It's been a hectic couple of weeks...
My wife took a week long vacation to the hospital for surgery & recovery. Also, my little brother is getting deployed to Afghanistan and I'm heading to North Carolina to visit with him before he leaves.
As a result, the mix for "Dear Reason" still isn't done & I haven't made any progress on a video treatment for it or a live track to allow me to play songs live by myself.
Some stuff is moving along, though. Chemcoma played in Elkhart on Saturday night (4/23) and we showed off a few new songs that we've been working into the set. So far the new stuff consists of meaner versions of 80s tunes. Seriously, who covers Eddie Money? We do.
I've been transcribing songs this week to beef up our acoustic set. They are some meaner, hard rock songs that we've toned down.
You should probably come to a show & see this. :-)
The shows calendar at www.chrisjuneind.com will have all of the details on upcoming dates.
In other news, Chemcoma got a draft back of the "Something to Die for" video over the weekend. We made some suggestions, Adam did some more tweaking, & we have *what we believe to be* the final version of the video back now. Adam has to add some titles, we have to pay him, & then this thing will go live for everyone to check out. I might be partial, but I think it looks pretty cool. Hopefully next week's blog will have a link for you.
That's all for now. I'm off to North Carolina.
See you next week!
This is the source for the inside scoop on Chris June IND; including writing, recording, performing, etc. You'll get more dirt here than tweets & status updates. Typically, new blog entries get posted every Monday and whenever something too interesting to not write about happens. I’ll try to keep my entries short-winded and light-hearted. Maybe I can make them funny. We’ll see.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
04/11/11
Hey all!
After a week of more hard work, I'm a bit closer to having the mix of "Dear Reason" done. As of now I'm having an issue with some clipping during the guitar solo. It's not the tracks or overall volume. Maybe it's an EQ thing. As soon as I can get that resolved, I should be ready to let it fly on the internet & focus on the video for it.
This weekend Chemcoma will be firing up for, what I hope to be, another relentless string of shows. We've been prepping to add a significant amount of new songs to the set. A good portion of my week will be spent transcribing more guitar & bass lines, building live tracks, making sure Cody & I are on the same page with what we're playing, and practicing singing and playing my parts. In other Chemcoma news, Adam Shewmaker appears to have about half of the "Something to Die for" video edited together. He sent us a rough cut over the weekend. I'm digging it.
I usually don't say much, if anything, about my side biz of teaching guitar lessons, but I'd like to mention my gratitude to Logan and his parents for giving me the opportunity to be his guitar/music teacher. Last week Logan joined Ashleigh, Tyler, Kaitlin, Valeska, and Dakota in our combined investment in the future of the Lafayette music community and, hopefully, guitar awesomeness.
In addition to what I mentioned above, I'll be spending the rest of the week working on promo with Guillermo (owner of Rancho Real) for Chemcoma's Cinco de Mayo show and scheduling more video shoots with sponsors of the Taste of Tippecanoe (btw, this year's Taste is going to be insane! www.tasteoftippecanoe.org). Also, I'll be padding my music account by helping run sound at the Knickerbocker on Friday night.
There's my weekly update, on time. I'm glad that you're still stopping by. Look out Crawfordsville, me & the Dishastercaster will be more than ready to blow off some steam on Saturday night at the Lew.
PS: Thanks to the Cocaine Wolves, American Speedway, and The Mound Builders for putting on an epic rock show over the weekend. Please check these cats out if you're not familiar.
Over and out.
After a week of more hard work, I'm a bit closer to having the mix of "Dear Reason" done. As of now I'm having an issue with some clipping during the guitar solo. It's not the tracks or overall volume. Maybe it's an EQ thing. As soon as I can get that resolved, I should be ready to let it fly on the internet & focus on the video for it.
This weekend Chemcoma will be firing up for, what I hope to be, another relentless string of shows. We've been prepping to add a significant amount of new songs to the set. A good portion of my week will be spent transcribing more guitar & bass lines, building live tracks, making sure Cody & I are on the same page with what we're playing, and practicing singing and playing my parts. In other Chemcoma news, Adam Shewmaker appears to have about half of the "Something to Die for" video edited together. He sent us a rough cut over the weekend. I'm digging it.
I usually don't say much, if anything, about my side biz of teaching guitar lessons, but I'd like to mention my gratitude to Logan and his parents for giving me the opportunity to be his guitar/music teacher. Last week Logan joined Ashleigh, Tyler, Kaitlin, Valeska, and Dakota in our combined investment in the future of the Lafayette music community and, hopefully, guitar awesomeness.
In addition to what I mentioned above, I'll be spending the rest of the week working on promo with Guillermo (owner of Rancho Real) for Chemcoma's Cinco de Mayo show and scheduling more video shoots with sponsors of the Taste of Tippecanoe (btw, this year's Taste is going to be insane! www.tasteoftippecanoe.org). Also, I'll be padding my music account by helping run sound at the Knickerbocker on Friday night.
There's my weekly update, on time. I'm glad that you're still stopping by. Look out Crawfordsville, me & the Dishastercaster will be more than ready to blow off some steam on Saturday night at the Lew.
PS: Thanks to the Cocaine Wolves, American Speedway, and The Mound Builders for putting on an epic rock show over the weekend. Please check these cats out if you're not familiar.
Over and out.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
04/06/11
Well, I've been spending some late nights in the studio & I finally feel like I'm really close to having the mix & master of "Dear Reason" done. I've been working on artwork & brainstorming on a video treatment on breaks while getting some ear rest. I think the release is only going to be a couple or few weeks out.
As much fun as I had playing funny songs at my last solo show, I'm going to start building a track after the "Dear Reason" release so I can start playing my serious songs live. It'll just be me, an acoustic guitar, and probably some piano parts playing counter lines in the background. It would be a lot easier if I didn't have to incorporate the electronic element, but some of these songs just don't sound right without the extra parts. Plus, I want to play my guitar solos. :-)
The Frankfort Times ran an article on the 6th about my music endeavors. They gave me space on the bottom 3rd of the front page with the article continuing on another page! The story ran in response to the press release I sent them for the "Settling" release. Unfortunately, they didn't mention the song, Chris June IND, or ChrisJuneIND.com at all and misspelled Chemcoma. Regardless, I'm happy for the attention and maybe next time readers will be given more direction to what I'm doing.
Chemcoma has been hard at work learning some new songs to start mixing into the set over the next month. The songs reflect what we've been known to do cover-wise: Modern Rock songs that we dig and Classic Rock songs that we've updated. We're also anxiously awaiting getting back the "Something to Die for" video.
Thanks for stopping by again this week. Please direct any comments or suggestions through the contact form on ChrisJuneIND.com.
Over and out
As much fun as I had playing funny songs at my last solo show, I'm going to start building a track after the "Dear Reason" release so I can start playing my serious songs live. It'll just be me, an acoustic guitar, and probably some piano parts playing counter lines in the background. It would be a lot easier if I didn't have to incorporate the electronic element, but some of these songs just don't sound right without the extra parts. Plus, I want to play my guitar solos. :-)
The Frankfort Times ran an article on the 6th about my music endeavors. They gave me space on the bottom 3rd of the front page with the article continuing on another page! The story ran in response to the press release I sent them for the "Settling" release. Unfortunately, they didn't mention the song, Chris June IND, or ChrisJuneIND.com at all and misspelled Chemcoma. Regardless, I'm happy for the attention and maybe next time readers will be given more direction to what I'm doing.
Chemcoma has been hard at work learning some new songs to start mixing into the set over the next month. The songs reflect what we've been known to do cover-wise: Modern Rock songs that we dig and Classic Rock songs that we've updated. We're also anxiously awaiting getting back the "Something to Die for" video.
Thanks for stopping by again this week. Please direct any comments or suggestions through the contact form on ChrisJuneIND.com.
Over and out
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