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8.5.08

Jeremiah Edmond — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:16:26 +0000

Harrison Hudson spent the day with us at the studio yesterday taking photos and hanging out. He let everyone ride his scooter which we were sure would end in disaster but everyone made it through unharmed. Here are a couple photos from the day.

We finished tracking “Everything To Nothing” last night. Everyone seems to be getting used to the monitoring system and playing together with the click track and headphones and everything.

Afterward I went out with harrison to grab a drink at the Taproom and then he crashed at the hotel with us. It was nice to get out somewhere other than the studio or hotel. Our friend Tommy Hans is here at the studio now hanging out. He was kind enough to let us come hang out at his house the first night we got here. He used to play in a band called Arkitekt that we Manchester used to play with allot before I joined the band and we havent seen much of his in the last couple years so it has been great to see him.

My wife is on her way to Nashville now for the weekend so I am excited to see her. I’m sure it will be a little boring for her at the studio and I won’t have a ton of time to hang out but I am really looking forward to seeing her.

We have been tracking a song tentatively named “Tony The Tiger” today. We had some issues with Andy’s amp that took a while to fix and then got through a handful of takes and now Joe is comping it all together to see if we need to track anymore while we hang out and wait for or sushi to arrive. Hopefully we got it all and can get through another track before wrapping tonight.

prepro wrap up

Jeremiah Edmond — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:23:12 +0000

This last week has been a whirlwind. We have been doing pre production with Joe Chicarelli each day which has been awesome. Joe has had such great ideas and input and the songs are even better now than they were last week. This whole writing process has been interesting and different for all of us. With the last record we had been playing most of the songs for a while before recording them and knew exactly what we wanted them to sound like. With this record we wrote everything in a very short amount of time and left a lot of it open to work through in pre production. We are all extremely excited to see how they continue to progress once we get into the studio.
Today I am heading to Matt Malpass’ studio Marigolds & Monsters to work on a new project for Favorite Gentlemen. We are going to be recording video and audio of Right Away, Great Captain! performing a few songs for a new series we are starting. This is the test run so I am excited to see how it all turns out. J is helping out and taking care of all of the video duties. It is amazing having friends like Matt and J, that are so talented at what they do and who are willing to get involved and try new things like this. Hopefully all will go smoothly.

Pre-Production – Day 1

Jeremiah Edmond — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:06:56 +0000

Today was day one of pre-preoduction with Joe Chicarelli. Joe will be producing the new album. We work on two songs today. It is always takes a little while to get used to another persons work flow and ideas and comment but by the end of the day I think we all felt really comfortable with Joe and him ideas really added a lot to the songs. I think both songs were much better by the end of the day.
Tomorrow we will try and get through another song or two and then we get to go see My Morning Jacket play at The fabulous Fox Theater tomorrow night. We are all extremely excited to them play again as they are mind blowing live. If you haven’t seen them, go buy OKONOKOS. They released a live DVD and CD that are awesome. Our friend Sam Erickson Directed it and it is one of the best live films I have ever seen.

NPR Music – Road Trip: Music To Drive By

Jeremiah Edmond — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:04:08 +0000

I think I am going to download all of these tonight and start listening to them on my commute to and from Atlanta.

Back In The Studio

Jeremiah Edmond — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:13:08 +0000

We are back in the studio again. We started today. Andy, Robert and I loaded all of our gear into Vintage Song Studios to start working on an EP with our good friend Dan Hannon. Dan produced I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child so we are excited to continue working with him. Chris and J will join us later in the week. Chris is visiting his family right now and J is out on tour selling merch and filming with Alexander T. Kent.

Andy is tracking a scratch guitar track right now and then I will start tracking drums. It is a completely different approach to writing and recording than the way we did our last record but we are really enjoying it so far. I will post some photos tomorrow.

yeahyeahyeah

Jeremiah Edmond — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:14:13 +0000

so it seems all of my posts recently start with me apologizing for slacking off and not writing much. So this time I am making no excuses. I have been busy! Busy being at home for once and spending time with my wife and family finally. I have lots of pictures waiting to be edited and posted and they will be soon.

We are home FINALLY, and it feels GREAT. My wife had vacation days for the first few days we were home and so I was somewhat forced to take a break from work as well and it was great. It is so nice to be home and do normal things like go to dinner with friends, go to church, and just watch bad TV in bed with my wife. I went to a bachelor party last night for my friend Jon Chalden. I have started working on screen printing. I have started watching Gossip Girl. YES, Gossip Girl. I have been reading up on eating healthy and working on getting my family eating better for the sake of my Dad’s health. I never thought I woudl EVER buy fat free anything or care about health food but since my Dad’s health is at risk it has changed the way I think about everything.

I am at my friend Matt Malpass’ studio Marigolds and Monsters. I love the name and the logo. Matt is an old old friend. We used to play in bands in highschool and tour together. We both ended up in Atlanta engineering and producing records. It has been really nice being in a studio environment today. Jeff from Say Anything came by today. It was good to see him. Matt from Relient K is over right now tracking some keys. A band called Ellington is recording their EP with Matt right now. They came all the way from Australia which is pretty awesome.

That is all from now. I will try and post some pictures tomorrow.

SLC>Denver>Kansas City

Jeremiah Edmond — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:21:01 +0000

We didn’t arrive in SLC until almost noon. Luckily I had been able to get some decent sleep in the van so I spent the day catching up on e-mails and phone calls and trying to finish the new photo blog page.
I was a little bummed at first when I realized we were playing the smaller room at the venue because it meant we had to share drum kits but it actually ended up being a really fun show. Somehow we have a pretty great fan base in SLC and they were an awesome crowd. Thank you SLC!
We stayed the night in town and woke up early yesterday morning to drive. I slept the first few hours and then woke up and watched the Sigur Ros DVD with Tim. It was incredibly well done and really inspiring. That band blows my mind.
The denver show was pretty cool. I liked the venue other than the dressing room being colder than it was outside. It was absolutely freezing!
We decided to take of after the show and drive through the night to save on hotel costs. I took the first shift riding shotgun while Joe drove. We listened to some Jay-Z, Saves The Day, Get Up Kids, and some further seems forever. I gave him a crash course of Wilco records. He had somehow missed out on Wilco all of this time. He then introduced me to Mew which I really liked. I decided to get some french vanilla cappuccino to help me stay awake. I don’t ever drink coffee because I have always hated the taste but this wasn’t too bad. I did burn my tongue though which is really annoying. We finally traded shifts a little after 5 AM and I got some sleep. I kept getting woken up but some asian women who had the wrong number and WOULD NOT stop calling.
We just checked into our hotel in KC and are hanging out here for a few hours until we have to load in to the venue. Last time we played here the club has a mechanical bull. I am hoping it is still there and we can ride it tonight.

Back On The Road

Jeremiah Edmond — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:32:13 +0000

My last week at home was great but went by way too quickly. I went back to Daufuskie with Erin and my parents to help them back up some stuff. I love going through junk and found some great stuff. I finally found my sports cards that had been lost forever and some old family photos.I spent some time working of Favorite Gentlemen stuff. The website is almost finished. We got the I Married My Highschool Sweetheart album mastered as well as a new track from Winston Audio that will be available on the FG/Gnome Records download card. The download card should bring some good attention to the bands.This evening we flew from Atlanta to LA. We flew Delta which is annoying becasue they charge for all the food and entertainment other than music. Luckily they have some good albums to listen to.My ATL to LA listening consisted of:Robert Plant/Allison Krauss – Raisin SandMadeleine Peyroux – Half The Perfect WorldBob Dylan – Modern TimesThe White Stripes – Icky ThumpKevin Devine – New DemosThe New Frontiers – Daytrotter SessionsI browsed through some other random stuff too.Our new tour manager Joe and merch guy Tim picked us up at the airport and we headed to the hotel. We are staying on Sunset right down the street from Vine so we aren’t far from the Avalon which is where we play tomorrow. We also aren’t far from In-N-Out, so we walked over and got some food that we are already regretting. Tomorrow is our first show which should be fun. I am looking forward to seeing the Say Anything guys again.Joy In Tomorrow is also in town tomorrow night so hopefully we will be able to hang out with them after the show. I am still on ATL time so I am going to head to bed.

Brisbane>Sydney>LA>HOME!

Jeremiah Edmond — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:27:27 +0000

The Brisbane Laneway Festival was small but good. Looking back now I am realizing that I somehow didn’t take any pictures. Out set went alright but had some random tech issues with monitors and gear. It was incredibly hot on stage and they didn’t have any towels. Caught Okerville River, Feist, The Cool Kids and Still Flyin. The after party was really lame. Had a drink or two with the Okkervil guys and then went back to the hotel because we had an early flight the next morning.

The fight to Sydney was really early. Luckily I got pretty good at sleeping on the flights. We saw Santana at the airport. Got asked for our auograph by some guy. I think he was just hanging out looking for people who had gear and was asking them ask if he knew who they were. It looked like he was looking at picures of us on his phone with his friend and figuring out who was who. It was really weird.

Our set in Sydney was amazing. The crowd was packed and seemed really into it. It was a great way to end the trip. I felt like it was our best set of the tour.

we stuck around the rest of the day hanging out and catching a few shows. Ended up on stage with Still Flyin and a million other people for their last song. Got to watch Broken Social Scene from side stage. Got to watch CYHSY side stage. They played an amazing set. My favorite of the tour by far.

We decided to ditch the after party and went with Okkervil River to a karaoke bar. It was probably the highlight of the trip for me. Highlights of the night: J & Robert singing Rock Lobster, Andy & I singing Danger Zone, Chris and Patrick singing EVERYTHING.

The next morning Chris and I did a quick interview with Channel V tv which is supposed to be like MTV. The woman called Andy Allen, Called Chris Jeremiah, and called me Chris. She also spoke very loudly all of a sudden when the camera was on and didn’t pick up on our names even when we would answer her question by referring to each other by name and pointing. It should turn out pretty great.

We flew home on Quantas which meant tons of movies to watch. This time I watched American Gangster, some Italian movie, and……I can’t remember what else. That is the problem with watching so many movies at once. I can’t remember any of it. I got some decent sleep. Lost my passport in LA. Found it. Had to pay a ton of money for all our extra bags. The Delta flight home sucked. Rough flight. No food. No movies. Lousy headrest. I have never been happier to be home. The trip was amazing but I could not have gone another day. You would think that it would get easier every time but now that I’m married it seems harder and harder every time.

I am incredibly tired now and it is only 7:30. My body still hasn’t gotten used to the time change. Hopefully I will get some decent sleep tonight. The last two nights were awful.

I am working hard to sort through all the picture from the last 3 trips and post them to my photo blog. It should be up by the time we leave for the next tour in a week.

Melbourne>Sydney

Jeremiah Edmond — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:51:40 +0000

It has been a few days since I have had decent internet and the time to write. We played a show with CYHSY in Melbourne the day after Laneway. We didn’t really do a whole lot that day other than hang out at the hotel and then play. The show went well. I was really tired afterwards and we had to wake up early the next morning for a flight so I didn’t hang out much after the show.

The next morning we woke up early and caught a flight to Sydney. It was an off day for us but we had to do a bunch of label and promo stuff. As we were going to pick up our luggage we ran into Lenny from My American Heart. We had met him at a party in L.A. a few months back. As we were talking to him we looked outside and saw Kevin Devine and Aaron and Mike from mewithoutYou! We had all been bummed knowing that Kevin was going to be in Melbourne the day we had to leave so it was awesome running into him. It was nice to see Aaron and Mike as well as Mike’s wife Sarah. It had been a good few months since seeing them. Pretty mind blowing running into friends and people we know halfway across the world.

The press stuff all went well. We got to go do an interview at JJJ which was really cool. It seems like an amazing station. We went out to dinner with a few people from the label here that night. They took us to a cool italian/pizza place and had an amazing time hanging out and eating and having some good conversation. Afterwards Mariam was kind enough to take us to the beach to hang out for a little while.

Once we made it back to the hotel we watched a bit of I’m Not Here. We didn’t make it all the through the movie though becasue we got distracted hanging out. The hotel was filled with other bands who were playing the Soundwave festival. It really seemed like there was nothing but bands at the hotel. I tried to watch the movie again once we got back to the room but was just too tired.

Chris, Robert and I all woke up early the next morning and got some breakfast and then caught a cab to go see the zoo. We caught a ferry that goes by the Sydney Opera house and then we took the sky bucket over the whole zoo. The ferry ride was beautiful and the sky bucket thing was pretty awesome too. We ended up making it to every exhibit I think. The zoo was absolutely amazing. The coolest zoo I have ever been to by far. Robert got to touch a kangaroo. I don’t think he was supposed to, but it came out on the sidewalk and he did. As soon as he touched it the kangaroo brushed his hand off of him. He didn’t like it much. You are able to get so close to all the the animals. I would recommend it to anyone going to Sydney.

The show that night was really great. We were exhausted from walking around the zoo all day but the crowd was really responsive which made it a bit easier to get into playing. A lot of the label came out to the show and we hung out afterwards. We are really excited about the label team over here and it has been really great getting to meet them all.

I was absolutely exhausted by the time we got to the hotel and passed out trying to upload pictures. We have to go to the venue now so hopefully I can upload a bunch tonight when we get back.