I’m back from South Africa and although I’ve technically been in the States for nearly 3 weeks, I feel like I’m only just know getting back into the swing of things.

As you know, we’re producing, recording, and engineering our newest album.  It’s all us…well, us and some friends…actually, us, some friends, and then Scott by himself in the wee hours of the morning comping and sound editing.

It’s wonderful to have complete control and all I can do is ask for your patience and understanding…it’s all us, and we’re taking our time

Here’s some footage, as well as some sounds…

Can you wait until Summer?

~bob

The first shows of 2012 are starting to roll in!  We’ll be once again playing a lot of colleges in the Northeast region, hopefully with a few notable club shows for the non-collegiate crowd to attend.  Stay tuned!

We have the rest of this weekend to schmooze with activity coordinators and try to be pushy enough that they book us, but not so pushy that they get weirded out. I think we’ve done both so far.

We have a booth that people visit…here’s a little tour:

Thanks to all those who have stopped by to say hello so far! Here’s to a successful 2012!

- cahill

Each year I make a trip to South Africa.  This year I’ll be gone for an entire month!!  Very exciting stuff.  I guess the only bad part is, I have to step away from the recording of our newest album.  Of course the studio we work in is Scott’s room, so I’m sure he’ll continue to try things while I’m gone…(actually, I had to make him promise he wouldn’t finish the album while I was away).

We decided that before I leave, we would try and get the song that we wrote for my niece as finished as possible.  I’m happy to say that it’s coming right along.  We’ve tracked drums, bass, and acoustics.  This last week we spent some time on the electric guitar.  With this particular song, we knew we wanted some kind of electric guitar sound, we just weren’t sure what kind…so we “noodled” around…

The funny thing is, we ended up nixing that entire idea and going with something much more subtle.

Now this particular tune, “Grace,” has a chorus in which the acoustics and drums drop out completely.  We both had an idea that the electric guitar should come in and break the silence.  We didn’t know how exactly, but we both heard a heavy, buzzing, distorted note that would ring through.  When you’re recording in your own studio and you have all the time in the world, you get to try all kinds of stuff.  If it doesn’t work, oh well, at least we tried.

Fortunately, we think this idea is going to work.  We’ll have to tweak it a little, but here’s us trying to discover that sound…

I’ll be gone soon, but starting in 2012, the yet-to-be-titled-do-it-yourself-cahill-album is going to be fantastic!

- bob

I am very very excited. But then again, I am always excited when this part arrives.

~ Scott

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!

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…