Recording, day two

So we didnt record five songs. We sure didnt have time for that many, hah. We just finished our song. So we got Fear of falling and You can never win this fight. It was so much fun when we added the singing and guitar lead. I sounded so angry when I sang, and Greg even said "awesome! But could you try again.. and sound even more mean?"

I think we got six different tracks of different solos ben played. They all sounded amazing.


Ben in the room. (Big brother is watching you)


Whatever he was saying, it was funny.




Acoustic base! Its white! Im going to steal it!

Recording, day one.

The first day of recording is done! 5h straight.. god Im tired. And hungry, but everyone is sleeping, so I just grabbed a banana. Perfect dinner, haha.

Most of the time went to record rythm guitar. stupid metronom, its so hard! But we got at last. We finished recording the song i wrote (fear of falling). rythm guitar, lead guitar, vocals plus vocalharmonies. I improvised like crazy on the harmonies, and went higher than my voice wanted too. But I think it turned out good. Greg is awesome, the guy who runs the studio, his idea to add a higher harmony. Ben made the perfect lead over it too, so the song has such a good flow. Im so happy right now.

The last picture is the little singing box that we are closing Ben into tomorrow. Learned today that his claustrofobic, hah. Poor thing.

I should propably go to bed, we are getting up ridiciolously early and heading out to the studio again.

We are just singing, and Ben are doing leadguitar tomorrow. The song we wrote is going to be so much fun to record.

I like this life.

preparing to record (the final countdown)

I can not stop smiling.

And my heart can not stop singing.

So this recording project we are doing, is a thousanddollars project. The studio is so proffesional. And freaking Jennifer is paying for it, as a gift! Shes crazy! I love her!

I just got back from practising with Ben. I thought he was going be annoying, I was going to be frustrated, and we werent gonna get anything done. It didnt turn out that way. Today was so awesome. The song we wrote is so tasty and amazing, especially Bens guitars solo.

This is our final. Its sad, but its so epic. Its like the last song in a long and awesome concert.

But dont worry, we all know that the musicians always get cheered back for an extra number!
(that would be the outdoor gig at Muleys, the fourth of june, be there)

LOVE! /Ekkin

Recording

I thought my voice would be gone today. But no, maybe Im getting used to sing/scream.

Me and Ben are jumping into the recording studio on Friday, and Saturday. And I guess we are writing an entire new song for it, so we will have two. I really hope Ben allready got music for it, so we can just do some lyrics and be happy.

Have a wonderful sunny sunday!

I get by with a little help from my friends

Kimmie just said the funniest thing. So she has been trying to find a concert that we can go to before I leave, just in one of the states nearby, and that we easily can get tickets for.

She just told me that shes been trying to find out if the beatles are playing anywhere close. I died. She can be so cute sometimes.

Yeah that aint gonna happen...

Gig at Muleys

Last night was awesome. Except for some stupid mic that gave crazy feedback, everything was so perfect. I havent had that good audience in a while, when you barely can take a break because people keep calling out songs that you should play.

Ive noticed that the only thing, or atleast the major thing, that you need for it to sound good is to be in a good mood. I can do that. And some feelings of course.

This drummer, Brandon, that works in the bar came up and played with us, he was awesome. Everything became so.. much more. Like more rock. I love when you dont even have to practise to make it sound good. And me and Ben are getting crazy good at improvising together. Its so much fun.

A good night. Im so freaking tired today though. I was going to figure out the singing melodies for some songs and write them down, but I think Im too lazy. Stupid tiredness.

Muleys 8pm

Tonight we will be playing our most proffesional gig that we have ever done. At Muleys.

Cant really see the difference except we got fancy posters with our names on. Which is always nice. And Ben made a setlist so we wont be sitting like "what do you wanna play now?" "I dont know, what do you wanna play?". That is not too proffesional, even if its kind of funny.

Well, I like music and I like to think that music likes me back. Thats all I need.

I think we got around 40 playable songs. How did that happen? Not too bad, not too bad at all.

Have a wonderful evening, I hope Ill seeya tonight!

The botten is nådd

I was having a bad day yesterday. I wish I could just be sad and live with it, but instead I have to be a selfcentered bitch.

Atleast I sang my heart out at Jermans. My voice is dead today. Weird how much music helps. People were smiling and gave me compliments.. and that usually cheers me up. It did for like two seconds, but that was about it.

To perform just because you love it and not for others attention. It makes me kinda happy that I can do that. So Im not completely selfcentered after all.

Im just gonna stop being mean right now. Not that I was super mean to everyone, but I sure was in my mind. So, lets stop right now. Good deal.

"Kändes förjävligt innan men det börjar bli lite bättre nu min vän
Om jag tappar fästet och trillar ner ska jag klättra upp igen"