Tag: Hollywood
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lurk in the shadows
Three or four years ago, not long after moving to Los Angeles, Joel and I hiked to the top of Griffith Park, the mountainous island of a park that rises out of the vast urban expanse of the city. Joel pointed out to me, as we walked in the coming twilight, that the park possesses…
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hope. desire. destruction.
Early this January, sometime after 3 a.m., alone in a rest stop bathroom, I walked along the wall of electric hand driers and, one by one, pressed each of the rusty metal buttons to turn each one on. A short minute later, when they had all shuddered to a stop, I did the same thing…
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Embrace the chaos.
The Violet Lights play their first show in over four months tonight, and I can’t deny I’ve been hoping that it will go amazingly…and perfectly. But, as usual, what’s real is much harder to control than I’d like. Just a few days ago, my keyboard basically stopped working, and when it will be ready to…
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miniature monster
For the past six weeks, Joel and I have been hard at work on our first music video for The Violet Lights. This being the case, our weekends and evenings continue to never be quite long enough for all that needs to be done. Sometimes amusing, other times frustrating, it seems that whatever project we…
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Live at The Viper Room
I got my greedy little hands on some awesome photos from our first ever show! Thanks so much to Ray Lundrigan from PhotoLinguist. The Violet Lights perform at The Viper Room…Billy McIntyre of The Violet Lights performing at The Viper Room…
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Hot Russian spies?
Some things went down on the recording this week…secret things. I suppose hot Russian spies weren’t really involved. They were all over the news when we were in the studio, though…and on the mind of our recording engineer.
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Ready or Not…
It’s time to start mixing! So Graham got us moved into studio 1 and started bringing up a mix. I joined him after fulfilling my personal assistant duties for the day and helped to fine tune some of the balances and make treatment decisions on several tracks. However when it came to the real “mixing”…
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Rock n Roll tracking done.
Rock n Roll mixing begins. Well hopefully it will begin soon. Below are some photos from our final tracking session at the SSR. I performed a few more vocal fixes as well as some guitar overdubs, while Amber got busy in the vocal room prettying up one of the numbers by adding a female voice. …
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FINALLY BACK IN THE STUDIO!
After a nearly five-month wait, on Tuesday Joel and I were able to get back into the studio to do some of the final tracking on the EP. Joel and I can’t agree on whether this recording just won’t die or it just doesn’t want to live, but in the end that’s just talk. The…