Seth Adam

Hello! I'm back from... well... I never really went anywhere. I've always been here, but not here. I don't know if that makes any sense necessarily, so I'll just leave it up to your interpretation.

Mostly, I've been focused on school and trying to make some money these past few months. I'm happy to report that paying attention to my collegiate career has paid off, as I once again scored a series of straight A's this past Spring semester, and am proudly upholding a 3.96 GPA. Only one more year to go and then out into the world of the worst economic condition in years. But alas... I've always been one to turn lemons into lemonade, and am already devising a most awesome plan to navigate these rough economic waters, even already implementing them.

On the money front (and this is where the blog title of 'Making some changes' comes in), I've just been trying to be smart, make good moves, using good judgment. Running a band is an expensive venture. I'm not complaining, but it's just not always easy. We put out a CD (Where You Come From) right on the verge of an economic meltdown and at a time when CDs just are not selling like they used to (some believe that music should be free - I disagree). But specifically on the topic of this blog, I decided to pull down my music off of MySpace. Perhaps MySpace will kick me off for saying the following (and quite frankly, don't care if they do), but I believe that MySpace makes a lot of money off of people providing content. Whether it's a band, a comedian, a movie maker, or even a regular user, all provide content making MySpace a destination for many. If you'll notice, YOU are bombarded with ads when you get here. My logic is this: You provide content. MySpace sells ads. MySpace makes a ton of money off of these ad sales, because MySpace is a destination due to uploaded content. Artists like myself don't receive any money for our content, even though it's used as a catalyst to slap an ad over. I think that's wrong.

In todays music industry, the old business model is DEAD. It's so dead it's turned into oil. Understand, music artists today have a difficult time just breaking even. One wonderful invention to help artists maintain a viable business has been the internet. Nowadays, there are websites dedicated to delivering great content that share their ad revenues with those that provide the content. I think that's the right thing to do. While I use a site that does such a thing, I'm certainly not getting rich off it. Hell, I couldn't even buy gas with that money. But the principle is something I greatly admire. It's something MySpace has never even attempted to do.

Therefore, I've removed my songs from MySpace. Now, there is a widget from ReverbNation (I encourage you to go there) that has replaced the MySpace music player. So, yes, there is still music on MySpace, but it's coming from ReverbNation. It may sound confusing, I know. It's like selling my own gourmet pizza in a Domino's pizza store, if that analogy helps.

In other news...

I'd like to give a great big welcome to Antonio's brother Gerard as the new bass player for the band. Gerard, like his brother, brings a lot of experience, professionalism, and talent to the group. He's a welcome addition to the family and we're all glad to have him aboard. That means that Fred is now free to use both hands and work his magic on the Rhodes. Sometimes 2 are better than 1!

We began recording in April and are intermittently returning to the studio, slowly finishing up the next record to release it in the fall. I don't really have too much info, other than we've finish basic tracking for "I Can't Wait To Let You Down," "Seventy Letters," "The Last One," "Not Sad To See You Leave," and "Vermont." You might recognize these titles from the Everything Is Something Else acoustic EP, and you'd be right. I brought these to the band and they just knocked 'em out of the park as full band renditions, that I just had to include them on the next record. Other working titles for songs we're working on are "Good Christian Woman," "June on a Spoon," "Because I Let You," "Stealing From Ourselves," and "Sunday Morning Got You Down." I still have a lot of writing to finish up, but I am working on it! Fear not! We're also gonna have some special guests on this record too, but more on that later.

Well, I'd love to keep writing, but I think it's time I put my stinky self in the shower. Besides, I'll save some stuff for the next blog.

Hope you're doing fine. Peace & love to you...

-SA