I have been writing and recording like crazy. Just recording through garageband on the Ipad. Just my acoustic and voice. I’m just playing unplugged with the microphone pointing toward the acoustic soundhole so I can make my guitar sound loud and upfront. I love my recordings with the guitar loud and upfront. That’s how I always loved to record.

Ya know, I can’t stand recordings when bands have the guitar in the back and you can’t hear the guitar that much ya know? I’ve heard plenty of band recordings by bands/artists over the years where the other instruments takes over the guitar playing. I hate that. I love my guitar pretty loud ’cause it helps me sing better and makes me feel more confident. Plus, I think it sounds better being played loud.

I recorded like 5 songs so far for the upcoming internet album and I’m proud of them so far. I’m trying to make these songs really good. Gonna give ’em my best shot. At least, I’ll try to make ’em really good for me but hopefully other people will find ’em really good too. I’m taking the singing seriously this time around.

I don’t really need to spend hundreds of dollars of studio time when you can record for cheap at home. I try to make the production of my songs sound clean the best I can but if I can’t… oh well. That’s the beauty of home recording, ya know? Just record your songs not caring how the sound quality is. I’ve always have that attitude. I don’t know anything about producing and mixing, all that stuff.

I record songs as a way to get ’em off my mind and keep ’em. I never cared how the tracks sounded. Sure, I tried my best over the years to get rid of hiss and try to get a clean studio sound and garageband for the Ipad is the best I can do for that.

I don’t believe in perfection. Perfection is overrated in music, ya know? If you want your music to be perfect with sound, songwriting ability and your technical skill… then you’re playing music for all the wrong reasons.

I’m gonna ignore those negative critics toward my music from this point on. I don’t care what they have to say anymore but I do think people will love my upcoming songs. How many songs will I come up with for the album? Probably around 15 to 20 songs. Depends on how many I come up with. While I’m mostly gonna write new material, I’ll bring some of my old ones back. Not too much old songs but some. I wanna bring back “Evil Fred”, “Mr. Tough Guy”, “Time Bomb” and a few other oldies. Those are songs I wrote back in 2006. I wanna focus on new material mostly.

Kev