Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Almost six months into this “new chapter” of our band, I think we have learned quite a bit. Through the initial freeing feelings, on to the excited feelings, and quickly onto the confused feelings, frustration was bound to come. And it came. But before despair could take hold, we kicked it firmly in the nuts.
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There is something to be said about our process now… it’s crazy and maddening and yet I think it is incredibly effective. Not effective in the sense that we have cranked out songs, because we haven’t. But evidenced in the fact that we are playing stuff I believe other bands would consider gold… and then [...]
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it’s been about 5 or 6 practices now and we’re still doing good. 2 relatively complete songs, 1 still working, 1 idea to toy around with. probably not show-worthy yet in my opinion but it’ll come with time.
i wonder how you make it in the music world. i was on facebook randomly the other day [...]
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if you haven’t noticed by now we are going through a huge band restructuring. we were once, like the megazord, a mighty 5-piece ass kicking monster; now we have been separated and reduced to 3.
but even with 3 we are still doing a lot more than i thought was possible. nick’s got a crazy brain [...]
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
This new undertaking is pretty exciting. It’s only been a few days since we became a trio and we are already beginning to find new pathways of writing music. Some crazy/foolish/brilliant ideas have popped into our heads already:
Nick hooked up his new tape echo pedal to my old digital piano (that I never play). [...]
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Man, now we have three new song ideas cooking up… good stuff. And on our latest, Usman has brought some solid ideas which is unusual for us.
This is exciting, because it feels as if we are exploring without as many restrictions as we used to have. No squabbles yet, either.
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I found Ed O’Brien’s journal entries during Radiohead’s Kid A/Amnesiac sessions particularly helpful. Now I don’t feel so stupid. Such a great link.
http://www.greenplastic.com/coldstorage/articles/edsdiary/index.php
Writing songs as a group is not so easy, once you consider that there are minds that have different visions, and perhaps a multitude of versions sound good, but none are wholly [...]
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
hey guys! i finally figured out how to use this thing. look forward to some great writing from brian the bass guy.
brian the bass guy
Saturday, January 17, 2009
My car was broken into a couple hours ago. Seems like it was a quick smash and grab because they left all my guitar equipment sitting in the back (probably around $3,000 worth of stuff). Thankful for that.
Otherwise, I’m just getting tired of this kinda stuff.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Scratch vocals are done! Now for Dan and his groove action… This is probably going to be the most challenging part.
Today I was glad I am not terribly claustrophobic. I recorded my vocals in a room roughly 3′ x 4′. I imagine someday we will be laughing about these days… yes, [...]