Archive for July, 2009
Winnowing
Separating the wheat from the chaff time. Mike and I will be making our first rough draft list of our 10 best things that we want to work on. This is tough because we have at least 20 ideas that we have some attachment to. So it’s time to see what songs [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2009 under Updates.
Tags: album, process, recording, songwriting, The Jambros, update
Comments: 2
As Gravity Fails
A Jambros tribute to the anniversary of the Moon Landing. Jambros Trivia: Jeremy and the Jambros also featured a clip from the moon landing on “Eddie the Eagle”, from their first album, Jam Session. Suggestion, put this song on your car stereo and turn it up loud. The drums kick serious [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2009 under Podcasts!.
Tags: astronaut, instrumental, Jeremy and the Jambros, moon landing, mp3, podcast, songwriting, the eagle has landed, The Jambros, tranquility base, tribute
Comments: 2
Great Bill Frisell Interview!
Parts I and II:
Frisell seems like such a great human being. Gentle and a sweet heart. I like hearing him talking about improvisation in Part 2.
Posted: July 17th, 2009 under Music, Video.
Tags: Bill Frisell interview
Comments: none
Relearning Songs
Wish us luck. We’re having a go at this one Tuesday night, November 3rd Demo. I can’t remember any of the chords, Mike can’t remember a lick of the bass solo. It’s more complicated than most of our other stuff. It’s also so beautiful, we can’t let it go.
Developments have been very slow of late, [...]
Posted: July 6th, 2009 under Updates.
Tags: songwriting, The Jambros, Updates
Comments: 2
Fan Mail and Encouragement
Received this in the post today, smeared in places with hurried ink:
Ok, so men may I be bold and challenge you to gold, or platinum.
I was visiting the mySpace page (for the greatest basement band this side of the Mississippi river) and I noticed two older song posts that were/are quite good: “EightyOne” and “Harry [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: eighty-one, fan mail, frank hank and bob, The Jambros
Comments: none