My band's demo

My band did a demo in one sitting. Here are some of the recordings we did. They aren't final mixes or anything. I just thought I would share them, they are pretty much one pass at vocals, drums, and guitar. If it was good enough, we kept it. We're broke and had no choice.

The first song is Drop a Line, it's a harder song. The second is Kool Aid Man, it's just a little pop song type deal. The 3rd song is I Found You Out, which is a weird song that starts slow, has a violin, and then becomes a wall o' noise. Disregard the "fire a way" line, that's not supposed to be there. Anyways, here are the tune I came to share with you:

Drop A Line

Kool Aid Man

I Found You Out

Dave,

I appreciate you listening to our demos and listening so attentively. It’s very nice to be heard and appreciated on a musical level. We are gearing up for round two of recording, I will let you hear that stuff once we get it accomplished. I mostly agree with your assessment of our stuff. Once again, I cannot thank you enough for your attentiveness.

I wish some who could help us put out records would listen to our demo. I don’t have the major label dream of limos and endorsements. I would just like to be a good indie label that would allow us to tour and have real music fans listen to us. The way you are supposed to do that is by playing shows. But in our experience so far, that is not the case. Unless you are the most popular person on the block, no one shows up to see you play but your good friends. When you play a club, there’s no one there until your friends show up, therefore no one to introduce your music to. The other bands that play with us have their friends show up when they are going on. It’s very hard to get momentum if someone hasn’t heard your stuff before hand.

“I Found You Out,” was written and intended to be the final track of our album. I had a bridge written at one point, and it seemed to sort of get side tracked for this big build up or climax. At a few shows we trashed our equipment during those parts. The final arrangement of “I Found You Out” depends greatly on its final placement in the track listing. I also intend to give it another round of lyric touch ups. I was also thinking of ditching the violin for an accordion. But maybe I’m just being pretentious. I was the primary song writer on this track. It’s the most personal of the posted songs, and is my favorite as well.

“Drop A Line,” is one of our early efforts. Randy was the primary song writer on this tune. It came about in a pretty odd way. It was kind of a one thing at a time kind of deal. The original lyric “Drop A Line” was from a personal song I had written that never came about really and then Randy was going through this song and when I was taking my stab at it he picked up on that and went with it. In the end, I give him the full credit for it. I think the final product is less personal then intended and you picked up on that. I definitely hope the final product comes off less Puddle of Mudd. It’s one of our most fun songs to play live.

“Kool Aid Man” is loosely based around my love of the Catcher in the Rye and other things that would just ruin it if it was put all out there. I’m really glad you enjoyed it for what it is.

I have lots of home demos that are really cool in my opinion. I would like to post them, but my hosting is borrowed right now. My pal in Belgium uploaded them and I don’t want to bother him again any time soon. But when I get a chance, I will post some of the really extremely pop stuff and some of the out there morbid stuff. It’s kind of sad but we should have put out five albums by now, and we just have the material lying around.

Our band is called “Your Real Dad.” It came about as a joke and just kind of stuck. I think we agreed to change it though. I have a few names I really like; I just need to convince the boys to go along with it or have them convince me to go along with theirs. I actually loath the name “Your Real Dad” now that I think about it. It conveys an archetype of the rock bands I don’t care for and that we are not.

We are from Southern California. If we ever get to play in Seattle you should definitely come see us.

I hope everything I just wrote makes sense. I just got the Nirvana Box Set and stayed up until 5am listening to it. Thanks again Dave. If we ever get to put our CD out, I will mail you a copy. "Thanks for not wasting my time" is the best compliement I have ever recieved musically.

Wow! Thanks Dave! What do you need to get started? I cannot convey to you how fucking cool it is that you are doing this for us!

We are going to get together and debate a new band name.

We were thinking of using those 3 demos, maybe an acoustic demo or two, a live song, and then we would find a VHS recording of a song and send that your way if that's cool.

Once again, thank you very much. We appreciate the help with our music.