Updates -- recording and Amazon and garageband.com
Tomorrow night for practice Josh from boysetsfire (my brother) is joining us to work on pre-production on 3 of our songs. Then he's going to help us get studio time in the area to do a full on proper recording of those 3 songs. Good news, eh? We're excited about it. . .

On Amazon.com we're up to #1298, which is pretty darn good, but I think we can do better!! Keep downloading that stupid song. . .

We're up to #38 on the Indie/Lo Fi Chart, which I think is great. .. and we're still HOT ( of course you all knew that, right Snake Man, or whatever Ian called you?).


For Garageband.com, fanatic has 3 positive reviews, one negative -- and open my eyes has 2 positive reviews and 4 negatives. But overall the negatives might have some good feedback that will help us improve the song, this one especially gives me good things to think about.

Good ideas and performance, but doesn't seem to go anywh
Excellent production and good guitar work. The guitars are playing distinctly different figures, but blend really well. The single note (nylon string?) stuff that's introduced with the heavy reverb is very good. I really liked the pickup in the guitar arrangement around the three-minute mark.

The problem I had is that that's where the song, as a song, actually seems to get *good*. For the first few minutes, the song and the melody don't seem to go anywhere. I hesitate to use the word "boring," because I don't think that's totally accurate, and not what you were going for, but it's a little monotone. I kept expecting the vocalist to really go somewhere, but it wandered instead around a really narrow range of notes.

That last minute-and-a-half were really good, but the rest of the song just didn't do it for me. Also, the vocalist has some pretty deep harmonics to his voice, and in places I felt like the bass was interfering with his vocal

Since we've gotten some consistent feedback now on this song that maybe it takes too long to get to the "good part" -- almost all agree that the end is good, even if they didn't like the song, maybe we need to rearrange it a little to get there sooner and highlight it better. We'll work on that one.