So much has been happening, I will try to do a massive recap. It might have looked as if we were in the studio for the last two weeks judging from my absence, and the “back into the vault” post, but not so. We were only in Scott Humphrey’s vault for a day. Since then we have been in furious songwriting mode, planning the new recording sessions (which start today), meeting with a record label, doing a manager showcase, going to NAMM, playing a Camp Freddy show, and trying to sleep and eat in the gaps between all that. Let’s go back to two weeks ago…

We went back in the jam room to start cracking out new song ideas. There were about 4 new progression and parts, but no clear songs out of that week’s jams.

We then had a meeting with Capitol Records. If all goes well, We will be signing a deal with them and they will put out our records. They offered us a deal in December after they heard “Bloody Mary”, and we now are in the whole “let the lawyers deal with it” mode. When we went to go meet with Capitol, it was a pretty surreal experience. We had a meeting with the President, the head of A&R, and the GM (General Manager).

First, here's a little back story... A year and a half ago, I lived in a little one person apartment just two blocks down from Capitol, and everyday I would see that building. Ever since I moved to Los Angeles I have had kind of a special feeling about Capitol and that building. Some of my favorite music came from that label (The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Radiohead), and as you drive around Hollywood every day, that building has a feeling about it, like the Hollywood sign. A certain romance and inspiration. Hell, I love all of Hollywood, the dirty parts, the smelly bits, the decrepit stuff, so when there is an actual icon of the city's former glory, that's just fantastic to me.

A year and a half ago, when I was living down the street from that building, I thought that trying to make records and making music for a living was something in my past, that it would never happen for me. The sight of the Capitol Records building went from being a source of inspiration to a reminder of how happy I used to be making music and how much it hurt to think that I would never pursue that dream again.

Cut to 2 weeks ago, and I am standing at the window gazing out at the panoramic view of Los Angeles from the top of the Capitol building, waiting to meet with the President of thte label about a record deal for my new band. The view happened to look directly down on my old street. I stood there for a few minutes and drank in the moment. Some moments you need time to let happen, so you can return to them again for the rest of your life. This was one of those.