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It’s August, not December, and yet perhaps it’s time to review the year. After all, this time last year we still hadn’t resolved some of the issues involved in setting up a solid recording studio. It was July 2006 when SwingDoom came to Boston and told me it was time to elevate the quality of the recordings I had been making. Shortly thereafter we bought a high quality mixer and Cubase LE recording software. At that point we could make noiseless recordings and we effectively had a studio.
It was November 2006 when we had some high power sessions with SwingDoom elevating the game on Easy and Walk Next To Me, making it clear that Q.R. Station was real. And there was more writing. Also, remember that there was a time in the spring of 2007 when other parts of my life brought so much angst that I was able to write a song that wouldn’t have been possible before. I don’t want my life to suck or anything, but every now and then you can squeeze out a great song when life does suck. And then in late spring we added to the guitar effects arsenal so we could elevate Better Than This. It was also this spring when J walked into the studio to lay down some serious bass tracks for us.
In some ways, this year had the down side of not producing enough finished tracks. After all, we still haven’t released any of our songs for sale just yet. But the consolation is we have worked hard this year, we still are motivated about this project, and we’ve gotten great feedback from friends and fans alike.
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As I’ve mentioned recently, Q.R. Station spent a good amount of time in the studio this summer. We’ve gotten a lot of good work done and we have three songs that are very nearly done. SwingDoom will be laying down some beats on Better Than This, our newest song. We’ll be doing a little bit of touch-up on Easy and Walk Next To Me, and then we’ll release those singles. Our expectation is that they will all be done this fall.
We have another four or five songs that have been either all or partly written that haven’t been recorded at all. Those will make up the rest of our album. Making an album is very time consuming, especially when you are doing it part time. And I’m not going to lie, these days other things are catching our attention. We have day jobs we have to deal with, family responsibilities, etc. Rock and roll is important to us, but these other things matter, too. What I am proud of actually, is that we haven’t released the songs yet. You see, it would be easy to just say that they are done and put them out there, even if there are things we know that we could make better. We won’t do that because we care about this project and we want to be completely happy with the outcome. We are very proud of what we have done so far and we believe that the few people that have been paying attention to us will enjoy the final cuts.
So that’s the deal – we are kind of in a summer slow-down after a bunch of recording activity. Hopefully Swing will get some good work done in the coming weeks and we’ll be all that closer to a product.
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It’s taken some time to get a new blog entry out because things have been busy in the studio. SwingDoom was in the house last week as we tried to hammer out the percussion for Better Than This, a song that I think is going to be an important Q.R. Station piece. The timing is complicated on this song, so more work will be required to get this one right. I think when it comes out you’ll like it. It is very different from anything we’ve done so far. We’ll keep you posted on progress.
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