Finally getting going again

Laid down the bass and rhythm guitar parts this week. This month has been particularly tough on getting anything done. Other commitments, travel, etc. and now I'm getting ready for another Traveler jam on Sunday. It's all good though! Next week is looking pretty clear so hopefully I'll be finished before the end of the month. If not, then not; no sense in compromising the music just to hit a deadline.

April Song Underway

Finally getting back in the studio after a couple weeks of doing things not musical. Lyrics for the new song are written and I think I have most of the parts worked out. Time to record!

Bandcamp!

No, not as geeky as that sounds. I've set up a bandcamp account to act as my primary distribution site. I'm still going to post the mp3s here but if you want to listen and get higher quality downloads, bandcamp will be the place to go.

Check it out at http://jdsampo.bandcamp.com

Gearing Up

OK, the song for April will be an original and is half written. Far enough along to start recording anyway. More words tend to come when the music starts going down, at least that's how it most often works for me. We'll see how it goes. Meanwhile, 'New Religion' has received a lot of kind words and very useful criticism. So thanks everyone who's listening for all that!

Song For March Posted!

OK, as I mentioned before the song for March is a cover. This month it's 'New Religion' by Duran Duran. I really like the original but I had a more rock and roll version spinning around in my head so here it is.

New Religion

We have vocals

Well, we now have vocals. They came out a lot better than I expected but then I have low expectations :-)
Special thanks to D for operating the buttons for me while I screeched in her ear. I love you sweetie!

Traveler Jam

Yesterday, Wayne and Dave from the old band and I got together at Dave's for a jam session. We played through about a dozen of our old songs. During the course of it we realized that the three of us hadn't played together in something like 17 years! It was pretty amazing how quickly some of these songs came back to us. After about an hour of dusting off the cobwebs the old synapses were firing and the muscle memory was starting to come back. Pretty cool. Anyway, this isn't the last time we'll be doing this and we're hoping to do something public in the Summer.