Studio Blog - July 31, 2006

Studio Blog 8

7/31/2006

More good news: As said in my last update, I was in the studio last week and laid down 6 guitar tracks for one song. Jeff and I were playing with some different sounds and found a GREAT rhythm guitar sound. I ended up using it on a couple different tracks. We definitely saved that one!

I’ll be back in the studio tomorrow night to do some more. As said previously, my goal is to have everything done instrumentally, except the lead guitar work, by the end of August. This will include ALL the electric, all the acoustic, and all the keyboards. At this point I believe I’ll be playing the keyboard on most of the tunes that require them. For the most part we’re just talking about strings. If there was anything intricate to be done I would more than likely have someone else do that. I really want to do as much of the instrumental work as I can but certainly not at the cost of compromising the quality of my CD.

Jimi Regan and Dave Foreback, the rhythm section extraordinaire, and I will be getting together quite a bit during the month of August. Schedules have been freed and cleared and opportunity is indeed knocking. The good part about an abundance of simply jamming is that I’m able to spend literally HOURS just playing, experimenting, and exploring. The three of us have been playing together for about 5 years now and know each other very well musically. We might do a cover and extend the guitar solo out for about 5 minutes or so. If I jump into a rabbit hole while I’m playing, they both jump in right behind me and know right when to jump out. This kind of jamming for literally hours on end really loosens up my fingers and helps my dexterity a lot. Being that the three of us are planning on playing a lot in August, I will wait until the end of August before I start laying down lead tracks. Think of it as going into training before a competition of some kind. Body builders do heavy and strict workouts when preparing for a competition in order to get themselves in the best shape they can be in for it. This is also my plan as well.

I’ll try to put a few audio tracks of some of the covers that we do onto the site in the near future. I hope soon to have some video of some tunes that we played at a recent gig.

Even More News: Dave, Jim, and I also have recently picked up a new singer. We just had a guy into the studio that we all liked and thought fit us very well. I’ll wait before I release too much information on him as I want to make sure that this is going to be a permanent thing. We just this summer started working with a new singer that we had really thought was going to work out but, as it turns out, did not. This guy that we just picked up might be the ticket. We go by the name of Dreamline. I will post updates on any upcoming gigs that we have and would love to see people come out to see us. We will be sliding some of my material into the set lists.