Hey Everyone!
So, guess what? It’s decided and it’s happening. We’re making a new record. Oh yes, oh yes. Now, we still have a lot of decisions to make and so as I blog my way through the next couple months, I’m going to drop hints and details as I go, because we haven’t conclusively conceptualized the entire thing yet and I don’t want to make promises that I can’t keep. So here are the facts.
- We’ve been writing our faces off for a long time now, and we’ve got a metric ton of material that we’re stoked about.
- We’re still writing because that’s how we roll.
- We’ve been recording and demoing material for awhile now, and we’re hitting Blackbox Sound the first week in May to demo more… Demo Moore… Demi Moore.
- We’ve been talking to a very nice young man in the big city who may be interested in helping us with our recording by putting a producer hat on. A producer hat, by and by, looks pretty much like an old soup pot that Keith hot glued a letter “p” on. This could be a deal breaker should the nice young man from the big city elect not to sport the producer hat.
So those are the facts and we’re voting yes. (Death Cab reference, anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Oh, there was a Ferris Bueller’s Day Off reference! Anyone? Bueller?) I can’t promise any release dates, how many songs are going to be on the record, or anything like that, which is pretty bush league, I know. I just want to let the cat out of the bag a little bit so that you folks can get as excited about this summer as the five of us (plus our manager Dom and sound magician Kevin and everyone else on the StereoGoesStellar dream team) are. Also, by dropping little hints and details like I intend to do over the next couple months in these blogs, it will force you to struggle through my poor blogmanship. Bahaha… I’ve got you “write” where I want you. Get it? Because you “write” blogs, not “right” them. So yeah, you can expect several more months of that kind of rubbish.
But it’s summertime, so you should be excited anyways! To celebrate the summer, Kevin threw a barbeque at his cottage and the whole band minus Keith was in attendance plus many of StereoGoesStellar’s best friends. Keith was scaling a mountain to save a busload of orphans. He would have made it to the barbeque, but there was a bear he had to fight. It’s a whole thing, don’t worry about it. Erik recently bought a beautiful SLR camera with the intention of capturing some tour memories and other related band happenings, but he made this awesome video of Kevin’s barbeque which I’m completely head-over-heels in love with. It doesn’t really have anything to do with the band, granted, but I thought I’d post it for two reasons. First reason (I was going to say “firstly”, but that’s just unacceptable), this should put you in the mood for summer because it encapsulates everything that’s right about the summer; friends and not being stuck inside because of snow and cold. Second reason, I’m hoping this will encourage Erik to make more stop-frame videos like this one. Peep this!
And speaking of stop-frame animation, Mick informs me that our stop-frame animation video of Far Too Gone is nearly complete and we’ll be heading up to Toronto early in May for a number of reasons, but particularly of interest, to watch the finished product! And then we’ll pass that bad boy onto you! I’m very excited for this video I have to tell you. Christina and Danielle in Toronto have worked so hard on it, we can’t thank them enough!
And we actually have another video in the works right now too, but I shall save the details for another blog, on another day my friends. Mainly because I want to call Mick and get all the details before I go running my mouth.
I’ll see you good people soon, and hey, welcome to summer! Yes, I know it’s not “technically” summer, but Spring is rainy and far too inconsistent in temperature for my acknowledgement, so let’s just bypass it and go “write” to summer. Ahh! See that, I did it again! Such a clever Trevor.
Love,
// JerBear
