All Systems Go! A Recap of The Last Two Months
A lot has happened in the last two months. Chee, Josh, and I have decided to start a band together based off of Josh’s solo stuff. We all felt that we meshed well together and the best way for all of us to achieve the success we are looking for was to establish a band. As soon as we decided to make this official it was time to decide if we wanted to keep it just “Josh David” or come up with a band name. Outside sources let it be known that coming up with a band name would be better for marketing purposes so we spent an entire day just brainstorming names and what we came up with was, “The Star Spangled Happy Hour Time, Featuring Josh David”. I’m kidding, we came up with “Culture Chemistry”. I think we liked this best because it was easy to say and remember and it uses alliteration which i’ve heard is a good thing.
With the band name now official it was time to start the ever important myspace page and facebook page. It has been a long time since i have operated a myspace page, it was fun remembering what did what; I think that’s the kind of stuff i missed about being in a band. Some stuff has changed as far as promoting bands, for instance when i was doing it back in the day (which was 3 years ago) it was mostly Myspace and Purevolume. Now people are using Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube; The times, they’re a changing. Once of the sites i found and enjoyed using was ilike. ilike is awesome because it’s a one stop shop for editing and update information on other sites like facebook, myspace, youtube, and twitter. This feature makes life soo much easier for people who are in bands and are lazy to go to 4 different websites to update content. With all that we have set up, Now all we need is to pay to get our myspace layout finished and we’ll feel like a real band!
This week we have gone into the studio with Dan Parker (engineer extrodanaire!) and recorded three songs (I’ll have video posted of this shortly, i just have to edit it and make it look nice for everyone!). I have to say that the songs are sounding really really good! and im not just saying that cuz im in the band. They sound like songs that I would listen to on my own which is a good sign. We should have the mixed product on monday and as soon as we get the final cut it will posted on the internets for you all to hear!
Our recent show went pretty well aside from a couple of hiccups but overall pretty good night. One of those hiccups was Josh’s guitar for the whole show. So What had happened was that he had just changed his guitar strings and i guess he forgot to stretch them out. After every single song the guitar would go out of tune, sometimes during the song. It didn’t just end there, on one song he forgot to change his capo so the guitars all sounded out of tune, luckily for us we caught it stopped playing to let him adjust and make a joke then get back in the song; Live and learn I guess, haha. You better believe we give josh a hard time about this as much as we can.
We played with a couple of awesome bands from out of town, one of them was Settle who are on epitaph records and the other are Friday Night Fever. Both bands were amazing and were extremely fun to watch. They were very professional and were all pretty nice and humble, which is nice to see in touring bands.
Shortly after our show we had found out about a band competition that would allow us to play in the Tempe Music Festival (which is a big outdoors music fest with huge bands headlining, sort of a poor man’s bamboozle). So we entered, not expecting much from it, we later find out that it was cancelled until next year, so we emailed the lady from the college times (a college newspaper) putting the competition on letting her know that we wanted out. We emailed her on three seperate occasions but we were still in so we just let it go and forgot about it. A couple of weeks later we get a message from Josh’s sister saying that the voting was ending and that we were winning. This confused us because we hadn’t told anyone about being in the competition so we were wondering how we were in the lead. Seeing that we were winning we decided to tell our friends about it to make sure that we won for sure and we did. I have to say we were pretty confused and thrilled about winning, especially considering how good the bands were that we were up against, especially boys and frogs, i rather enjoyed them! When the College times found out that we had won without hardly any promoting they decided to put us in article about the Tempe Music Fest being cancelled.
Since we won the first heat, we get to play a free show at the Tempe Marketplace (it’s kinda like downtown Disney) we are all pretty excited to play for our friends for free! if we win this we are a step closer to playing the Tempe Music Fest next year and get free money for school!
Alright that was a recap of the last 2 months, it’s a lot of writing but a lot of stuff has been going on, I couldn’t ask for more and im greatful for the stuff that is happening and the stuff that will happen.
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