fred_journeyman wrote:tragchk wrote:Melissa wrote:does it really take to make a new album once the writing is done & the recording & all actually starts?
Seems like some are done in just a few months, & some take a year or more...or YEARS, lol. Just curious, thanks!

Practice: Almost a year ~ so that all of our songs were ROCK SOLID....then when we got into the Studio, it was (in a way) "autopilot", as far as "sounding well rehearsed and tight".
Recording: 1 Weekend...since
"(studio) time is money", and, um, we didn't HAVE a lot, we did everything "Live" with scratch vocals 1 day; went back in and did all the "final front and backing" vox the 2nd day - on a Saturday and Sunday, in September 2005.
Sounds cool, Nora. Years ago, I worked with two other guys and we produced an EP. The first thing we did was lay down the drum tracks (with the guitarist's rythym and bass coming through my headphones live). We built it from there.
Man, I've gotta dig that out and somehow get it recorded over to something so I can upload it to my computer. Any ideas...Nora? Anyone?
Um....I guess if you have "GarageBand", maybe you could do something with it....?

All that stuff is still a "new frontier" for me.
Forgot to add:
9 songs were already written by Mark ~ they were meant for a project in the late 80s - early 90s, but then "Grunge" (:roll:

) came in and killed off ALL that type of music. So, they were "in Mothballs"....they just needed to be learned. Plus, just to make it even MORE of a "physical challenge" for me ~ AND to put my Musical Training to work ~ I had to work out ALL NEW vocal melody lines....all of those songs were meant for a MALE Lead Singer!
The title track was written by me; "Soundview Jam" came about during one of our rehearsal sessions....just goofing around.
So, I believe that that's the reason why it took a relatively short amount of time to create "11th House".