Recording the demo
I'm slowly learning how things work.

Remember the Wind Up Exec who got our demo? He wants my brother to help us re-record it because then it will be more what he is looking for.

When it comes to to this Wind Up Exec, all he cares about are songs that will (or at least could) do well on the radio. Before a band can record an album, even when they are signed, they have to submit a 4-5 song demo to the label with those songs they think could be radio hits. This is the process that a certain major label band that I know of is going through right now for their next album. A person in the band actually told me that he knows of a band that has recorded and submitted 45 songs trying to get the label to greenlight their next album -- all without one being approved. They are still working on it. . . can you believe it?

If you listen to the 4 songs that this certain major label band that I know of (to remain nameless -- I just got in trouble for mentioning them by name) just recorded for this submission, (and I have them on my iPod, how lucky am I?) they are still sounding like this bands' songs, but they are very different then the other 6-8 songs that will make it onto the eventual album — they are much poppier and radio friendly.

This is what Wind Up SVP wanted. They had originally recorded 8 other songs, all of which Wind Up SVP turned down (well, one got changed a whole lot and is now one of the 4 radio potential songs), saying they would be ok for the album eventually, but they need to get some bonafide radio songs together.

Knowing this, this is why even though I love a song that we play like Wanderings, I don’t think we should lead with it on the demo. The same with some of our other acoustic stuff. I think (a new song that we're working on) "stop the bleeding" will be one of our best songs, but I wouldn’t put it on this demo for Wind Up.

These songs will be favorites among our fans -- treasures for those who appreciate our music. But they aren't the songs that will get us signed to a label that wants to sell large amounts of albums. I even think though that these songs could be hits after we're established, but they aren't songs that "break you" into radio play.

So this is why we're going to be putting our most "radio friendly" songs on this demo, and then also for good measure add some of our acoustic stuff to show our range and what we're capable of. . .

Thoughts?