Do It Yourself

As you may know, we’ve started production on our 4th yet-to-be-named studio album.  But this time, it’s our OWN studio.  We did use the talents of Dennis Carroll at 6-Media to record our drums, but besides that, everything else on this record is going to be down in-home…a true do it yourself album (or as we label it, D.I.Y).

With the drums finished, we brought Steve into our studio to record bass.  Now that that’s done, everything is in place to begin tracking acoustic guitars, electric guitars, piano, cello, vocals and who knows what else.  This is a D.I.Y project, so we’re going to move at a relaxed pace and make sure everything goes EXACTLY as we want it to…and why not?  It’s our own studio!

We’re both VERY excited to get started and to see what we will create.

The other night we were listening to the drums, percussion, and bass tracks.  I was able to sneak in this video…enjoy!

Faneuil Hall Continues!

As we move into the second week of October, Bob and I are still going strong with Faneuil Hall. We had our best day of 2010 around this time last year, and it is starting to look like this wasn’t a fluke…

We played a full 2-hour set today in Faneuil, sold out of CD’s, and met a bunch of cool people (as well as some distant family). I think this was the most fun we have had in months. Attached is a pic I grabbed of Tall Heights playing their set directly after ours this afternoon.

Hello to all of our new listeners…

In Honor of the Sox

You know that this is Bob writing this blog. When asked about Tito Francona, Scott replied, “I don’t like Opera.”

Seeing as though the Red Sox suffered an EPIC collapse and managed to lose one of the greatest Red Sox coaches of all time, I thought it appropriate to post a video from a recent college performance.

We were at Amherst College a few weeks back and were asked to play Sweet Caroline…we obliged.

So long Tito, Scott will look for you at The Met.

~ Bob

Bass Tracking is DONE

The rhythm section for our upcoming album has been completed! Drums were tracked in early August, and this past weekend bassist and all-around-good-guy Steve Belleville came over to lay down some chops. He plowed through ten tunes in under two days time, and I think we really captured some excellent performances.

Next step is some comping of the bass and drums parts together, then start gearing up for what will be the long, creative, fun, and stressful undertaking that is acoustic guitars.

A couple pics attached below…

Absolutely HUGE Audience

Last weekend Bob and I stopped by Amherst College to play their annual “luau”…we thought it would be a few students hanging around drinking punch and wearing Hawaiian T-shirts. Little did we know that this was an absolute BENDER held every year on campus that is attended by (what appeared to be) every single student on campus and then some.

They rolled out caution tape.

They had a team of people working security.

And we were warned that it might get a bit “rowdy”.

“Rowdy” is an understatement. We played for about an hour and half, started off with mostly original tunes, and ultimately ended up hosting what became a glorified karaoke contest with a whole bunch of drunk students. We performed more poorly executed songs than I can ever remember playing before, and it was an ABSOLUTE BLAST.

I tried to grab a pic of the audience but unfortunately my iPhone didn’t seem to do the crowd justice…

College Season Arrives

It’s here again…with the arrival of September our performances in Faneuil Hall slow down a bit and the college shows start ramping up. We played our first college show of the month last night at the University of Maine in Orono. The crowd was great, particularly the sorority girls, and the event staff were probably some of the most accommodating we have ever worked with. Included below are a couple shots of the stage we played on and the subsequent theft of the spotlight by the ladies of Pi Beta Phi.

Don’t forget…last week is our last Faneuil Hall “Sounds of Summer” showcase at 7:30 and it has been moved from the West End to South Market #4.

Be there!

Scotty & Faneuil Hall Returns

In case you weren’t aware, Scott has been out galavanting across the country.  He has, however, arrived home and just in time for our Sounds of Summer gig Thursday night!  We’ll be echoing the halls of Faneuil Hall starting at 5:30pm.  It will be a great welcome back for Scott, who as we know, gets pretty scared when he’s in the Midwest…

See you Thursday!

New Eyes on Pandora

Our song “New Eyes” (the version from our At The Seams album) has been making the rounds on Pandora.  It seems every few days someone emails us or calls us and says..”Hey, New Eyes just came up on Pandora!”  As a result, the song is close behind “Until Then” as our most sold song on iTunes.  The fun part is hearing from new fans and people who are truly moved by the song…nothing beats that!  Then there’s the part where you’re searching YOUTUBE and you find that people have created videos to the song, displaying the lyrics and posting their love for the tune.  Here are two I recently found.  Thank you to YOUTUBE posters “semioticxcandy” and “sugarsyrop” for creating these videos…this is what it’s all about!

NACA Northeast 2011

Couple of quick updates…

1) Scott is somewhere out West and word is he got food poisoning. I’ll let him give you the details when he gets back.

2) As you saw from our last few blogs, we recorded ALL THE DRUMS for our new album. It’s an exciting new venture because this time around we’ll be producing, engineering, & recording everything in the Cahill Home Studio. Neither of us have drum recording experience so special thanks to Dennis @ 6Media AV for getting that part of the project taken care of. I have a bunch of clips from our days of recording there. I’ll post those soon!

3) Not sure if you know, but Scott and I tried VERY HARD to get picked this year in the NACA Northeast showcase. We brought in all the big guns: new press material, a new promo video. The hard work payed off because we got a slot! This is huge for us because being from the Northeast makes traveling to schools a hell of a lot easier!

Everyone loves videos, so here’s the promo video we made that helped get us in…

That is all…Happy August.

It Has Begun.

Sunday August 7, 2011.
Day One of recording our newest album.
We’re at 6media AV in Haverill, MA (Spot of where we recorded “At The Seams”) We set out to do 3 songs today. Not only did Max play three songs perfectly…he did 4. “Grace,” “Didn’t Know How,” “All I Really Want,” & “Tired Man.” Here are three video’s that capture the day…enjoy!

Too much fun!