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Album 1 This one took a long-long time. The reason that it’s called “Life in The Making” is because the album and the artist (me) are still in the making. I’m still growing as an artist and my sound/songs are still evolving. I’ve had such a diverse upbringing that there’s so much more I want to do as a musician. I ran out of money (again) so I couldn’t take the recordings to the studio to re-record the vocals and get it mastered. It doesn’t matter now because it’s released. I’m glad the songs came out and I’m so satisfied with the final product. I had so much help on this album. The musicians that came in for the recording sessions where so patient with me as we worked on getting down the perfect take. LIFE IN THE MAKING was recorded on a digital 8-track recorder. That’s right. No computer programs involved whatsoever. Due to the limited resources I had, I was forced to be as creative as I could with 8 tracks. People still can’t believe that the album was recorded on an 8-track recorder. Oh, I lied. The drums for “The Dance” were recording and mixed down at Craig McGreary’s studio, but that’s it. The rest of the drums and instruments where all recorded on the 8-track recorder. The majority of instruments where recorded at my apartment in Vernon Hills. I was limited on mics so the drums for “This Way” and “The Loving Cup” were 2 mics (remember that Jesse?). I recorded the vocals and some of the bass licks when I got to Portland. Speaking of bass licks, I couldn’t find a bass player so I ended up playing all the bass lines for the record except on “The Dance” which was done by Paul Mitch the front man for Tripping Billies. The last song on the album is “Weather Girl”. It had to be hardest project on the album. I couldn’t find anyone to help me out with it so I ended up playing all the parts my self. I accidentally erased an important guitar track on the 8-track and had to re-do the whole thing all over again. I didn’t have drum sticks for the symbols I barrowed so I used a nickel out of my pocket to make sound. The song was new to me then and playing the guitar part was so frustrating. I’ve worked day and night on this project for more that a year now. I’ve sacrificed so many meals and time with friends. I’ve been obsessed on getting this project done and now it finally is. LIFE IN THE MAKING is the kind of album you can turn up in you car and sing obnoxiously loud to. I hope you like it. Album 2 Plan Be was not supposed to be released. Roger my producer and I sat for a few months and wrote the songs. Plan Be was a rough demo that was recorded at Roger’s house last summer to have an idea of what the songs would sound like for the big album. After finding out that funding was low, I decided to release the demos under the title, “Plan B” as a backup plan. The name eventually evolved into “Plan Be” because I just let the songs “be” as they where. Plan Be is real and in your face. The objective of those summer session recordings was to capture the essence of the songs without adding all the other mumbo jumbo to it. The songs where recorded with one or two takes. I just ran through them which is why they have a live performance feel to it. The actual recording process took just a few hours. (Ok we just had an earthquake as I’m writing this. Now back to Plan Be.) When I arrived in Portland I decided to get the CD professionally mastered in downtown recording studio. Between both the albums, people have responded so well to Plan Be. It’s the kind of album you want to sit and listen to when you have time to appreciate it for what it is. That’s all I have to say about that.
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