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Originally Posted by philadrumphonic  Yeah we're doing 11 tracks. The stuff you heard on my myspace page is from our EP we cut last year. So we're adding 7 tracks to that and rerecording a few parts on the original stuff. We've already got an artist lined up for album art, with coresponding t-shirt and flyer designs too.
I know what you mean about the feeling that it's repetitive. But then again, everyone knows that's how jam sessions go. I'm pretty sure that's where every song on that album came from, a couple of bottles of brass monkey and the need for a warm up. Heh. I've jammed on the same piece for 30 minutes before. I was bored for 26 minutes of that. I'm guessing it's because I was the only guy in the group who was under 40 and didn't have a nice thick coating of bong residue around my brain. |
Good to hear about having enough material for a full album. As for using the songs from your EP and combining them with newer material, just make sure everything is levelled and sounds similar. I've had that happen to me before...where i went in to a studio, recorded 4 tracks...went back a few months later, recorded 5 more tracks. After recording everything, discovered that instruments were at different levels/tones and gave an unbalanced feel. Or maybe i'm just over analytical lol.
As for Beasties, i knew it was a jam sessions cd. thats fine and dandy...but a lot of that material, eventhough it would sound great jamming with your buddies, isn't in my opinion good enough to be released as an ALBUM. when jamming with my buddies sometimes i go off on the same drum beat for 10-15 mins because its a blast and sounds great! But when i record those and play them back, even if the quality is great and has a good beat/riff...isn't something i would put my name on & sell. Thats what i call 'milking it' lol. Especially an established, rich and successful, band like Beastie Boys. But some of my fav bands have released similar "albums" that i consider garbage or lackluster. Doesn't mean it wasn't fun to play (for them). Doesn't mean it couldn't sound good with proper restructuring and thought...but it isn't album material imo. maybe thats just me, im careful what i put my name on.