Honesty Sucks

I 've been a little remiss in
posting lately. Vasan tonight
at the Cedar Cultural Center
should be excellent (Sunday)- next
Fri, Sat, Su Floyd's weekend (May 5)
jam in Victoria, MN. details
are on my homepage,
http://glennbowen.biz/index.htm

My internet has been down for a couple
weeks, an in the interim, the webpage
got kind of screwed up, so I was planning
on going flying in the Blanik, but it's
raining, an I'm sitting in the basement
working on the webpage.
I am starting a major revision,
with some really nice CSS planned for the
home page, but that's going to be put on
hold - this is just pure troubleshooting,
and temporary measures- to get back to
a working website site (it's easy to forget
sometimes that Microsoft isn't the enemy).

I hope to post the phase 1 Demo CD today,
also- if I can get to it, if not, this week.

So, I handed out 9 copies of my Demo CD,
and asked these 9 people to be on my CD.
2 people said yes, 5 said no, and no response
from the others. This is a setback, I'll admit.

Basically, it means that I'm going to have
to add a phase 2 - with me doing all the
arranging, and then coming back in a couple
months, and trying to get some other
musicians involved. Everybody was pretty
nice about turning down the chance to be on
the CD, but a couple people were pretty
honest about what they thought of my
efforts, and I respect that, but since we're
all being honest about this, I got to admit,
honesty sucks.

the real mistake I made was that I put it out
at too preliminary a stage. If I was working
with musicians who were used to composing
and arranging I would have been fine, but I
was dealing with musicians who are used to
adding a part to a cover of someone elses
work, and it was too much of a leap of
imagination to ask them to make a
contribution with what I had so far, so it
was a "tactical error" on my part, you
can't ask people to step out of their
comfort zone.

I do have the equipment, and skills
to do this arranging, but its going to add
some time. I figure it sets me back three
or four months.

I purchased a really nice Roland electronic
drum kit a couple months ago, and now,
since I've got no drummer on the CD, I figure,
I better learn how to play the damn thing.
It's actually a lot of fun though, and I have
some serious software (Project 5, Sonar 3,
etc, ) so I can do it - just not on my initial
schedule. I just have to be good enough
to make a good backing track -I'll still
bring in a good drummer for the final CD.

So, after I post the phase Ia demo (which
is done all ready, I just have to post it),
I'm going to start posting the backing tracks
for the CD as a Phase 2, then I'm going
to get some more musicians to agree to be
on the CD, and go into the studio as Phase 3.

Later,

Catfish