Home Improvement

Last night was our first night of real work to sound-proof the band room since Gary's neighbor decided come over and start argueing about how it was so loud last thursday. It all seems kinda pointless because Gary will be moving in the spring anyway, but he figures the less trouble he has in the meantime the better. We shot up a framework of 2x3's and filled them in with multiple layers of fanfold insulation that should provide a pretty thick and dense barrier. We also stuffed the window and all the cracks with home insulation and then even covered the windows with cinder blocks. Then stuffed blankets and layers of fanfold insulation in the wind and finally boarded it up.

Either tommorow night or friday Gary and I will cut and set the 1/2 inch drywall we bought and we will be almost complete. Fortunately my dad was able to score us some quality high density audio deadening material. This stuff is super dense, in that a 1 square foot section weigh like 2 pounds. We've got like 5 sheets of this stuff, each one about 5'x5', so we're going to save some of it for Gary new house, because this stuff is expensive and hard to come by. So by saturday we'll be jamming again in our new soundproofed room.

The Twilight Hayride is gearing up to be one bad ass show at Smiley's. Our booking agent has us playing with two pretty big bands in St. Louis, Driver and Rusted Shine. He said he expects there to be quite a crowd and for this being our first show it will be a lot of exposure. Now we have to write our setlist. We've been writing new music faster and better than anything we'd ever done with Silent Q. Over seven years with that band and we'd written some 20-25 songs, even though we regularly only played the same 12 or so. We've already got 13 songs written and there are no signs of it stopping.