As I sit here today my brain is being pulled into far too many different directions. Today is my only day off next week with my schedule changing into my more permanent one tomorrow. Tomorrow I begin my job as I was hired to do. After 9 weeks of training and doing work in other areas, I'll finally be taking calls to the specific department and customers that I'm supposed to do. I won't lie to say that I'm not a little nervous because I am, but I often catch myself and just remind myself that to take it one call at a time and that they're calling me for help, not vise versa. Make them work on your time and just do your best. It'll be ok. Now tell myself that tomorrow when I'm alone on the floor because my team is not scheduled over the weekend, but that's another story :)
Last night we had our first band practice after recording the album and it was a nice affirmation that we're all still on board and that even though I've been listening to these songs for the past few weeks track by track they still sound fresh and are fun to play. Things are slowly falling into place regarding this whole ordeal and I'm pretty excited about it. We've got our act together quite a bit better than last time and everything is coming together seemingly all at once, which is really nice. Its still a little bit nerve wracking to wonder if people are going to like our new songs or not, but also the excitement of getting the album done and getting to share it with other people. It baffles me that we're doing this again and recording yet another full length album of entirely new material. Zounds!
We're looking at having the songs mixed at Blue Chair studios, where we recorded our last EP, in a week so that'll be done. After that we're looking into getting the songs mastered out in TN, but we're not sure about it. It mostly comes down to $. Horrible horrible $. I for one am very excited about some of the extra stuff coming on this cd. Not only are there all new songs, a lot of which mean a great deal to me, but we've also got some fantastical guest stars on the cd as well. Mike is making a cameo as always, and we got Garrett Hunter back to record some things specifically for the album unlike the sample we used last time. I'm trying to get my friend Wesley of belair fame to hop on but it sadly doesn't look like its going to happen at this point. What I'm really really excited about however, is that I'm currently working with my good friend Ryan White of Birds of New York (formerly of Resident Hero) to sing some backing vocals on the album. Talk about a dream here.
I mentioned that these songs mean a great deal to me and they do just as all T3 songs have in some form or other. Mostly that they're something I took the time to dribble out from my brain and had talented people make them sound good. Sometimes they have a little bit of my personal life stuffed into them as well. More than half of the T3 songs of the past have dual meanings that really I don't talk about nor are very noticeable unless you know me really well or can figure it out. Like some kind of puzzle. There are less than subtle references to a lot more things in my life in these new songs like I've never dared to put them in before. And they're not the obvious ones either *cough like like letters cough* No, nearly every song on this new album has background in something that has effected me over the last two or so years. They're all still goofy and all have goofy themes and are about something silly. However, at the same time a lot of them have roots in something profound to me as well. Maybe one day I'll divulge those to people, but probably not because then it just makes this music depressing and I don't want that. I just want them to stay fun for everyone :)
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