Tag: Amber Garvey
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backyard photo shoot
Joel and I have been working on some band photos in the backyard of our place in Santa Monica. We’ve found that what our tiny studio apartment lacks in size it makes up for in the quite useful creepiness of the wildly overgrown backyard. Here’s just a few outtakes. We’ll be posting the finished pictures…
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Vocal Session 2
Coming off some much needed rest we arrived at the studio on Wednesday to find we had been bumped from Studio 2 by what promises to be a very interesting collaboration between an American postmodern legend and a young female French vocalist. This left us in studio 3, which I will take any day of the…
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Vocal Session 1
I really can’t describe how excited I was when I got the call saying we could get into the studio for three straight days!!! I’d been on pins and needles for weeks as I prepared and anticipated further progress on the recording. The prospect of spending the whole weekend in the studio seemed too good…
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The Night Gremlins and the Live/Work Loft
A little over a week ago, Joel and I moved into an apartment where we hoped we would finally be able to make as much noise as we wanted, and thus turn up guitar amplifiers, play the drums, hold band rehearsal, and all such things necessary to having a rock band. When we signed the…
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ABOUT this blog
This blog is about what happened to Joel and I after we decided to move to Los Angeles and make a recording. Here you will find how it all got started… In May of 2008, Joel and I left our hometown of Green Bay, Wisconsin for Los Angeles. Our destination didn’t hold job prospects or…