So I’ve been sitting on the mixes for my new album for two weeks or so now, listening for things that still bother me, and getting feedback from some friends. So far, the feedback has been good! Of course, it would figure that now would be when Avid/Digidesign finally releases a version of Pro Tools [...]
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Nearing completion
July 10, 2010
Goodbye, Pete.
April 15, 2010
I found out this morning that Peter Steele – the singer, songwriter, and bass player – for what was probably my favorite living band, Type O Negative, died last night. He was just 48. There’s one less musical genius on Earth now. I got a chance to meet Pete and the guys several years ago [...]
It’s coming together…
January 31, 2010
So, the album is coming together nicely. All of the vocals are sung, and I’ve been working on comping them and picking out the best parts. I found a great horn player, Bill Scholl, and we got together a while ago and recorded some ideas for the song “Drive Me”. After listening to the parts [...]
What’s new?
October 21, 2009
I was making good progress, recording at a (relatively) good pace through the end of the summer. Vocals are done for 7 of the 12 songs, and that’s more than half. But then it went and got cooler outside and I went and caught a cold. I don’t think it was the pig flu or [...]
I just recorded a Michael Jackson tribute
June 26, 2009
I just put together this Michael Jackson tribute. It’s an acoustic cover of Thriller, with some self-recorded backing vocals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyA-80k9lAQ&fmt=18 Check it out and let me know what you think! RIP, MJ!
Update
June 25, 2009
Quick update. I’ve found myself using Twitter (which in turn updates my Facebook page) a whole lot lately, as it’s easier to write a 140-character “what I’m working on now” update than to write a full blog entry. And more people tend to read Twitter and Facebook than my blog here. But to recap, for [...]
Guitars, guitars, and more guitars. And computers.
May 16, 2009
Over the last two weeks, I’ve recorded the guitars for just about half the songs for the new album. It’s quite the process. I’d done fairly fully-fleshed out demos for most of these songs, and so started out the “real” versions by importing the demo parts as a road map once the drums were tracked. [...]
Back in the saddle
April 22, 2009
I finally got my Pro Tools setup stable on the new computer and got some work done on the solo album over the last couple of days. I decided to start with the guitars in “Everything’s Fine”. I re-recorded over the imported demo tracks (which were time-shifted as I imported them to fit the song’s [...]
This is not good.
March 26, 2009
For those of you wondering why I haven’t posted about my progress on the new album lately… I decided to get a new computer recently. The one I had was pretty fast, but not quite powerful enough to do everything I wanted to do on my songs. So I got a newer, faster one. I’m [...]
Thanks, Metroland Readers!
March 5, 2009
http://metroland.net/features.html The readers of Metroland, the venerable arts paper of the Capital Region, have voted: Best Local Solo Musician: Mike Grosshandler Best Local Rock Band: The Velmas (second place) Thanks to everyone who voted! Hope to see lots of you out at Sage College on 3/27 4/24 (new date)!