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It is finally official! Cam Clark and I will be sitting down the week of November 24th to chat about a new project and begin hammering out a sound that, we hope, will please the music listening populous.
This is a huge jump forward on the long road to rock. This meeting / jam will be a catalyst to something that, I hope, will be bigger than ourselves. Cam and I agree on some key points about song writing. The main point being: back to basics. Straight forward songs that can be played both acoustically and electric. Classic tunes you want to hear when your relaxing at the cottage, heading out on a long road trip or just kicking back with a beer after a long day at work.
Those who are familiar with The Urban Street Scandal, a project Cam and I were both involved in, might be asking how this project will be different. For one, it's been almost 4 years since we played together and we've since found ourselves wanting for a very different sound. Whereas TUSS was a collective that regularly showed off their individual talents within songs, this new project would incorporate more of a unity, stepping outside of ourselves and looking at a song as a whole. The Sam Roberts band is a fantastic example of this kind of song writing.
Since TUSS, Cam has recorded his own solo project called: This Dark Season is Reborn. Among other brilliant things, on this disc, Cam has really explored his voice. To me this is paramount to the sound you will hear when this new project bears fruit.
This is a huge jump forward on the long road to rock. This meeting / jam will be a catalyst to something that, I hope, will be bigger than ourselves. Cam and I agree on some key points about song writing. The main point being: back to basics. Straight forward songs that can be played both acoustically and electric. Classic tunes you want to hear when your relaxing at the cottage, heading out on a long road trip or just kicking back with a beer after a long day at work.
Those who are familiar with The Urban Street Scandal, a project Cam and I were both involved in, might be asking how this project will be different. For one, it's been almost 4 years since we played together and we've since found ourselves wanting for a very different sound. Whereas TUSS was a collective that regularly showed off their individual talents within songs, this new project would incorporate more of a unity, stepping outside of ourselves and looking at a song as a whole. The Sam Roberts band is a fantastic example of this kind of song writing.
Since TUSS, Cam has recorded his own solo project called: This Dark Season is Reborn. Among other brilliant things, on this disc, Cam has really explored his voice. To me this is paramount to the sound you will hear when this new project bears fruit.
The timing is perfect since I just finished up as lead singer for Easy Way Out where I learned to step back and share centre stage. Although EWO was a completely different beast, the thought process behind writing as a vocal duo, rapper or not, is still quite similar.
Needless to say I'm looking forward to working on solid harmonies and backing vocals when we trade off within songs. It may be presumptuous to say the music will be great, but Cam and I are old friends and I believe I can safely assume the experience, itself, will be.
In the mean time, I'm still writing on my own so that I have a tickle trunk full of material to pull out on that first inaugural jam. Here are 2 more gibberish based song ideas, that I will hopefully have completed next week.
In the mean time, I'm still writing on my own so that I have a tickle trunk full of material to pull out on that first inaugural jam. Here are 2 more gibberish based song ideas, that I will hopefully have completed next week.
For now everything is coming up clear skies... on the long road to rock.
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