Sorry about the missing posts...Tennis and Project

Wednesday:

We practiced and completed our final song.

Thursday:

We did research on all of the prices of CD's and CD cases as well as CD stickers (for the design) as well as approving our album art with Mr Komocki.

Friday:

Charlie at States for tennis...nothing was really doable.

Saturday:

Being optimistic we had hoped Charlie would still be at states so we planned on nothing.

BUT we did come up with a blues song that we would let Mr Farmer play lead guitar over as a kind of gift to him.

Sunday: We are going to record now

Practice and Facebook

I made a Facebook fan page for our band/music/senior project.

And more practice

Song 3 recorded

So we recorded our third song yesterday.  It is a funk song and we are happy with how it came out.

This week we are preparing all the supplies we need for making CD's and we are also recording one final song next weekend.  Practice..practice..practice.

Practice and Music Sites

We practiced some more for our two song recording session on Sunday. I think we are ready.

I also took the initiative and made band sites on BandCamp.com as well as MySpace.com.

anarchisthippiecounterculture.bandcamp.com

myspace.com/ahcc

They are currently empty, but once we have our music this will be the best way to get it out there.

Today The Design For The Album Cover Was Done

So, in order to come up with an album cover we first decided what we wanted depicted upon the cover.  It needs to be something with meaning, whether the actual item is important or if what it represents is important.  We figured it would be best to pick a person who personifies a message we would like to also spread.  Through some wikipedia-ing we stumbled across Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited for inventing the Internet.  Now first off, we are very thankful for the internet because it gives us access to music and this blog and other cool stuff, but also the idea and concept Berners-Lee represents.  He represents the creation of a revolution.  The Internet has changed the world, and to the very highest level, changing the world is a goal we possess.  Our selected band name is "Anarchist Hippie Counterculture" and the album title "More Than YOu Bargained For" comes from looking at this picture of Berners-Lee, and we thought "there is no way he knew what he had just done", hence the album name.  The actual art was done on Picnik and it is a picture of Tim Berners-Lee

Saturday and Sunday May 15th and 16th

On Saturday, like Friday, we finished working out our original song "Inamorata". We played several times until it ran smoothly and we could do it together easily.

On Sunday we went to Mr Farmer's house and we recorded it. Being more prepared than the week before it took half the time and the final product came out wonderfully.

Mr. Farmer is going to do some basic mixing and send us copies of our cover of "Train In Vain" as well as "Inamorata" which I will attempt to post to the blog.

Thursday May 13th

During the day today Charlie has his sectional tennis tournament (he made it to the semifinals which qualifies him for districts...woo!) and so during the day no practice was possible, but in the later hours the trio gathered to run the full original piece "Inamorata" which ran smoothly and successfully, which will be recorded this upcoming Sunday.