From 5 years to 2 weeks

After 5 years of obstacles and challenges, but always pressing forward, finally its come down to two weeks before we enter the studio.

Admittedly there's a small small voice telling me to stay on watch for anything that may derail this, but to that I say we're crossing the finish line one way or another. It's been set in motion. All parts are in play. As we have done the past 5 years we'll continue to work and press on towards our goals.

Glorious thing of it is, I'm not stressing about the outcome. I'm just SO GRATEFUL and happy to have this opportunity that I'm loving every step of the process. Even all those 5 years of obstacles just made this moment sweeter.

Definitely not getting ahead of myself trust. I'm still hitting the grindstone as always not taking anything for granted.

You gotta love the process. Do the best you can with what you have at the moment.

There's a whole lot of heart and life in these songs we've been playing. Even if some of their content is "taboo".

Looking forward to making this album with some great friends. Called in a few buddies that I've met in my time out here in LA. Crazy-talented people. There's not one person involved in this that I don't look up to and admire.

Excited!

We're making an album

There's a video of the morning I found out we nailed our Kickstarter. Happy, and overwhelmed I could care less that I hadn't shaved, eyes puffy with sleep, and that my hair looked like some rabid road kill. It had been minutes since several texts from good friends woke me up congratulating me, "congratulation you made it!". Since I was still basically asleep I could sense the urgency and excitement but thought to myself "what is haaaappening!!"

I'm still delirious from that news (by the way, that video will surface at some point). Since then we've been getting all parts into play to put this into action. I thought I had all the preproduction done, but apparently I didn't. We decided to retrack everything we had stated with about 4 years ago! This means we're reallocating funds to make it work and also researching studios. Also, what I didn't think would take as much time as it has has been working out contracts. Two of them to be exact: The contract between the band, and the contract with the producer.

You can bet I've spent hours upon hours researching percentages, rights, and typical deals. It's actually been very interesting, but I still cannot wait to get this done (and done well) and moving on to the actual recording process.

Step by step. Things are in motion so that is awesome!