Frank Giaramita
01/20/06, 06:23 PM
As Tall As Lions (www.astallaslions.com) have about seven songs mixed and leave for The Spill Canvas tour in about a week. Read below for a lot more details.
january 20, 2006 [by julio]
helllo kids...its 11 a.m and i just woke up to quite a gorgeous day. right now im listening to celia cruz's guantanamera to start off the day. great song. anyways, so we have about 7 songs mixed and i have to say they sound mazing. im personally most excited for 2 specific songs. one being a song called "kicking myself". a stripped down acoustic number that speaks of the uncertainty of love. lyrically my favorite song on the record, i get a lump in my throat listening to it. another one is a little tune named "love, love, love (love, love). sonically one of my favorites. in this song we had my sisters, brother and some of their friends come in and sing the chorus. in a strange way, it carries a sense of mystery and an overwhelming feeling of innocence at the same time. love exactly. listening to the mixes back to back, its all beginning to come together now and i believe this is going to be a special record for us. we've finally fallen into the grooves of it all, of what it is to be a band and in many ways rediscovered ourselves as musicians. I mean, ive never seen cliff play better in his life and to me he is the ringleader of this record. Ive been locked up in a room with him since summer playing these songs an endless amount of times and i still to this day air drum my ass off everytime i hear a mix. In turn, he has made me the player that i am today and i am most grateful for that. we've all been so influenced by one another as players and feed on eachother's energy. dan and sean have impressed me more than i ever imagined. dan's voice sounds better than it ever has. hearing him made me much more confident singing which is something that i wanted to work on considering the fact that all of us sing on the record at some point or another and we will all be singing on tour. speaking of tour! we leave in about a week for the spill canvas tour. it starts in good ol' Chicago so we have a decent drive ahead of us to the first show. we are really excited to get out on the road again and to play these songs out live. i feel like the road is where we belong. being home is always great for obvious reasons, but when you play music for a living the road is your home and im itchin' to get there. more and more touring is being scheduled as we speak so we are getting ready to be out for a long time. we'll see you at the shows so dont be stangers. hope all is well. p.s. the low end theory by a tribe called quest is a excellent record that all of you should own. love, julio
january 20, 2006 [by julio]
helllo kids...its 11 a.m and i just woke up to quite a gorgeous day. right now im listening to celia cruz's guantanamera to start off the day. great song. anyways, so we have about 7 songs mixed and i have to say they sound mazing. im personally most excited for 2 specific songs. one being a song called "kicking myself". a stripped down acoustic number that speaks of the uncertainty of love. lyrically my favorite song on the record, i get a lump in my throat listening to it. another one is a little tune named "love, love, love (love, love). sonically one of my favorites. in this song we had my sisters, brother and some of their friends come in and sing the chorus. in a strange way, it carries a sense of mystery and an overwhelming feeling of innocence at the same time. love exactly. listening to the mixes back to back, its all beginning to come together now and i believe this is going to be a special record for us. we've finally fallen into the grooves of it all, of what it is to be a band and in many ways rediscovered ourselves as musicians. I mean, ive never seen cliff play better in his life and to me he is the ringleader of this record. Ive been locked up in a room with him since summer playing these songs an endless amount of times and i still to this day air drum my ass off everytime i hear a mix. In turn, he has made me the player that i am today and i am most grateful for that. we've all been so influenced by one another as players and feed on eachother's energy. dan and sean have impressed me more than i ever imagined. dan's voice sounds better than it ever has. hearing him made me much more confident singing which is something that i wanted to work on considering the fact that all of us sing on the record at some point or another and we will all be singing on tour. speaking of tour! we leave in about a week for the spill canvas tour. it starts in good ol' Chicago so we have a decent drive ahead of us to the first show. we are really excited to get out on the road again and to play these songs out live. i feel like the road is where we belong. being home is always great for obvious reasons, but when you play music for a living the road is your home and im itchin' to get there. more and more touring is being scheduled as we speak so we are getting ready to be out for a long time. we'll see you at the shows so dont be stangers. hope all is well. p.s. the low end theory by a tribe called quest is a excellent record that all of you should own. love, julio