First off a thanks to Tiana DeAngelis, a student at CHS and a gifted photographer. She took the above shot of Ben and many more are to follow in this blog entry! Thanks Tiana!
Well, what's new...hmm....Our album dropped last Thursday! BOOOOM! It was a over a year worth of recording and mixing and finally a product, a neatly shrink wrapped cd, bar code and everything (I was almost in a band once called "The Bar Code", but people hated the idea quite appropriately). I began selling the cds weeks ago, since our website was doing a pre-order. Many cds were shipped out the very first day to all the lucky fans that pre-ordered. The cd is currently available at our site and will soon be available at itunes and amazon.
I sold 30 or so out of my backpack on Friday, which was more than I expected to sell. That's indie style right there. My very awesome mom bought 6 or so for my whole family. My very awesome aunt also bought several. So far, those are the top sellers! The response thus far has been excellent. I can't say I wasn't nervous after spending over a year on a project. The songs are my passion and they each tell stories of different snapshots of time in my life. Most of the stories are true, but some of them might be a stretch, haha. To quote Chris Cornell, I just love "creating musical environments that I can sort of walk into." I am so blessed to have moved to Mass and met the wonderful group of guys I have around me in this band. We are also fortunate to have signed on with Zac Cataldo at Night Train Records, someone who put the band in high gear and worked his butt of for us 24/7. Two years ago, I had just moved here and didn't know a soul. If it wasn't for the glory of craigslist, I wouldn't have met any of these people. Just try to avoid the dating forum on there...as many of you have heard there are psychos lurking. So far, the musicianforum has been nothing but a positive networking environment, bringing musical soul mates together all in the name of rock n' roll.
I definitely need to send out a huge thanks to all my friends and fans. It wouldn't be possible without your support. Many of you have bought the album and you don't know how much that means to each of us. We put so much into this project and we hope to release many more albums in the future. Muchos Gracias!! (About all the spanish I know)
With Rocking,
Zac, Ben, Jeff, Justin and Jay
