens both had the same vision, it was just a matter of of other people seeing the vision.
What little things people do not realise, without the local scene, J and B would have never made it this far. People that have been here since before J and B Productions. Our sound engineer at most shows, Tommy Vernon, has been here since Day 1 and before. There are so many people that have contriubted in the past. The local scene always did what they could to bring people to shows and those bands, Melancholy, Chaotic, Syringe, Pardon the Silence, pijn Lust/of graves and gods, indrid cold project/a day to fall, texas death chamber, freak havik, etc. They made J and B productions as far as Lubbock went.
I.R.A.T.E. was the first band that we ever booked, the first band that ever gave J and B Prod a chance. They set the grounds for the future. Without I.R.A.T.E., we would never have booked the shows we have. After I.R.A.T.E. came No One and then following suit was Bleeding Through which was the break through J and B Prod needed. The show made history for the company and helped establish J and B as up and comers.
But it was not a cakewalk getting to where we are now. It took much time and effort and a lot of lost money to get where we are at. We are still in debt to financial backers, aka, family members. People that thinks its all fun and games, we will tell you first hand, no way. Its HARD WORK and DEDICATION. Just like being in a band, hard work.
With hard work came perks, but with perks came setbacks and let downs. But the year of 2007 so far has been triumphant and the World of music is treating J and B well this year. We hope to bring Lubbock and Odessa the best year of Music we possibly can and without you we would not be able to achieve this. So remember, you make J and B productions. So if you have any complaints, compliments or just wish to contact, we encourage you to do so. We appreciate your voice, and with J and B, your opnion matters.

As for the national acts, if you want a list of what acts we have brought to the Lubbock, TX and West TX areas, here is a list with a lot of the bands we have worked with: DevilDriver, Killswitch Engage, Dope, Bleeding Through (5x), Cannibal Corpse, All That Remains (2x), Walls of Jericho (5x), Bury Your Dead (5x), Throwdown (3x), Shadows Fall, 36 Crazyfists (3x), As I Lay Dying (2x), Himsa (3x), Nodes of Ranvier (4x), Terror (2x), Comeback Kid, Martyr AD (RIP), eighteen visions (3x : RIP), Dry Kill Logic, American Head Charge (5x), Hemlock (4x), IRATE (9x), No One (RIP), The Agony Scene (2x), Scars of Tomorrow (2x; RIP), A Dozen Furies (RIP), Still Remains (4x, RIP), The Red Chord (2x), If Hope Dies (3x), The JonBenet, At All Cost, From Autumn to Ashes (2x), Cry For Dawn, Full Blown Chaos (2x), Premonitions of War, Winter Solstice (2x : RIP), Vampire Mooose, Death By Stereo, August Burns Red (4x), Sinai Beach (3x), The Bled, Demiricous (2x), Scary Kids Scaring Kids (3x), Classic Crime, Fear Before the March of Flames, Mankind is Obsolete, Remembering Never (3x), Haste the Day (5x), Bane, Modern Life is War (2x), Dead to Fall (2x RIP), Solient Green, The Acacia Strain (4x), Bleed the Sky, Ill Nino, Godhead, RA, The Dreaming, Job For a Cowboy (3x), Daath (2x), Psyopus, See You Next Tuesday (2x), The Faceless (4x), Antagonist (3x), Kittie (2x), In This Moment, Sepultura, Sworn Enemy (3x), Kataklysm (2x), As Blood Runs Black (7x), Stick To Your Guns (3x). Too Pure To Die (3x), Diecast (2x), Suicide Silence (3x), Since The Flood (2x), Calico System (2x), Solidarity, Light this City (3x RIP), Animosity (3x), Beneath The Massacre (2x), The Sleeping, Alesana (2x), Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Necrophagist, Decapitated, Cattle Decapitaton, Cephalic Carnage, Arsis, Ion Dissonance (2x), The Warriors, First Blood (3x), Bloodlined Caligraphy, Despised Icon (2x), A Life Once Lost (2x), War of Ages, Unearth (2x), Darkest Hour, Belay My Last, Born of osiris (2x), Catherine (2x), through the eyes of the dead, Aiden, Schoolyard Heroes, Farewell to Freeway, Behemoth, carnifex, Arsonist Get All The Girls, Embrace The End, Broadcast The Nightmare, Gwen Stacy (2x), Secret and Whisper, The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel (3x), Misery Signals, mychildren my bride (2x), underneath the gun, Protest The Hero, Suffocation, Decrepit Birth, Dance Gavin Dance (3x), A Skylit Drive (2x), Closure In Moscow, This Or The Apocalypse, Pyscroptic, Napalm Death, Coliseum, Trap Them, Shai Hulud, Suffokate, Abacabb, For The Fallen Dreams (2x), thats a majority of them with more being added all the time.

To all of those that support J and B Prod and the Lubbock music scene, thank you. You are the people that make this work and worth-while. To the local bands who are working on getting there music out there, hit us up, we would love a chance to work with you and help you. We're all in it for the music, so why can't we all just work together and achieve the same goal?