Brian Bergeron

The last thing we need is another blog about the album preparation, but here it is! I had the last pre-production meeting with the rhythm section and Will at Jamspot on Thursday and it went well. Max and I will probably have one more firm rehearsal (I’d like to have 5 more but his schedule just doesn’t allow it…he’s one busy dude) and hopefully Steve can get in on it too. There’s nothing more to do now but record the damn album.

I still have prep to do on my part. I sing and it still hurts. I need to make sure I’m warmed up but I don’t want to wreck my vocals. With that being said, I’ve been at Faneuil Hall the last three days and it’s gone from good to bad to awesome and most recently, my voice held up pretty well. I’m not worried, I just have to monitor things.

I’ve been updating the budget and it’s sitting in at around $9000 right now. We were able to do away with a couple expenses as well as adding a couple more. The album sponsorship is at $500 now (thanks everyone!) and though I won’t be able to do much pushing of it while I’m in the studio, I hope to push it hard when we get out right up until the release of the album. I’ve been consolidating all of my savings to be able to pay off as much of the album as once but I think I’m going to be in  hefty amount of debt. Not that I won’t be able to pay it off, it just might take a few months. My friends from Cahill accrued a bunch of debt with their most recent album and they’ve been balancing and dealing with it but I’d rather not have it hanging over my head. It may not be the smartest way to deal with things because we’re in an age of debt, but all the same, I just don’t want to have to worry about it because I’m a one-man machine.

I’ve been telling friends that they’re invited into the studio. It sounds like we’re going to have a rotating group of people in to hang out and we want to make it as fun and as creatively nurturing as possible so if you want to come in and hang out and I know you enough where I don’t find you creepy (ha), drop me a line.

I just remembered, I still have a ton of stuff to sort out with the potential photographer (yikes), and there is work to be done before I head over to Faneuil Hall today.