Wednesday, October 31, 2007

7. my getaway

saw "my getaway" play in NYC tonight. great show... they've written some nifty songs with adam richman as well... go here to listen

www.myspace.com/mygetaway

i'm going to start subbing at the high school again cuz i'm getting poor. greg just polished off a bag of thin mints. not much going on today at all... but we were wondering if every last name that ended with MAN (friedman, richman) is of jewish origin? can anybody help us out here?

bye. sean

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

6. things + webcam

hi all. steve here for the first time. im not going to say much cause im tired and i want to go home. sean is still in the city with our friend adam finishing up some demos. i get to hear the finished product for the first time tomorrow. im quite excited. im sure a lot of you are eager to hear new music. well we are eager to get back into the studio. some crucial decisions will be made by us over the next few weeks. hopefully by the end of next month we will be able to share some news with you. but this is the music industry so no guarantees. anyways.....off to bed for me. cant wait to share some new tunes with you guys..........until the next time.....

steve

PS We just bought this web cam tonight! Soon we are going to start streaming our blogs/acoustic sets live!!! -greg

Monday, October 29, 2007

5. Come on, come on

Today was rough. Definitely a little hung-over from last night but it was still worth it. Some how Sean managed to make it into the city (nyc) to record a demo with Adam Richman. We jammed the song all week and it's unreal. So our lawyer and good friend Daniel R Friedman, who likes to be referred to as "the show", called us this morning and asked us to record it asap. Apparently he will be meeting with another label tomorrow in NYC and they're expecting new music from us. Thus we're keeping our fingers crossed that the new song is what they're looking for. We'll keep you updated;)

Soon we're going to start searching for a new drummer. So if you happen to have anyone in mind, don't hesitate to let us know. We'll give more details shortly!

So I'm addicted to a bunch of websites that I check like 10 times a day. One of them is Break.com because their top 10 daily videos are always solid. Here are two funny ones from today that you need to watch...

http://www.break.com/index/trinity-football-15-laterals-miracle-play.html

http://www.break.com/index/hilarious-flight-attendant-routine.html

We'll be chillin at the Urban Outfitters on the lower east side of Manhattan tomorrow if anyone wants to say hello. Ok I'm out.

late
greg

ps i have this song stuck in my head... its called "Come on" check it

Sunday, October 28, 2007

4. Halloween Partiage

Yo,

Sean and I just got back from a halloween party and some bars. I was Scuba Steve and he was a dalmatian (3rd year in a row). It was a fun night. We're both going to be hurtin tomorrow so please dont call and wake us up.

We've been chatting with a bunch of the members on thedailychorus. It's fun. I recommend you check out that site www.thedailychorus.com

So I don't write much of the music (besides the bass parts) but I must say, Seans new creations are sounding amazing. I can't wait to hit the studio. A few of the tracks are demo'd out. Hopefully in the next week or so, we'll post them up and see what you all think...

Aight, it's 5:18am and I need to go to bed now or else I'll never see daylight tomorrow.

Happy Halloween Y'all
-Greg

Saturday, October 27, 2007

3. more writing and a reply

did a lot more writing today with adam... we finished all of the music for a song and we're finishing up the lyrics tomorrow. if we get back on the myspace top artist charts then we might post up one of our demos. we were booted from the charts a little while ago for embedding our player in one of our bulletins. all of our plays and profile views were also put back to 0. it was one of those things that you just look at and your heart drops and you're in awe of what the hell just happened. but i think they're letting us compete again. so if they do we'll give you guys another song to play... greg and i are going to a halloween party tomorrow. i'm a dalmation for the 3rd year in a row.

we took some heat today for yesterday's blog on thedailychorus.com. people were telling us that we were dumb for even thinking about a deal like that and that we were laying all of our cards out on the table. would it be better if we signed a full deal with a major and lost all control of every song we owned possibly never seeing radio and being shelved? THAT is what destroys careers. not only are we getting guaranteed radio play and money WHILE owning our entire 10 song album that we already created (that means when people hear our song on the radio and they go to buy other music from the band, they buy it directly from us!)... but also if they decide not to pick us up, we get full control of our band again to keep doing what we're doing in a changing industry. the fact that we do so well on our own makes this type of deal even sweeter. it guarantees that we can't be bought, put aside and never thought about again.

it's time for an egg and cheese. night night
sean

Friday, October 26, 2007

2. deal or no deal?

ok so here's our situation. We once had a deal with a major... for like 5 minutes... but majors do this funny thing where they dont really mean what they say, so that was gone, BUT the major still offered us some kind of "deal." It's called a singles deal. We've been negotiating it for the past few weeks now. What happens here is... the label pays us to own one of our songs (in this case "these are the nights") and agrees to put it to radio in the first quarter of 2008. If they like what's going on with us and the song and whatever else at the time, they have the option to follow through with the rest of the contract and pick us up as an artist. They get a certain amount of time to make this decision. If they decide against it, we walk away and we get our song back. Seems like a win/win kinda right? We would rerecord and remix the song right after we sign... Sooooo unless another label prez decides to jump in with a sweeter deal, this is the route we will be taking to further our band's career.

Adam (songwriter) is coming back over tomorrow for the weekend to write some more. We might post a demo of one of the first songs we wrote together in the near future.

I have a serious addiction to those Linden's cookies that come in packs of three. I'm thinking about jogging around the block but it's getting cold.

decisions decisions...
sean

Thursday, October 25, 2007

1. i'm writing

Ok there are three main characters in this blog... Steve, Greg, and Sean (that's me). There once was a Tom, but him and our band have mutually parted ways. sad i know... Today was a songwriting day. A songwriter by the name of Adam Richman (myspace.com/ar) came over to attempt to cowrite some music with me. We've written two songs in the past and it's been great. He knows more about music than I do so we try and combine his knowledge with my melody and create good things. Today was somewhat productive... ideas are flowing. You're probably wondering when the hell you're going to get some new music out of us. Well there's a lot of different scenarios that could take place in the coming months. We're in deep conversation with two major labels. I'll talk more about that tomorrow... but know that we have many great songs that i'm excited to let you hear. And i recently bought this Pumpkin butter stuff that i put on toasted 9 grain bread with some cinnamon. frickin amazing.

peace kids,
sean

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

My First Blog

I'm writing this to test out blogger and see what this crap looks like. it's 5:30 in the morning and i'm going to eat some eggs soon.

sean