We decided to do e.p.'s instead of singles.
That way we can do three or four songs that fit together ...like we have now, and make cool digipack artwork on mini discs.
Also there might be a new project folky/folk-rock/alt-country?
We'll see.
Oh yeah, I did a final mix of TFSA 3 "That's the Ticket!"
Now just have to listen if things are coolio!
Monday, March 12, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
A Discography Of Sorts
Greg and I (David) have recorded a lot of stuff...here's the discography in order...kind of?
On most things Greg plays guitar and/or bass
On most things David sings and plays drums
SOMETIMES GOD HIDES (1996-97) - this was acoustic guitar, cello, percussion and vocals. The cool thing about this project was that Greg and I both sang lead vocals. One self titled album...only on cassette.
MY OLDEST FRIEND (1997-2001) - an instrumental trio with our friend Brandon. It was very heavy on the math rock odd time signature stuff. A co-worker of Greg's said it sounded like we were trying to impress ourselves, which we were! Two albums on cd. "My Oldest Friend is dead" and "Stop"
A THOUSAND SUNS (2005-2006) - This was just Greg and I for the first album (the second album ended up being Waves Of Mercury). It was basically the project we tried to start in 1996 with other people, but failed. This was our European metal influences coming out...but not sounding much like any of them. One self titled album on cd.
WAVES OF MERCURY (2006-maybe another cd?) - This was when Brandon joined and we changed the name because of all the other "Thousand Sun" bands! It picks up where A Thousand Suns left off, but was more of Brandon and I writing, but Greg had a huge part in arranging songs. Influences of black metal and King Crimson started to show up in the first album "The Great Darkness" and our challenge to write an album with very little distorted guitar was how "The Letters" came about. Sadly, by the time we started to write "The Letters", Brandon had passed. We will always miss him and his fantastic guitar playing. Two albums on cd "The Great Darkness" and "The Letters"
GRANT BROTHERS MOVING COMPANY (2007-2008) - This was a project that was Glen Wadie songs. I was playing drums and recording the album with Glen. It's a very Springsteen/Soul Asylum-ish album. We needed a good bass player, and asked Greg if he was interested in recording bass. He had heard a few songs and said "I'm in!"
One album on cd...that was never "officially" finished, but I mixed a version, made artwork and about 20 copies and called it by it's working title "A Bit of what is Broken". Glen still has a live (and I assume recording) version of the band going.
THE FAIRLY SECRET ARMY (2011-Present-Future!) - Our project that (sometimes...actually very rarely, except the first album, but then life bogged us down a bit) follows the idea of writing a song on Monday, recording the drums, bass & guitars that night, and have the vocals recorded by the next Monday...so we can write a new song! The first 8-10 weeks worked just like that...but not so much after. But as of March 3rd 2012, we have two finished albums,a T-Shirt, the third album at 90% finished, and three singles in the works. Two finished albums on cd. "Keep it secret, Keep it safe" and "We miss the Cold War"...and coming soon..."That's the Ticket", "Tom Bombadil" single, and two yet-to-be-named singles.
BLOOD OF THE EARTH (2011-Present) - a post-black-metal-emo-shoegazer project started by Jeff Philips and I. We needed bass and Greg said "I'm In!" This four song e.p. has just had all the bass parts finished this week. Jeff plays guitar, I play drums, Greg plays bass. Both Jeff and I are doing lead vocals. We do plan on both of us doing a mix of the album, so there will be two of each of the four songs to chose from. "Blood of the Earth" was originally supposed to be Corey (lyrics for Waves of Mercury "The Great Darkness") and I, but Jeff liked the name, and I agreed that as long as I could do another Blood of the Earth projects on my own and us that name, it fit this project perfect.
On most things Greg plays guitar and/or bass
On most things David sings and plays drums
SOMETIMES GOD HIDES (1996-97) - this was acoustic guitar, cello, percussion and vocals. The cool thing about this project was that Greg and I both sang lead vocals. One self titled album...only on cassette.
MY OLDEST FRIEND (1997-2001) - an instrumental trio with our friend Brandon. It was very heavy on the math rock odd time signature stuff. A co-worker of Greg's said it sounded like we were trying to impress ourselves, which we were! Two albums on cd. "My Oldest Friend is dead" and "Stop"
A THOUSAND SUNS (2005-2006) - This was just Greg and I for the first album (the second album ended up being Waves Of Mercury). It was basically the project we tried to start in 1996 with other people, but failed. This was our European metal influences coming out...but not sounding much like any of them. One self titled album on cd.
WAVES OF MERCURY (2006-maybe another cd?) - This was when Brandon joined and we changed the name because of all the other "Thousand Sun" bands! It picks up where A Thousand Suns left off, but was more of Brandon and I writing, but Greg had a huge part in arranging songs. Influences of black metal and King Crimson started to show up in the first album "The Great Darkness" and our challenge to write an album with very little distorted guitar was how "The Letters" came about. Sadly, by the time we started to write "The Letters", Brandon had passed. We will always miss him and his fantastic guitar playing. Two albums on cd "The Great Darkness" and "The Letters"
GRANT BROTHERS MOVING COMPANY (2007-2008) - This was a project that was Glen Wadie songs. I was playing drums and recording the album with Glen. It's a very Springsteen/Soul Asylum-ish album. We needed a good bass player, and asked Greg if he was interested in recording bass. He had heard a few songs and said "I'm in!"
One album on cd...that was never "officially" finished, but I mixed a version, made artwork and about 20 copies and called it by it's working title "A Bit of what is Broken". Glen still has a live (and I assume recording) version of the band going.
THE FAIRLY SECRET ARMY (2011-Present-Future!) - Our project that (sometimes...actually very rarely, except the first album, but then life bogged us down a bit) follows the idea of writing a song on Monday, recording the drums, bass & guitars that night, and have the vocals recorded by the next Monday...so we can write a new song! The first 8-10 weeks worked just like that...but not so much after. But as of March 3rd 2012, we have two finished albums,a T-Shirt, the third album at 90% finished, and three singles in the works. Two finished albums on cd. "Keep it secret, Keep it safe" and "We miss the Cold War"...and coming soon..."That's the Ticket", "Tom Bombadil" single, and two yet-to-be-named singles.
BLOOD OF THE EARTH (2011-Present) - a post-black-metal-emo-shoegazer project started by Jeff Philips and I. We needed bass and Greg said "I'm In!" This four song e.p. has just had all the bass parts finished this week. Jeff plays guitar, I play drums, Greg plays bass. Both Jeff and I are doing lead vocals. We do plan on both of us doing a mix of the album, so there will be two of each of the four songs to chose from. "Blood of the Earth" was originally supposed to be Corey (lyrics for Waves of Mercury "The Great Darkness") and I, but Jeff liked the name, and I agreed that as long as I could do another Blood of the Earth projects on my own and us that name, it fit this project perfect.
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