"In This Corner" and "The Professional"

Time to touch up on the progress of the band. The band name, for now, remains to be "Below Me", but we are on the search for a new, more fitting name. "Below Me" kind of just came into light as a sort of joke...SNL fans may know what skit this came from. It seems like it is going to be a bit of a process coming up with a name that we all can agree on. There has been a couple of decent names in our brainstorming, but I think we wind up joking around more than anything.

Let's see, since we got the studio space last October, we have mostly just jammed around and come up with "songs", or more like pieces of songs, up until two or three months ago. I guess you can say that it is mostly a improvised creative progress. Over those months we started recording these pieces on an old Tascam four track that I purchased off eBay. After getting about three cassettes full of material, and some research on how to put them on the computer, you know, transferring them over to mp3 format, it seems that we are starting to move forward a bit more. At least we seem to be more organized in getting goals together. After all of this, we got down a small set list of tracks that we were going to work on and try to make them completed songs because right now, they are really songs, just like a riff or two played over and over.

We finally decided on the first track to work on. Right now we call it, "In This Corner." We have our own reasoning for this. It has really come around, too! We added a change to the end from the original "version" that came about strictly by accident...well, more from an Bud Select infused, improvised, jam session late one Friday night. Gotta love that, right!? We kind of liked it, and molded it together with the original version that we already had. Well, so far it has come out pretty damn decent too. Soon, the plan is to get as good as a recorded version that we can do by ourselves in the coming weeks, and then maybe share it with some people, but I think that all depends on how good the recording comes out. You know that we can't have a crappy version out as a first impression...it just wouldn't be a good representation of us!

We also have our second choice for the track that we will work on next ("The Professional" for now) and we probably will start working out details on that next week. For now, we are maintaining the instrumental status for our music, but that can always change. I think that for now, we are just trying to focus on structuring and polishing up the material that we have now. So, like I said, things are starting to progress a tiny bit more, but I think that we are all starting to take this a bit more seriously now, which is a great thing in my mind. I will definitely keep "progress reports" on what happens...a kind of historical documentation for our like musical endeavor...