No, We Weren't Kidding - Old Florida in the Studio

Well, after a couple of postponements, we finally got in the studio (aka Dave's house) this past Tuesday night. It was a good time and productive as well. We're focusing on drums at this point, and will flesh things out from there.

Let me tell you, playing to a click track is harder than you'd think.

Here are a few photos. 

Dave - the man with the plan

Dustin - bringin' it to the people 

Marcus - slicin' a piece o' groove steak (no idea what that means)

William - cannot count, sing, play and sit upright at the same time

Coming Together

Well, last night Dustin and I got together with "the band" - that is to say Marcus on the skins and another way back/high school pal, Dave Auvil, on bass. It was a lot of fun to go through the songs for this first album with a full band, and both Marcus and Dave brought some insights and flavors that gave each tune new possibilities, throwing out suggestions for auxiliary instruments and helping us tighten up a few loose corners.

Though the intent of this get together was to flesh out the songs for recording purposes, hearing everything with fuller arrangements really opened up the possibilities for maybe getting these songs up on a stage.

Dave has offered to record us at his home studio and we're heavily leaning towards this option right now. If this is the route we take, we should be laying down tracks in a couple of weeks with completion...well, as soon as possible.

Of course like a dummy I didn't get any pix or AV, but let me tell you - it was legendary.

Day of the Song

song of the day posted by dustin
im sure mr gladstone will share some of his music interests here in the near future!

Old Florida

Rehearsal

left - william / right - dustin...

hmmm

Dreams

Last night i dreamed. In that dream i wrote a complete song. I performed it in a live setting a few times in the dream. All day long i've been trying to pull that song from the depths of my consciousness.

Drummer in the House



We’re thrilled to have secured local pizzeria tycoon Marcus Haines to lay down drums and other percussive delights for the forthcoming album. We’ve both played with Marcus in various groups over the years, so we expect this to be an exciting dynamic to our present sound.



He’s got a copy of our demo and will be ready to start putting down tracks in the coming weeks. Until then, we’re considering getting started on a couple of tunes that may not need a full set as early as next week.



Of course you’ll be kept in the loop with all of this, so stay tuned and out of trouble.