August 2011
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Nothing Will Stop Us From Rocking Tonight In...
This story begins with the usual whoa-is-me-the-hurricane-cancelled-my-flight drivel that you’ve already read about in everyone else’s road journals. But on Saturday when Delta announced they’d cancelled my Monday morning flight out of New York, there wasn’t much time to react. A hurricane was bearing down on us, and we had to be in Indiana by Monday night. We needed...
January 2010
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I wrote a studio journal!
Dalton’s been asking me to write a studio journal while we’re down here in Nashville working on our album — at this point, having only posted a few entries about our new material and the sessions we did with David Kahne last winter, I think it’s better to let Ryan handle the day-to-day stuff like Joe’s inner “Situation” on his Twitter account. Maybe...
April 2009
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Dear 109 Followers...
Today I realized my last two road journal entries were accidentally posted here in the studio journal. A minor blogging technicality to some of you, but the difference between a tickle in the back of the throat and a nasty case of swine flu to me.
Huh?
If you’d like to follow along as I mock deadly global pandemics online, you ought to click this link and join up with the road journal,...
January 2009
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Fluglehorn solo
I’ve been delinquent again, but I have good reason. I can’t find my digital camera anywhere, and without my camera these entries are just bland walls of words. Obituaries. Thankfully Adam has a FLIP video camera, and did his best D.F. Yonkman impression yesterday while our friend Larry played fluglehorn on our record.
Working title for the song is “Lost at Sea” —...
December 2008
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Letter from a fan!
“Kenny R.” in California writes…
Brian- It has now been one day short of a month since you last updated the road journal’s new “Tumblr” page, and that can mean just one thing. You have quit the band after a heated debate with Ryan over what you thought was Bruce Willis’ worst performance on screen. I don’t want to get into the argument or studio...
November 2008
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What the #&%! is tumblr and how do I use it
November 21st 2008. We’ve recorded 8 basic tracks now. It took us 3 days to do it. That’s 2 and 2/3rds songs per day. Most bands that David Kahne works with knock out 4 in a day, but we’d never done more than one a day before (we started in a dorm room! we’re just cavemen!), so for us this represents a real accomplishment. Should there be pride in recording songs...