It's been a couple of slow news weeks for SAS. I took a weekend off and spent the last week finishing up the last tidbits of guitar work, mainly acoustic guitar and slide guitar for one tune. The guitars, bass, drums are now 100% done and this week I am starting on vocals. I thought making the actual record would be the hard part, but I'm finding that the hardest work is yet to come.
It seems like releasing a small time record is easier than ever, but truthfully, it's next to impossible to get anyone to notice! Back in the day, you made a record, burned some copies, played shows, told people about it, and that was pretty much it. Now there are blogs(which we have obviously mastered), RSS feeds(not even real sure what these are), websites, facebook, myspace, bandmix, soundcloud, bandpage, .com addresses, internet radio, college radio, I-tunes, Cd baby, tunecore, album covers, cd layout, cd pressing, cd promotion, one sheets, press kits, EPK, photos, logos, branding....etc. The list goes on and on thanks to the internet. To help us out, I got this book, "The indie band survival guide," which is pretty great so far. It's making me realize how far behind the technology I am. I don't even own an I-pod. I still like to go to a store and buy a physical product, but I am wondering if we even need to press Cd's since everyone buys online anyway? Your thoughts and ideas would be appreciated here!
Well, that wraps up another exciting update. We are real close to having this thing "in the can," and we cannot wait to share it with all of you! This week starts vocals, and we are talking with a local artist about artwork...so yeah, it's getting there.
Waffle House,
S.A.S.
