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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
2:14:00 AM EST
Feeling Quiet
Hearing My own music
There were a lot of elements to the "blueprint" I was following that I believed were all essential, if we were to be successful in "taking the the world by storm"...and the idea of exploding onto the music scene... appearing out of nowhere, with a great band that nobody had a clue about was something I felt very strongly about. Rehearsals were closed and private. Only band members, crew, or very close friends even knew what we were attempting. And because of the incredible investment in gear, and because of how that gear was being purchased, it was really just another thing people in the "inner circle" accepted as necessary. There were a few exceptions...Annie, who worked in New York City for American Talent International as a booking agent, was starting to spend a lot more weekends in Conn. with me, and since I spent so much of my time with the band, she had a chance to witness what was happening...first hand. And she was impressed. She started talking to the people she worked with in the City, and I was told to give her regular updates and progress reports, because there was already some behind the scenes high level interest....from managers and labels. I told her I would do that, but it was still a ways off before anything should be discussed seriously. We still had work to do....The owners of the Club (aside from my two brothers, there were four other owners) also knew, but they told me in no uncertain terms that they thought I was living in a fantasy world, and that I was just kidding myself. That didn't bother me at all, because neither they, nor anybody else, knew.... it was really almost accomplished already. They hadn't seen the gear, or heard the music...they hadn't been allowed to witness the flurry of activity... but one of our crew, Don's brother Skip, our live performance sound engineer, was also a sound man at the club...and that made people there... just a little bit curious. The one thing they were all surprised about was not only the caliber and skills of the people who had signed on...but the patience we were all showing to make sure that everything was exactly right. I was still just an ex-junkie dealer, and Mark and Barry were just "locals"...and that is how we were perceived, but people were slowly starting to pay attention. That perception of us would change very soon, however, because the band was about to head into a Hartford recording studio to record our first single...and the record not only changed the way the world saw us, but it changed the way we saw ourselves...
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2:14:00 AM EST
Feeling Quiet
Hearing My own music
Keeping Things "Under Wraps"
There were a lot of elements to the "blueprint" I was following that I believed were all essential, if we were to be successful in "taking the the world by storm"...and the idea of exploding onto the music scene... appearing out of nowhere, with a great band that nobody had a clue about was something I felt very strongly about. Rehearsals were closed and private. Only band members, crew, or very close friends even knew what we were attempting. And because of the incredible investment in gear, and because of how that gear was being purchased, it was really just another thing people in the "inner circle" accepted as necessary. There were a few exceptions...Annie, who worked in New York City for American Talent International as a booking agent, was starting to spend a lot more weekends in Conn. with me, and since I spent so much of my time with the band, she had a chance to witness what was happening...first hand. And she was impressed. She started talking to the people she worked with in the City, and I was told to give her regular updates and progress reports, because there was already some behind the scenes high level interest....from managers and labels. I told her I would do that, but it was still a ways off before anything should be discussed seriously. We still had work to do....The owners of the Club (aside from my two brothers, there were four other owners) also knew, but they told me in no uncertain terms that they thought I was living in a fantasy world, and that I was just kidding myself. That didn't bother me at all, because neither they, nor anybody else, knew.... it was really almost accomplished already. They hadn't seen the gear, or heard the music...they hadn't been allowed to witness the flurry of activity... but one of our crew, Don's brother Skip, our live performance sound engineer, was also a sound man at the club...and that made people there... just a little bit curious. The one thing they were all surprised about was not only the caliber and skills of the people who had signed on...but the patience we were all showing to make sure that everything was exactly right. I was still just an ex-junkie dealer, and Mark and Barry were just "locals"...and that is how we were perceived, but people were slowly starting to pay attention. That perception of us would change very soon, however, because the band was about to head into a Hartford recording studio to record our first single...and the record not only changed the way the world saw us, but it changed the way we saw ourselves...
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