In the studio - 23/10/06

Wrote the lyrics for Three Song Cutoff, and have the verses and chorus pretty much figured out. Bridge TBA...jfc. Even recorded some (very) temp vocals, complete with my daughter babbling in the background. She likes hanging out in the studio when I'm down there. Don't know which she likes playing with more, the box of Fisher Price Little People, or the box of computer audio cables...

Family illness update - surgery today, brighter days ahead.

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In the studio - 17/01/06

More fleshing out the new song Three Song Cutoff last night. Starting to sound pretty good, but the bridge and the get-out-of-the-bridge-and-back-into-the-song parts are still pretty clumsy. It'd probably be better if I actually had, say, a vocal melody in mind for that part! The whole thing is taking shape, though.

Little change in the family illness dept. More tests, more waiting.

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In the studio - 15/10/06

Was working in bits and pieces over the weekend re-recording guitar on a couple of older songs (one called Set Me Free, another called Walking the Dog), but ended up fleshing out a demo of a new song that so far sounds pretty darn cool. Call it "Three Song Cutoff" for now, because it's based on a loop I came up with earlier this summer after my other band, Original Six, was stopped three songs into a gig playing a stupid Rotary Club convention Monte Carlo night, because we were "too loud and playing music for a younger generation" (that band plays Tom Petty/Blue Rodeo-ish music, and that whole gig was insanely STUPID!! ARGGG!!!)

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, I even have a lyric idea and melody in my head for Three Song Cutoff, so maybe as I get chances over this week I can throw it together so I can hear it on my iPod and think about where to take the song.

As an aside, things have been a little crazy lately as there is a family illness that is causing quite a bit of concern. Things took a turn for the better on the weekend, so hopefully things will be sunnier soon, even as the weather outside is getting greyer and snowier...

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Did you know...

As we slowly record our way through a long-awaited new album (or two...), did you know you can buy our last album Karmaland on iTunes? Buy, download to your iPod/computer/other mp3 player and boogie!

Click here to go to Karmaland on the Apple iTunes music store.

Note to other bands - this is a great benefit of using CD Baby for as your online distributor. Ryan and I are both huge CD Baby fans. Check them out here.

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Depressing

I'm not normally a "the-world-is-a-horrible-place" person. In fact I'm the opposite, and I'm usually telling those people to cheer up, that life is, on balance, beautiful, and that the news on TV isn't always "bad".

Things sure do seem to suck right now though. The recent shootings in Pennsylvania are especially heartbreaking, but they also come on the back of other recent and tragic shooting spree/suicides in Montreal and across the States. Then there's the whole Afghanistan situation. Another month, another 10 flag-draped coffins carrying Canadian husbands/dads/sons/etc home. And during all of this our climate is still changing, Iraq is still a disaster on an incomprehensible scale, and five years later no one seems to really know what happened on 9-11.

Is life beautiful? Probably. Sure is a damn mess sometimes, though.

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p.s. On a lighter note, I just did a website for a buddy I work with who does voice-over work on the side. Check it out if you're curious: www.voxwerx.ca .