It's June, yet it feels like it's April. The weather we have currently been experiencing is frighteningly appropriate for the collective band mood. We've been displaced from our normal practice/recording space because Ben's family is moving pretty soon, and are in between different houses at the moment. Hopefully, Ben, Steve, and possibly I will find a house to rent that we can practice and record in. But things haven't been looking too optimistic. It's incredibly difficult to find a house that is in a decent location, and doesn't cost too much to rent.
Aside from these minor issues, progress has been made in recording. A week and a half ago, we visited Camden Chamberlain's studio (Kitefishing Studio), and was able to commit Frozen Stiff in the Weeds to a recording. It sounds incredibly sleek, and I'm amazed at how quickly we were able to track everything. It took us a couple hours to get the base of drums, bass, and guitar down, but once we had that, everything else only required one or two takes. It's pretty much finished at this point, but we're holding off on exhibiting anything until we have a decent body of work built up.
Aside from the song we recorded in Camden's studio, we've been recording on our own home setup now. We purchased a digital input, a microphone kit for drums, and may or may not have purchased Logic Pro. It's a fantastic setup. We're still figuring it out, but it's sounding a hundred times better than what we used for the EP. We've already pretty much finished a version of Modular, and have laid down the drum tracks for Sorry to Bother and Kolob. We're starting off with our oldest songs that we wanted to improve upon, mainly because we need to learn how to use all the new equipment before we embark on any of the newer, more substantial material. I say more substantial because hopefully our songwriting has improved over the course of the last year.
Things have been going alot slower than I would like, but I suppose that's the life of a band. I wanted to try to accomplish as much as possible during the summer, but it seems everyone has something to do on their own time. But if we can get our practice space situation figured out, things will probably move alot quicker.
Anyway, more updates will come soon, and hopefully we'll be able to post a few samples here in the future.
Spencer
6.11.2008
2.22.2008
Oh shit, I just blogged all over your carpet! Sorry dude.
It's time, once more, for Steve to pretend that somebody will read this. Here's the scoop on the Lord, of late:
After triumphantly earning a solid $40 or so at our most recent show, we've successfully blown it all on a very very very cheap hooker. This was, of course, a bad decision, but we figure we're in a band, and if we've learned anything from watching every single episode of vh1's "behind the music" series, it's that people in bands make bad decisions.
Now that we have that horrifically regrettable portion of our bands history behind us (that fabled very very very cheap hooker phase that every band seems to go through) we can now focus our STD riddled resources on what the future holds for the Lord. We hope to buy some new recording equipment as soon as possible so we don't have to endure the tedious processes that we did for our previous recordings.
What we will do with these future recordings is up in the air for now. The content is also still very much up in the air, and there's a good chance it will end up being a series sexually explicit loops. For the time being, however, we're focusing a lot of energy on writing music. There have been a lot of ideas floating around and we hope to organize them in a satisfactory manner.
As somebody might know, we debuted a lot of new material at our last show, and we hope to have more for our next show, which will be opening for Beach House and Papercuts. There's only one way to find out if we will debut new material there, and that is by coming to the show. Or I guess you could wait for us to blog about if we debuted new material after the show. Either way I guess. But since nobody will ever read this weblog, none of this post really matters.
So there you go, nonexistent, attentive Lord Mandrake super fan. I hope I've satiated your desire for information.
-Steve
After triumphantly earning a solid $40 or so at our most recent show, we've successfully blown it all on a very very very cheap hooker. This was, of course, a bad decision, but we figure we're in a band, and if we've learned anything from watching every single episode of vh1's "behind the music" series, it's that people in bands make bad decisions.
Now that we have that horrifically regrettable portion of our bands history behind us (that fabled very very very cheap hooker phase that every band seems to go through) we can now focus our STD riddled resources on what the future holds for the Lord. We hope to buy some new recording equipment as soon as possible so we don't have to endure the tedious processes that we did for our previous recordings.
What we will do with these future recordings is up in the air for now. The content is also still very much up in the air, and there's a good chance it will end up being a series sexually explicit loops. For the time being, however, we're focusing a lot of energy on writing music. There have been a lot of ideas floating around and we hope to organize them in a satisfactory manner.
As somebody might know, we debuted a lot of new material at our last show, and we hope to have more for our next show, which will be opening for Beach House and Papercuts. There's only one way to find out if we will debut new material there, and that is by coming to the show. Or I guess you could wait for us to blog about if we debuted new material after the show. Either way I guess. But since nobody will ever read this weblog, none of this post really matters.
So there you go, nonexistent, attentive Lord Mandrake super fan. I hope I've satiated your desire for information.
-Steve
12.19.2007
What!? A blog update from Lord Mandrake!?
Dear weblog,
Well, over 3 months have passed since Spencer started this whole blog thing, and our post total has hovered around 1 for that whole time. Hopefully we'll start posting more regularly, but I won't make any promises. We've all been really busy, both with music and with the more mundane aspects of our lives, so this blog hasn't been at the top of our minds. Plus, we're not sure anybody outside the band will ever read this.
Anyway, on to Lord Mandrake updates. We've just released our new EP "Dreamer," which we are all quite proud of. It's available to download off of our myspace page for free, but I would highly recommend buying a physical copy of it. We all put a lot of time in to it, we payed for it all out of our pockets, and we assembled it all ourselves. Plus it looks really good. I'm not sure if we've sent copies to local music stores yet. We'll keep you posted on that. If you know somebody in the band just contact them. We'd rather you buy it directly from us as the record stores will take a chunk of the money, and we're greedy bastards.
In other news, we just had an article about us published in City Weekly, the same publication that called us Elliott Smith rip-offs and accused us of puppy killing (we rarely kill puppies, and when we do, we don't write songs about it). Anyway, this article is quite good. Read it here:
Oh, My Lord!: Salt Lake City's Lord Mandrake will keep you (nearly) awake.
On the live music front, we have 3 shows planned for the next 3 months. We're taking a break from playing for a while because we'd like to focus more on writing and recording new material. Our next show is on January 24, and it will be an all locals show. It's at kilby court and apparently it'll be starting earlier for some reason (like 5:30PM. As if shows in Salt Lake didn't start early enough as it is). Then on February 18 we will be opening for local band Cavedoll- who will be releasing a CD on that same night - at kilby court. The Lionelle will also be playing that evening. Both Cavedoll and The Lionelle are really cool and we're very excited to play with them. Listen to Cavedoll here and The Lionelle here. Our biggest show to date will come on March 21. We will be opening for Papercuts and Beach House! This will, of course, be at kilby court.
That pretty much wraps it up. Remember, the Lord loves you!
Steve
Well, over 3 months have passed since Spencer started this whole blog thing, and our post total has hovered around 1 for that whole time. Hopefully we'll start posting more regularly, but I won't make any promises. We've all been really busy, both with music and with the more mundane aspects of our lives, so this blog hasn't been at the top of our minds. Plus, we're not sure anybody outside the band will ever read this.
Anyway, on to Lord Mandrake updates. We've just released our new EP "Dreamer," which we are all quite proud of. It's available to download off of our myspace page for free, but I would highly recommend buying a physical copy of it. We all put a lot of time in to it, we payed for it all out of our pockets, and we assembled it all ourselves. Plus it looks really good. I'm not sure if we've sent copies to local music stores yet. We'll keep you posted on that. If you know somebody in the band just contact them. We'd rather you buy it directly from us as the record stores will take a chunk of the money, and we're greedy bastards.
In other news, we just had an article about us published in City Weekly, the same publication that called us Elliott Smith rip-offs and accused us of puppy killing (we rarely kill puppies, and when we do, we don't write songs about it). Anyway, this article is quite good. Read it here:
Oh, My Lord!: Salt Lake City's Lord Mandrake will keep you (nearly) awake.
On the live music front, we have 3 shows planned for the next 3 months. We're taking a break from playing for a while because we'd like to focus more on writing and recording new material. Our next show is on January 24, and it will be an all locals show. It's at kilby court and apparently it'll be starting earlier for some reason (like 5:30PM. As if shows in Salt Lake didn't start early enough as it is). Then on February 18 we will be opening for local band Cavedoll- who will be releasing a CD on that same night - at kilby court. The Lionelle will also be playing that evening. Both Cavedoll and The Lionelle are really cool and we're very excited to play with them. Listen to Cavedoll here and The Lionelle here. Our biggest show to date will come on March 21. We will be opening for Papercuts and Beach House! This will, of course, be at kilby court.
That pretty much wraps it up. Remember, the Lord loves you!
Steve
9.04.2007
Website and Blog
We have officially embarked into the digital frontier. Well, maybe it was already official when we started a MySpace account, but now we have a genu-ine blog. In related news, a website is in the making, and it will be spectacularly simple and unoffensive. So, you're probably wondering what we will be posting here? Assuredly, it will be strictly about our digestive manner, similar in vein to Deerhunter's blog.
Actually, it will be about the mundaneness of our day to day lives. Ever wonder what I smell like after a hard days work? How about Colin's propensity to go pantless? Ben's unwavering support of the Christian Coalition? Or Steve's favorite thong? All these mysteries and more will be fulfilled in our ongoing blog, The Lord Loves You.
Spencer
Actually, it will be about the mundaneness of our day to day lives. Ever wonder what I smell like after a hard days work? How about Colin's propensity to go pantless? Ben's unwavering support of the Christian Coalition? Or Steve's favorite thong? All these mysteries and more will be fulfilled in our ongoing blog, The Lord Loves You.
Spencer
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