OK, now I can write a little more. It’s good to be back. I won’t write much about it but vacation was nice. I went to Atlantis with my family and the weather was awesome, it was EXTREMELY relaxing. It was discouraging because I wasn’t able to bring my guitar with me because of new airport regulations (would have been too expensive to take it with me…) so I listened to demos from the new CD a ton and visualized the album a ton. I then sent a long email to the band and to Will telling them what I was thinking about and Will was nice enough to send me back a one line answer:
“Aren’t you on vacation?”
It WAS vacation but I’m glad to be back. Like I said, we’re in the studio in one week and it’s consuming my mind for the most part. We’ve picked the songs, and we’re rehearsing a few times this week. We’ve selected tempos, hashed out arrangements and have done all of the preparation that we can do to make sure we’re in good shape. There are a couple of snags for next week that will iron themselves out (Steve and Max have a gig on Wednesday and I have a couple of classes to teach for my SAT prep job) but we’re almost there. There has been a tremendous amount of preparation and I couldn’t be happier.
Everything I’ve done before this album has led up to this. I’m almost asking people to forget about the recordings that we’ve done in the past because they won’t be for anything more than marveling at how much we’ve changed. The songs are tight (you’ll recognized half of them because we’re re-tracking a handful of songs), and the musicians are top-notch (It’s taken some posturing but Brian, Max, and Steve are the best collective of musicians that I’ve played with), and Will has really been a great supporter and in our corner.
This is making me sound cocky (maybe for the first time in my life for anyone who knows me…) but I have no doubt in my mind that this debut CD is going to be fantastic.
I can’t wait for things to come together. The CD won’t be released for 3 or 4 months but when it’s ready, I’ll be putting everything that I have behind it. This is it.
Now’s the time.
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