Recording and appearing?

Going into the studio in September to begin recording our FIRST RECORD (that's an old fashion term meaning CD to you youngsters). Not only that, but we have our first gig planned for September. Looks like September is gonna be a good month!

Joey's back from his tour

and the band reached a new high, bangin' out the set at last Thursday night's rehearsal with only a few bobbles (all from the newest songs) which we quickly ironed out. All in all, AWESOME for not having rehearsed in three weeks!

I Finally Feel Like We Are Actually Ready To Play In Front Of People.

Rough Cut?

Got the word from Tony that he and his editor actually have a rough cut of our "docu/mocku/rockumentary"! Can't wait to see it even though its not finished, how could it be since we haven't even appeared in public yet! and isn't that what the show is about; our journey from failure 27 years ago to the rock and roll idoltry which we hope to attain this time around?

Had another intimate rehearsal with Scott and Rich in his basement this week, which went well (even though it was short) and of course the three of us had fun, in between sorting out the frayed nerve endings of a very sensitive bass player who shall remain nameless...

Konichi-wa!~

Hello Japan! Been getting a TON of hits on this site from the mystical east, land of the rising sun. And they have been downloading mp3's like crazy! (someone finally figured that out). I hope you enjoy all the stuff you got FOR FREE, sometime soon I'm gonna start charging for it, so get it while the gettin's good!

The Next Day...

Our rehearsal last night was in a word, AWESOME! Tony was there to film it and luckily we were ON. Re-discovered yet another old Buddy Love song, "I Can't Get Up" which came together in as much time as it takes to hear it, fine tuned our other new songs, rearrange the set list (15 songs now!) just in time to say goodbye to Joey, who's going on a mini-tour with his "other" band (how dare he) so we won't have a full rehearsal again till August 12th. It's cool though cause we all agree we're almost (not quite) ready to appear.

VOX!

Got my Vox Buckingham back from the repair guy and it, like the Fender Twin (which he already lovingly restored), TOTALLY ROCKS! Can't wait to get the two working in tandem like I used to, one on either side of the drums (that's my buddy Rich, to you!). That sound in combination with my Gold Top was (and will be again) totally sumptuous (good word, huh?) and with that piece in place I NOW HAVE ALL OF MY ORIGINAL BUDDY LOVE EQUIPMENT READY TO GO (Talk about retro!)

Had rehearsal this past Sunday night at THE STUDIO on 30th St. I sorta liked it there, the techs were totally supportive and made sure everything sounded good except the ROOM was NOT shaped right for our purposes (I couldn't see or hear!) which was a problem. So we're rehearsing again tonight (twice in one week? unprecedented!) at SMASH, our old standby. Should be interesting...

Blogs in Blogs

Has it been a whole month since I posted here? Been crazy busy but is that a good excuse? In the meantime we've had two rehearsals; The first one (June 10th) we concentrated on tiny nit-picking details and at the last moment re-learned a Buddy Love "Classic" called Can't Hold On, which sounded AWESOME right outa the box!

The second one (last Thursday the 28th) was with Scott and Rich in his basement, where we perfected Can't Hold On, touched on a few other songs and then learned a brand new one (actually about three years old) called Idle Hands, which Scott has been wanting to do for months and finally got his wish. I guess living with the song on his own paid off for him (and us!) cause his bass line is remarkably flowing and musical (he says it's his best bass line EVER for any song /any band) and I can't wait to hear Joey sing it!

We all decided to up our rehearsal schedule to once a week (barring incidents and accidents) so we can get this show on the road by summer's end. I'm chomping at the bit...