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Time Keeps on Slipping

Friday, February 10th, 2012
Well - this whole drum thing really threw the timeline off.  But I should have tracks from Stephen and Beaver this week or next.  Troy had a slew of personal crap come up - and I told him not to worry about it for now.  Hopefully he'll be able to throw a track or two together - but we'll see. I keep forgetting to send the up to date demos to Mike and Heidi - but I'm going to do that today.  Maybe I'll post a couple here too. Read More

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It’ll Be Just Like Starting Over

Monday, January 30th, 2012
Right.  So - I sent emails to Troy (Iron and Wine, Brandy Carlisle, Lay Quiet Awhile, The Tantrums) and he's down with donating some drum tracks.  Also Stephen from Fire Tonight is down.  And also Beaver Bausch who is this freaking incredible drummer I played with back in high school a million years ago - who now plays in a sort of cuban fusion jazz thing in NYC and teaches music at queens college.  Anyway, all these guys are super-good.  And Stephen and Beaver have recording capabilities- which is a huge bonus.  So we'll see how it goes...  I'm pretty psyched that they're willing. The bummer is that even though Treadmill had a bunch of… Read More

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Tony Bails – Merry Xmas

Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Good lord.  Well - this I think marks the ending of the dramatic Tony/Angelo sub plot in the Snow White Snow epic story.  After some more email back and forth - which I am saving forever.  (I actually told Tony a few weeks ago that I'd gotten a publishing deal on them.) I'll most likely copy and paste them all here at some point down the road.  Anyway - the bottom line is that he called last night to say he "can't work with me anymore."  Let's chalk it up to administrative differences. So - that's bummer.  I feel like I could probably talk him out of it - just like with the last record.  But I'm not going to try this time.  Already wasted… Read More

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Totally Dead Line

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Well - this is collapsing into a pile of stupid.  Another deadline come and gone.  And while I still think our email banter is pretty funny - I'm honestly just pissed. More quotes from grandpa: "The sow arriving late to the slaughter gets the dull knife..." "The thing that comes last is not always dessert..." "An ant stuck in an hourglass is going nowhere fast..." Tony says that he was never good at self paced courses.  But I'm sure that the TLG goals are met in an appropriate fashion.  I get that Treadmill isn't a priority for anyone involved, but if it's not a priority - just say so and don't commit to things you can't deliver on. No one… Read More

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Lordy

Thursday, December 8th, 2011
This is taking too long.  It's not fair really - I mean - I spent about 4 months on the songs.  But - now that they're there - I'm impatient to get Tony squared away and in the studio.  Drum demos came for Dying in Style and Empty Pockets.  Looking forward to checking them out. And speaking of drums, my 8 year old daughter Malena has been asking about a drum set.  I used to play drums kind of seriously (I had a set at least) long ago - and I feel like she might be giving me an excuse to get back into it a little.  The problem is that the drums I would want to get are hard to find.  I want like a Rogers, or Fibes, or Leedy or an old Ludwig… Read More

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