Gettin' Ready For July Four

The boys and I are gearin' up for our show on July 4th at the Marblehead Festival of the Arts at Crocker Park and it has been a great time getting things ready. As I said in an earlier post, we are playing as a band under the name Carnival Hero, performing fun covers and well known classics as well as featuring a 5 song block from my music project, What To Keep & Let Go, that we have been working on for the last few months. Chad, too, will be singing a song from his solo music venture and him and I have a few collaboration songs we will be playing. On Sunday May 31st, we worked on the structure of our setlist as well as figured out what covers to perform that will be fun, original and get 'em all up 'n dancin! For the next month we'll be focusing mostly on the show but at the same time polishing up my album project to get ready for some successful recording sessions in the coming months.

Here's to a whole lot of music!

Breedlove Giving Me NO Love...

For some reason my Breedlove has been giving me so much grief with tuning. I definitely need to take it somewhere else for a setup by the time this is all said and done.

Here is some video and photos of my Stand acoustic session that was very unsuccessful thanks to this guitar. Bring on the Ovation! haha

Chad's In the End work, May 20, 2009

Ok! We're past May, Ask You is complete and released and all tributes to my mom were accomplished. Now we shall continue with the last half of the What To Keep & Let Go saga. haha "saga". I'm such a dork.

Here is Chad doin' his thing for In the End.

Welcome to 50 Pigeon Hill Road!

This was a very exciting moment for me as you can tell.

Setting up to record

Preparation is key and Chad came into the studio knowing exactly what he was doing for In the End. Props to him for all his hard work and dedication to his sound.

Chad Rockin' His Part

I believe he'll tell you this is his favorite song to play on the album. And you can definitely tell. It is in fact my LEAST favorite song to sing on the album and imagine it will take a few times to get it just right on all accounts. We're thinking of adding some strings in there somewhere...

5 takes?!

Chad was on FIRE! Dave and I both agreed that Chad's 3rd take was a keeper but he is a perfectionist (or just playing it safe) which are BOTH great qualities for this type of project and so he did a couple more. I think he was just having a blast being there. Good to have him!