Here’s my little plan of what I’m doing for my upcoming “internet album”. This will be an exclusive internet only album ’cause I can’t afford studio time and CD manufacturing/duplication so I’m just gonna make this album homemade. I’m thinking this will be a two part album. The first side will be all new songs that I will write for this year and the second side will be all old songs. I wanna bring back a lot of my old songs so I can show new people of what I’m all about musically.
I’ll come up with a title for the album and design a cover for it. The cover will be nothing fancy. I’ll probably just use a photo of myself holding my acoustic guitar for the album cover. This will be an internet only album and it will be absolutely FREE! I believe in the free music movement ’cause it’s a good thing to do to share your music and get it heard, ya know? Bands/artists don’t always have to sell their music. I don’t take myself seriously and want my music heard.
This album will be for the longtime fans of mine and it can be for new fans too. Who ever wants to hear it, I’m good. I’m probably gonna upload all the songs to either reverbnation or soundcloud and then I’ll link them to the album page in this site. I’m hoping this album will be pretty big so I’m gonna promote it as best as possible when I’m ready to release it. I’ll pick a release date for it once I get enough songs together for it. I’m thinking the internet album might be out later this summer.
I have been writing new songs and re-learning the old ones. How many songs will be on it??? Not sure. Depends on how many I come up with and think what best tracks will make the album. I’ll make the album downloadable for mp3 that way you can listen to ’em on your Ipods and whatever gadgets you listen to music on. This will be an official album and will be all homemade.
I’m gonna try my best to make my new songs really good. Like I repeatedly said before, my newer songs may be going in a different direction. I’m sort of going in a folk/rock and poetic direction. I’ll still do the aggressive acoustic rock that I did in the past but I wanna concentrate on slow ballads mostly. I really wanna focus on the singing this time around. I’ve been working extremely hard on my vocals and practicing like a mofo. I feel that I have gotten much better as a singer. I’ve been singing with more range and singing higher as you can all tell. I’ve been singing with the “head voice” more and that’s how you wanna sing. My goal for my new songs is that I want people to be able to feel it when they hear them… ya know, the goosebumps. I want my songs to have more passion and emotion next time around.
My two new songs that I released earlier this year: “Leave this Place” and “Speak A Little Loudly”. Those two will definitely make the album. If you liked those, wait until you hear the songs that I’ve been sitting on.
I’m serious about this “internet album”. I’m gonna make it happen and committed to it. I do all I can to make the best music possible. Really I do. You may not see it but I do work my ass off and work hard on my talent. Not trying to sound like an egomaniac here.
Kev
You should put some of your overs on there of the older guys like Ritchie Valens. Then you could call it Oldies Ballads And More Acoustic ROCKS!.
You know what would really be cool? You put some hidden messages in it, like “easter eggs” . You know, like political stuff.
There will be plenty of political songs. I plan to write one about Barack Obama. I also plan to write one dedicated to Benghazi. I have plenty of ideas for political and protest songs.
No cover songs. This will be focused on originals. The covers will be for youtube videos only.
Kev
Are you gonna do an internet-streaming album release concert too? Lotta people doing those these days, they’re pretty cool.
Yep, definitely. A live-internet stream show is definitely planned. I’ll probably do it on Ustream. Since I don’t gig much, a live stream show is a good idea.
Kev