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Jay was born in Connecticut. His father built atomic weapons [true story], and his mother was a school teacher. When he was about 13 he realized you can get a ton of chicks if you play an instrument. His choice was guitar.
"Somehow I took a wrong turn and wound up living in Atlanta for about 15 years," he notes. Jay played in a number of bands some of which had record deals.
"In the middle of that, I saw this Internet-thing coming and figured out how to make a web page for my band," Jay continues.
"Other bands asked me to make their web pages so I did it for them free. Then I'd get some crappy tree cutting services that would want a web page and I'd do that and charge a little money."
By 1995 Jay was getting introduced to people who were involved in porn.
"Fuck, yeah, I loved pornography," Jay says. "I was a big fan of jerking off. Porn in all of its mediums. I started doing that. I was kind of a low level employee and watched everything they were doing and they treated me like shit and never gave me a raise. And so I quit and started doing my own thing."
Within a few years Jay managed to become one of the biggest independent webmasters out there.
"Honestly, I still didn't believe all the money I was making," says Jay who got past high school. When he got the OC Cash offer about five years ago, he took it and moved to California.
"And I did drugs the whole time," he says. "I've been pretty much doing drugs non-stop since I was 13, drinking, doing hard drugs, weed. I'm 36 and I can do more now than I used to do. I have no problem with that."
Jay likens his capacity to Keith Richards', and I say the only drawback to that is one day getting up and looking in the mirror and seeing Keith Richards looking back.
"If you're 70 years and can fall out of a coconut trees in Fiji and be fine, it's okay," says Jay. "That's my story."
"Keith Richards is a big devotee of Nazi history," I tell Jay.
"I'm fascinated by Hitler," says Jay. "I don't agree with what he did but the fundamentals on which he was working were solid. He had style- he had the mustache. As a dictator, rock star kind of guy, he was a cool dude. But as to mass killing machines, he was a hack if you consider that Stalin killed 43 million people as to Hitler's paltry twelve or six. Then Mao Tse Tung did 53 million. But as one guy he made the whole world fall apart."
Jay figures now that he and Dan will be broadcasting Friday nights, the DUI task force should enjoy that.
Jay remembers a time about six years ago when Howard Stern began playing one of his band's songs. His group was called Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles.
"I know it was in 2001 because I did a stint in prison in 1999," Jay's saying. "We had three albums out and somehow never became a household name [hard to imagine].
"I think maybe our music was too heady," he thinks. "Sort of like Frank Zappa-y. On the surface it seems silly but it was highbrow humor."
Then Stern began playing this one song of theirs.
"It was a song we didn't even like- it was called Diarrhea," Jay continues.
"It was like every morning at seven my phone would be ringing off the hook. Fans would be calling me that Stern's playing this song. Holy shit, that was awesome. It went on for awhile and I wrote Stern an e-mail, I heard you were playing our stuff. If you ever want us to come on, we'll bring strippers. He read my e-mail on the air and I took that as an invitation.
"We called and they said when are you guys going to be in New York. We got to New York and the show airs six in the morning.
"I have this thing that I don't think I'm interesting unless I'm wasted," continues Jay. "Maybe I am but if I'm wasted I know I'll be doing something. I didn't want to be sober so we started drinking about 6 at night the day before and kept going."
Then a friend of Jay's gave him graham crackers doused in acid.
"About two or three in the morning we decided that the alcohol was tiring us out," Jay continues, "that if we wanted to do this thing right we should do the graham crackers. We got up to the studio and by this time I'm tripping my fucking nuts off."
Jay's band went on to receive the first Howard Stern music award.
"From that our album sales quadrupled and we sold like 12 CDs that week- we actually did sell a lot of CDs from that."
I wondered if Jay got more tail being a musician or whether being a pornographer.
"I never did any scenes because I wanted to have a normal sex life," he says. "Shit I already got laid once today. Actually it's better now. Playing in a heavy metal band, the majority of your audience is guys."
Dan made a point on his show the week before how girls in the industry don't get the fact that the Internet's now wielding the true power in porn.
"The Internet guys have taken over the business," I agree.
"That's true," replies Dan. "Having been doing DVDs for eight years, I see how most of the DVD-based companies are struggling and having a very hard time. A lot of them are going out of business and having a hard time making a transition to the Internet. Companies like Jay's are really taking over. Every producer there is is calling trying to get on to the Cash program."
Stoney Curtis and TT Boy are among the producers working with OC Cash.
Jay remembers when he first moved out here going to porn parties.
"All the DVD guys and the guys who shot for the studios would be on one side of the kitchen and we'd be on the other," he recalls. "They'd sort of laugh that I was 'a civilian'- not that I would need their validation. I didn't. Now I can barely brush these guys off my dick."
"And a lot of the girls who are talent have no comprehension," adds Dan.
"They still think they're shooting for boxcovers and that's what's important. They don't understand the way the business has transitioned."
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