It's been quite a while since the last entry - a lot has happened between posts. Bassman John moved to Milwaukee this summer and we have yet to find another bass player. However, we continue to move forward as best we can and have amassed plenty of new material. We are still focused on completing a CD of original songs asap. The challenge from this point forward is to finish the many song 'sketches' we have come up with so far - all have been recorded as rough demos. Among the backlog of new material: Enuff Is Enuff; Lies; Call Me; Midsummer Rain and Hold The Phone.We have talked with Mike Shoaf, a bass player and old friend of Bob's, about adding bass lines to a couple of our songs to help finish them up. We are focused on 2 songs in particular: Call Me and Enuff Is Enuff. Mike Shoaf has demo copies of both songs, so we expect to make this happen sometime within the next month or so. Mike Casey has stepped up to handle the vocals, although we still have thoughts of finding another vocalist to help out. We have a unique situation in that we are doing this strictly for the fun of it and as an outlet for our creativity and love of music, i.e., we are not interested in playing out on a regular basis or trying to make money, which we realize would involve more compromises than we are willing to make at this point. The downside of this is that it makes it that much harder to find other musicians with the same mindset and goals.
Meanwhile, we have completed the first 3 songs and put them 'in the can': Bad, Bad Man; Lightning and Rhythm Of The Radio (Favorite Position). We added the final touches and completed the final mixes ourselves using the Korg D888 recorder and Adobe Audition. We've learned a lot along the way about how difficult the whole recording/editing process is and know that we still have a lot to learn. All in all, we're pretty happy with the final results and are proud that we have come so far.
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