So we have a new CD in the works. It is sort of like what I was doing here, but it is on this other hosting site. It is much nicer:
As you can see it is pleasant to look at and similarly it is great for me. The benefits are: you guys get to see a wonderful new player complete with screensaver/visualization mode. So you get to enjoy full albums and songs while enjoying wonderful moving backgrounds. At least I think it does that... it should... I seem to remember putting that in there. Anywho...
The benefits for me is that I get to see how popular certain tracks are, and collect statistics on the frequency of songs played. And most of all, you can listen on your iPhones now. Right from this website if you browse here with your phone.
Music has been created and the uploads have been sparse. I will be attempting to add more music like I had been, but I have been pretty jaded with the hacking at the home office of the music. So I wanted to make sure I kept the reliance on that site very low. However, I realize that with a server and no reliance I am paying for nothing for $$$ a year.
Coming soon I will be reverting back to the old Following Satellites.com site. However like all things the site will be changing. From the unnamed players to players with the song names and the frequent stat checking technology I would like to have at my disposal. Also we will be having some great new features. The updates will be noted on the blog site. I have yet to fully design the new sites with my coding abilities as they are quite truncated. My old copy of Dreamweaver from college has gone missing, and I do not have enough money for the new version. So if anyone has a copy of that laying around I would LOVE a copy so I can start building a little faster than typing a single word, and then looking back at a website to see if I can go to the next word yet.
I have also been learning a bunch of JQuery to start building in that. Frankly, it is very confusing since I do not do it for a job and I have to learn by reading online and have no one to ask questions to. I suppose I could post in forums but I am terrible at speaking questions that I mean instead of making up questions that are irrelevant to what I really want to know. Cause frankly, I have no idea the right questions to ask.
So, the goal in the next month is to build a wonderful new Following Satellites.com site (not built yet 3-2-2011). With a collection of youtube videos in a special player and to have a bunch of our songs listed on the site in plain view for listening and listening in a jukebox type player.
With that said: I will not be making any more promises as I am already in WAY over my head with all the things I would like to have made, and I would like more to have been building them instead of talking about them. The downside is my Chrome laptop can type and update, but it cannot webdesign. Unless anyone knows of a web-based site builder that I can code and upload to my site using just the browser then I need to find a better way to build.
And now with THAT said: I have sheets and sheets of papers to make the best of what I have currently.
Here are some of the videos that we were talking about! Oh wait, did I not talk about them? If you are following us on the Following Satellites Facebook page then you already know about them, but if you do not yet follow that page, then I implore you to start following it now! And also you would have not seen these videos yet. So without further adieu:
This video is of the first practice we have had with our new drummer. The camera is a simple canon that badman walked around with for a second and then placed on a speaker. The rest is all captured with the tiny microphone on the camera. The drummer is playing this song for the first time that day. I think this one goes pretty well. Badman sounds like a recording, but rest assured he was there and making those sounds legitimately. Anyway this is the song we are launching our*single* as: No One at Your Door. You can find this for free download in pretty much any format you can think of at http://followingsatellites.bandcamp.com
This video is a continuation of the preceding video the camera is still sitting on the speaker and still recording. I forgot it was there and I forgot even more that it was recording. So I did not even notice when Badman picked it up to turn it off. This song is Empty Particles. It is a staple and if you have seen us play live, it was done last time acoustically, but it sounds so much more fun with the drums. The slowdown you might notice in the video is from the drummer and bassist following each other and then the rest of us responding to the slowing by slowing ourselves as we are good metronome followers. It is pretty funny how we can be so lead by the beat in music. Also I attempt to make a note that I just could not get to without warming up the voice. It made me laugh, hopefully it makes you laugh too!
Look forward to all this type of information on the new updated http://Followingsatellites.com/blog page. That will be soon, but again, I will need to find or buy a copy of Dreamweaver to make the speedy recovery and speedy updates I like to make.
It has been near an eon since I have been able to get back to this blog! I apologize, but I have been out of internet for some time and I have just recently received this blessed thing back into my house. With that said, there has been some dropping of the ball, and changes in the making.
For a review I can start with the stages of the "band." We have members, but we are spread thin like a pad of butter on sixty miles of dry toast. We have a new drummer though in the works. I think you will like him/her. They have been on the team for near the beginning but we never thought to use them in a live setting.
Our search for a completion to the band has been hard and the distance for the creeping along of the band has left me sort of ragged. I spend a lot of time creating and encouraging (in the way I encourage (belligerent nagging and living what I expect from others to do to me)) and hoping that we make is something about which we can be proud instead of music for the sake of money.
I am not alone in my desires, but the actual purpose is starting to escape me and I am not able to handle the demand for basic music. I want incredible and earth shattering and I have only been producing puzzles of music and complex designs unfinished and unposted. The very basics of music we have started to polish up and I am finding that I am struggling to make myself power through older stuff that isn't down right perfect. So I need to change a few things to make them more exciting; To the chagrin of the Badman. I think he will be fine with it in the long run, but the growing pains are becoming very real and some what painful... as it were.
As a month in review I have been slowing down because I am losing my roots, straying too far from my muse and wellsprings. So, I am going to go back to them and work on only music that Badman sends down to me for our project and leave the rest of the creation to my side projects. Places where I don't expect constant toiling and constant creativity from anyone but myself and I am free to be as daring as I want with music that might fail or be odd, but I will be fulfilled by it.
I am not the lead singer for Following Satellites and I need to remember that and leave the lyrics up to the Badman for the FS projects. So expect from us a lot more hip hop if Badman is up to it.
From now on I think this blog will be used for my experiments and like noted above my scratch pad for musics which are not Following Satellites productions. This will be again: The Ehk'olite (featuring BadmanJ)
As far as Followings Satellites is concerned visit: http://FollowingSatellites.com That should give you the best impression of work we are doing as a team. The production will be a lot nicer than this stuff, and the songs should be coming much more slowly there, but they might end up being of a higher quality. (Your preferences may vary)
For the BadmanJ in all his glory, check out http://badmanj.blogspot.com If that is not up yet, I will beg from the BadmanJ to get it working.
Howdy! We have a Blog up at http://FollowingSatellites.com/blog It contains a bit about us. As a Band called the Following Satellites. This will continue to be a Scratch pad of information and music for the band but recently we have been working on getting the songs up to par with that of what we want. So that means less new stuff and more of the same older stuff but made better. So far we have been working a lot on the No one At Your Door song, and trying to get that right. The BadmanJ has been with the condenser mic for a week or so now so those lyrics should be tightened up soon. And the other stuff I should be recording will be up as soon as the Badman get his stuff together.
Thank you all for listening and exploring our music. I must say I have been having a great time making everything for everyone, and I am sure the same could be said from Badman. But I'll not put words in his mouth.
I did not write anything of worth tonight but tomorrow I am hoping for a more exciting musical night. I wrote some stuff, but the music was less than 30 seconds long and fairly uninteresting so I am leaving it off for tonight.
The process tomorrow should knit together better.
Look forward to giving you move music on the morrow.
Hey now, I got it done under the wire tonight, but I did not post it in time, so this looks like it was done today, but it was actually Thursday when it was finished. So I still win... so far... Been wildly busy living a real human life, which is odd, but I am still able to get this music out to test me. As per usual!
A few seconds of silence on this one as well, be aware so you do not crank your headphones and kill your hearing with the initial blast of music.
An Updated Version of No One At Your Door. We are working on some visual aids to go along with this song. BadmanJ got his rap on for the end of the song. Enjoy it!
(Mixdown reveals a +7 dbs on BadmanJs vocals. Whoops)
Hey guys! And Gals! After being in the studio for most of the month trying to put on a live show with limited resources we are back to the starting point! And clearly screaming out of the gate with a few really fun songs!
This is the first of a few we are working on. This is a rough draft of a new song called: No one at Your Door. The badman has not yet gotten all of his words on the song, mostly due to my broken vocal cords the past few days. But I think the structure is pretty much complete. There may be slight changes later, but what Ehk'olite/Following Satellites song have I not changed slightly (or over eagerly) from the original.
We are still trying to find a good way to get HTML5 players made up. I know those on iPhones are having a few issues with our flash based players so we are working on it. Additionally we are working with the FollowingSatellites.com site.
The element of clean is what we are working for and I think we established that. However with a brand new unpackaged version of Dreamweaver from my archives that I thought lost; We can have HTML functionality in a WYSIWYG format again.
Hi ya! I am terribly sorry about shorting you guys out on music recently! But if you have not already heard, we have a band now! The name of the band is Following Satellites! Come over and visit us on our new website! FollowingSatellites.com You might recognize a few songs.
Right now we have been working diligently as a band trying to get together all of us and crank out some good old fashioned hits in the form of songs.
I have not been over here in some time, but I am scratching together other songs in the mean time I will get on this site in a few days, but for the most part I have been really hard at work perfecting the other songs for the show we have.
That is right, a show! October 15th, 2010! At Gullifty's Underground. Come see us play. The whole gang will be there: The Ehkolite, BadmanJ, Muzz, BoneJob, and Jmac.
Rap, Rock, and a whole lot of red and white! Come out and get a button or sign up for a post card mailing list!
