Waltz and was generally listed as a salesman in the ensuing years. By the end of the decade Waltz was a traveling representative for a New York maker of furniture and fine goods, and all indications are that he was thriving. Sporting Life , January 23, , October 3, In he married Bessie Bell, the daughter of a local druggist, and the marriage produced two children, a son in and a daughter in By then he had also purchased stock in the local entry in the American Association one of the two major leagues at the time , although there is dispute as to how large of an investment this represented.
It appears that in December of Baltimore owner Harry Von der Horst decided to sell part of the team, and that Waltz and team manager Billy Barnie each bought minority interests. Rumors surfaced before the season that Waltz and Barnie had bought Von der Horst out. As the description suggests, he had assumed some important new responsibilities.
Sporting Life , November 6, Von der Horst decided to sit the conflict out, playing instead in a minor league, but when the Brooklyn entry in the American Association folded in August, he agreed to fill the void. When the season ended with the two established leagues surviving and the new one folding, Waltz was listed as one of the principles in The Baltimore Baseball and Exhibition Co. Sporting Life , November 1, But otherwise, he again stayed out of the limelight for most of the campaign, a season that saw the American Association and National League openly warring.
Then in September of , Waltz suddenly emerged as a major figure in the war. With rumors flying that the National League would force the American Association out of business, Waltz became one of the leaders of a counteroffensive. He went public with a scheme to place an American Association franchise in Chicago and directly challenge the National League in one of the most lucrative baseball markets. At the same time, he gave an interview to The Sporting News in which he indicated that the American Association planned to send a four-man delegation to negotiate with the National League as soon as the season ended.
I wanted to make an album that described their point of view, but also about longing for something more, wanting more. You're moving to Los Angeles, right? What made you want to do that? In Memphis, I don't think that I can make everything happen that I want to happen. Memphis is still my favorite city in the the entire world, though. In order to have access to the resources that I need to create the things that I want to create, I don't feel like I can do it all the way in Memphis. You said that some of the parts of making Monochrome weren't fun.
What parts of the process weren't fun? All the songs that made me uncomfortable to play in a room full of people, which was a lot of them. That, and then refining certain pieces, because I'm not the greatest singer in the world, and I'll be the first person to say that.
It limits how much I'm able to do with my voice. So, a lot of times we were stacking vocals, over and over and over again. Do you have a favorite song off the project? Everyone who I talk to about this album seems to be drawn to "Sportscar. I believe in that song to the moon, and that was like one of the first songs where I was like, "Yo, like, I'm a singer, for real.
Like y'all, ain't nobody say shit to me. I want to make a whole album like that song. I thought it was funny seeing you say that you need Jaden Smith to hear this album.
Is there any specific reason for that? Yo, if Jaden Smith is somehow like, on the internet and sees this, I need him to listen to the album because "Hope" was made with him in mind. I'm telling you, I need to work with Jaden Smith. A lot of what Monochrome is and what's going to come after it, a lot of what that is about I might be projecting.
But once again, Jaden Smith: if you happen to come across this one day, correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like a lot of these themes are things that he's experienced in his life. I'm going to make that the headline. I need him a listen to this, man. For a long time I struggled with that, because I'm a black kid from a nice neighborhood.
Knowing what you know now, and with everything you've been through, what would you tell Jon Waltz in ? I would say trust your instincts.
The most important thing I've learned in the past—related to music, but also unrelated—is to trust my instincts. Most of the time if I'm showing somebody a song and they don't think it's hot, but I think the shit is amazing, those are the songs that work. I made it for myself, and whoever is listening to me, trying to hear me out of my music, they will always receive those songs the best.
You think you're going to be releasing music more consistently now? I just feel like I've gotten a lot better at songwriting and I know myself well enough to navigate through songs in an honest way better than I ever have.
Are you going to be performing and touring around Monochrome? I'm not sure yet, but I want to. I used to not like performing but recently, I don't really get stage fright anymore.
For whatever reason, being on stage feels a lot more comfortable. I think maybe because I have supportive friends and a really supportive girlfriend, and I feel everybody kind of cheering me on.
It doesn't feel like I'm crazy for like trying to do music. Do you have anything else coming up that you can share? I don't want to be too premature about anything, but I already have a concept and a title for my next project. I know the sound that I'm going for. I feel like ideas connect a lot more easily and that naturally leads to more music and opportunities. So I'll just leave it at that.
What would you tell artists who might be questioning whether or not they want to do music or wondering how they can make it work? You gotta think about who you want to talk to, and how you want to reach them. One of the biggest things is throwing yourself into communities and holding each other together like glue, because that will naturally lead you to a bunch of opportunities. I think that's more important than the music industry.
I think just having genuine connections with people and not worrying about who do you need to sign to, or who do you have to send your demo to. You should just focus on whoever is in your neighborhood, or in your city, or who makes music like you, and reach out to those people and form genuine bonds. What do you want people to take away from Monochrome? If you listen to Monochrome once and you have to take away one thing, I think it's probably: don't be afraid of everything that makes you who you are.
I have friends who didn't come from nice neighborhoods, and friends who lived in multimillion-dollar mansions and shit like that. It's such a weird, divisive space to be in, to see two opposite ends of society and be connected with both ends of it.
I felt for a long time, I couldn't rap with rappers from my city, because I can't rap about the shit they rap about. I don't have the life experience that they got. But somehow, I meet a lot of these people from all walks of life, and it's like we all got the same end goal and it doesn't really change anything.
I think being a genuine person changes things, and you can't worry too much about how people perceive you or the things that you say. Was there ever a time when you were making songs that weren't genuine to you? For sure. I feel like 18 to 19 years old, I was making songs that have no reflection on who I am as a human being. There's a reason all those songs are off the internet now, because I don't want to be represented by any of that shit. I would just rather talk about stuff that means something to me.
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