News Break... DEMOnS

I want to apologize for the two demos I posted about not being up still. My old hard drive was hit by lightning and it isn't easy to recover the data. Maybe the demo demons are just trying to hold me back. If and when they are recovered, I will post them ASAP.

But, I do have some good news. I've started laying down vocals for some new demos. A lot of new demos. I'm going through my entire library of songs and testing every single one. Some of these will never be heard by another human being. Most of these, in my humble opinion, are great songs. There are a few that I'm looking at selling to a publisher, the rest I'm keeping for myself. I'm living in Nashville now, so I'm smack dab in the middle of the music business. I've only written two country-ish songs, and only one of those is any good. Actually, I think it's very good. "Daydreams", the tentative title, is a definite candidate for country radio. Most of these demos will be vocal tracks only, as their purpose is to perserve the melodies. I've always just written my lyrics down, but with over 400 songs I don't always remember what tune I had with which words. A few of my songs are suited perfectly for the a cappella treatment, so those are the ones you'll probably be hearing. With the help of GarageBand I may be adding music to a handful of these tracks, but it won't be very many.

On a side note... I've been practicing with a new band, as yet unnamed, for the past week or so. I presented the songs I already had to the guys, and, while they like them, we all decided to do this band seperate and apart from the other projects I have going. In other words, we're starting fresh. Right now there are four of us; two guitarists, a pianist, and me. We're mulling over keeping the line up like that. I would be doing drums (programming really), bass, and whatever else is needed on the computer as well as handling lead vocals. We all can sing fairly well, so that adds some pretty cool dynamics to the sound. With modern technology I've got almost any sound we want right here on my laptop. We've been kicking around some song ideas and I'm really loving how the piano fits into the sound. Usually we've had one guy play an electric and the other play an acoustic. Be on the lookout for more news on that.

Later...