The kids had off last week so my attention was on them, (naturally). But now (thankfully) they are back in school and I can concentrate on what's really important, MY BLOG!
Speaking of which, here I am, typing away with not that much to report except the mundane; We've been working up some new material that sounds GREAT! By new I mean new to the current members of the band when in fact some of these songs date back to 1982. "Dead Ringer" from the yellow album is one and the boys have made it their own. "Almost in Tears", a song I wrote about five years ago is sounding great too. Scott has (as usual) come up with a melodic and catchy bass line for it and it all came together VERY FAST for a song that went from acoustic demo to full band in about two rehearsals. We rediscovered a few nuggets from 1980; "Tell Me" and Toy Soldier" both from our 1980 set!
There are many new songs demos (and by new, I mean new to the band) that we are sorting through and when the dust settles we should have enough material for two completely different sets (or enough to shake up our set at will). In fact! enough for another album!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Teaser for Tony's documentary
Tony Harding of THEM TV has been filming the band for well over a year now and has shown us snippits of film here and there, but finally he has a working "teaser" for the documentary which I am happy to present here...
Thursday, February 7, 2008
CD Baby and iTunes
We actually had to send CDBaby more disks cause they are actually selling the damn things! All three CD's are pretty much even (with the Yellow Album just slightly in the lead) however I noticed in the past few days that Now and Then is picking up steam, YAY!
On the other hand the band has been miscategorized on iTunes as COUNTRY! Wow! Talk about crossing genre lines! And to make matters worse, some bonehead over at Apple wrote a review for Buddy Collette's new JAZZ! CD and placed it on the Buddy Love Now and Then page! MASS CONFUSION ALL OVER THE PLACE! Hopefully these issues will be ironed out soon and in any case I'm just happy to have these things in the market and actually (there's that word again) being sold.
On the other hand the band has been miscategorized on iTunes as COUNTRY! Wow! Talk about crossing genre lines! And to make matters worse, some bonehead over at Apple wrote a review for Buddy Collette's new JAZZ! CD and placed it on the Buddy Love Now and Then page! MASS CONFUSION ALL OVER THE PLACE! Hopefully these issues will be ironed out soon and in any case I'm just happy to have these things in the market and actually (there's that word again) being sold.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Big Business
Our new CD "Now and Then" along with the reissued "Yellow Album" and "More!" are now on iTunes!!!! That gives them legitimacy, don't it? Funny how their distribution there as well as the physical, in your hand, distribution of these CD's by CD Baby all happen to coincide with our meeting with Maria this week, who may very well end up being our manager.
Seems we've come a long way in the short time since we started appearing last September. I think we're doing it the right way this time; not knocking our heads against the wall playing in dive bars and trying to hawk singles door to door, like we did 27 years ago. WE LEARNED FROM OUR MISTAKES!!! Hallelujah!
Seems we've come a long way in the short time since we started appearing last September. I think we're doing it the right way this time; not knocking our heads against the wall playing in dive bars and trying to hawk singles door to door, like we did 27 years ago. WE LEARNED FROM OUR MISTAKES!!! Hallelujah!
Monday, January 14, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Our new CD is officially for Sale on CD BABY!
"Now and Then", along with the newly reissued "More! Buddy Love" and the "Yellow Album" are ALL now available on the popular online store CD BABY. We already have these albums available for download through SNOCAP. iTunes (and other online downloadable stores) will be coming online in the next few weeks. Hopefully we'll start selling tons of stuff so we can all quit our day jobs!! (like that might happen...) Might as well aim high though. If you aim low you'll only land low, right?
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Happy New Year!
We had our "gig" (us showbiz types say gig instead of performance) last Saturday and it was good (not great) although the audience liked it and I guess that's all that matters. After our show we were met as we left the stage by an interesting woman who expressed interest (redundant?) in perhaps managing us. (that's a lot of "ifs") If so, (there's that word again) it would take a great burden off of everyone cause let's face it, musicians are not generally known for their business acumen are they? And me in particular, I already have a lot to think about regarding this "reunion"/"Rock Band" thing. Worrying about the next gig should not be one of them.
In any case, I'm guardedly excited at the prospect of actually having someone who knows what they are doing running the behind the scenes stuff. Let's hope it works out.
In any case, I'm guardedly excited at the prospect of actually having someone who knows what they are doing running the behind the scenes stuff. Let's hope it works out.
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