Saturday, December 13, 2008

week 1


As most of you know, we finished up our US run for Colors last weekened with four shows with some of our good North Carolina friends' bands. We then promptly got to work beginning the writing process for our next record at our practice space in Winston-Salem, NC. We had plenty of Moe's, LOST season 4, and Blake's mom's vegan chocolate chip cookies to fuel this first writing session.








Dan's work area:




Our best friend:

Space shuttle sounds and other great toys used in this song:

(note the pitch shifter is down an octave!)

Finishing up the demo:


...and four days into it we finished the first song for the new record. Some adjectives thrown around while writing it were "noisy Coalesce breakdown", "3/4 Mastodon groove", "9/8 Mars Volta", "Queen chromatic build up", "Megadeth chorus", and a whole lot more. Just your typical start to BTBAM album! I highly doubt we'll update this blog, I just wanted to post some evidence that we had started writing and were all really really excited and that there's an extreme abundance of great musical ideas flowing out of us. We're gonna spend the rest of Decemeber writing and relaxing before we head to Australia for the month of January. We'll pick back up with the writing in mid February after my other band ORBS records our debut full length and everyone's had a second to regroup after the tour overseas. Get stoked!
-dan/btbam

25 comments:

  1. Great news! Does your description mean a return to chaos for btbam? Either way I'm excited to hear it. Keep up the good work.

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  2. I can't wait!!! I'm lovin' those adjectives. Anything with Mastodon, Mars Volta, or Queen in it sounds great to me. I'd love to hear the intro to Prequel to the Sequel topped in terms of epic-ness. Also another bass solo and more keyboards/piano would be sweet.

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  3. Very Dream Theater-esque descriptions. Is there an inspiration corner?

    Rock on.

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  4. =) really can't wait til the next one comes out!!! can't wait til you guys come back to Chicago and step on my hands again! ha. til then Colors will be my only comfort while working on chemistry...

    great job guys.

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  5. haha. DAN IF YOU DONT UPDATE THIS ILL BE PISSSSSSSSED. take a super sweet video of the recording stuff again, the one for Colors was really cool because then i got to not only hear little snippets of the new stuff early, i also got to have fun seeing where in the 89787987987987987 million notes played throughout the album that all the parts fit together!

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  6. I'm really excited to read this Dan, thnx for sharing....tho I might feel not that excited about this ..." I highly doubt we'll update this blog, I just wanted to post some evidence that we had started writing " C'MON MAN!!! AT LEAST PICS!!

    'Twas great to have you guys back here in Mexico city, hoe you enjoyed as much as we do, and I hope to see you back again for the next album's tour.

    oTTo

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  7. can i expect a second part for colors? it will be a conceptual album? there's only one thing i'm sure it will be greater than the others

    greetings my friends i hope you come to mexico again with the new album!

    Oscar

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  8. You guys should go to Pilot Mountain for inspiration

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  9. Australia in January? Can I hope for a NZ date, or should I book my flights now ;)

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  10. Oh my gosh, you guys are incredible. I'm really looking forward to new stuff. One week and a song already? That's awesome! Congrats, guys. You guys really should go all out and update this thing.. It would be really cool. Awesome job at the final Colors shows.

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  11. Great! This is great news... please, update this blog whenever you feel like eating a McDonald's cheese burger. =D

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  12. please update regularly!! That would be awesome.

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  13. Thanks for being a consistent escape and source of inspiration and all-out-fuck-yeah'idness for me, and thanks for not forgetting the West Coast...Much love for BtTB&Me out here! Everyone pray for Chi Cheng as well...Him and the Deftones practically put Sacramento on the map.

    And don't neglect this blog fellas!

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  14. Great to hear that you guys are hard at work again. I'm also really excited to hear more from Orbs. I hope you do decide to update the blog too!

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  15. Is it me, or is Paul getting larger

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  16. "Noisy Coalesce breakdown" gives me a boner.

    Fuck yes.

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  17. I think I might cry with joy.

    Saw one of those "NC shows" in Charlotte on 12/4. Awesome job, guys. I love your music (old AND new) and love seeing you live whenever you come near South Carolina (a black hole of culture otherwise).

    God bless and safe journeys!

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  18. that sounds awesome and all, but i cant help but wonder what the fuck are vegan chocolate chip cookies?

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  19. vegan chocolate chip cookies are cookies without real butter or eggs. duhhhh =P

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  20. hahaha! loving the iMac fresh out from the box. :)

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  21. Sounds like you guys are off to a great start :]

    I want that cookie recipe.

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  22. God, this sounds fantastic. The simple fact that you watched season four of LOST to get pumped is so fucking awesome. My two favorite things--BTBAM and LOST--combined.

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  23. Awesome blog. It's so cool to see what you guys do during the creative process. I hope we get more like this in the future.

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