Album Update and Pre-order Show on 4/27 @ La Boca
LOTS OF NEWS FOR YOU! We are almost done with our album and hope to have it to you by late spring or early summer! Recording is 99% complete and mixing and mastering is left to do!
You asked about a pre-order for our fast approaching new album, well here it is! Join us on Friday, April 27, 2012 at the BRAND NEW LA BOCA RESTAURANT for this awesome show! Check out this promotional video for the event here.
In addition to an awesome show, we will be taking pre-orders for our album at the show. Just bring $10 ($3 extra if you are choosing the ship-to-home option) and the album will be all yours on the day we launch! We are shooting for a late spring launch for the album so your wait will not be very long!! Check out this brand new album teaser video
We have been working very hard for a long time to make this album great and your support will ensure even greater success. Your pre-orders will greatly help us when it comes to covering the final costs associated with completing the album.
First and foremost let’s not loose focus that this will be a great night as we will be playing a GREAT ROCK SHOW ALL NIGHT FROM 9-12:30! The show will feature many of the songs to be on our upcoming album as well as loads of awesome rock songs. On Facebook? “Like” us and RSVP to the Facebook event here.
EVEN MORE… Be sure to come out to experience the BRAND NEW LA BOCA! The club has been working extremely hard to bring the restaurant to a new location across the street from it’s the old restaurant. This new location boasts more room, a larger stage, and a more comfortable environment for all. As always, La Boca continues to have the best Mexican cuisine around so make sure to come down early for an awesome dinner before the show! Their full menu can be found at the link above.
Tell your friends and family that this is an event not to miss! See you all on the 27th!!
Posted on April 23rd, 2012
Organ/Piano/Keyboard tracks layed down!
Hello All!
Well I think all of us in the band agree that the album is coming along spectacularly! This past Saturday I personally had the pleasure of filling out the basic tracks with a number of very cool organ, acoustic (grand) piano, and other keyboard parts. It was very awesome to play on the actual Hammond B3 organ with Leslie speaker as well as the Yamaha c3 grand piano.
Posted on March 30th, 2012
Recording Mid-process update
Howdy! Sorry it’s been so long since I last wrote, amazing how busy life gets! Anyway, first order of business, come see us play live this Friday, March 16 at The Hungry Tiger in Manchester! For those of you who have been asking, you CAN still access our main web page at the bottom of this screen or right here: http://rotaryband.com/index.html We’ll try very hard to make sure that stays up to date.
Anyway work in the studio is progressing very nicely. We are about halfway through the proccess now. As you know we have all the basic tracks completed, but we now also have all of the lead guitar parts recorded. Jack worked very hard along with our producer and engineer extraordinaire in the studio. Lots of the parts have been re-worked and freshened up a lot, so expect a very fresh take on lots of the songs from what you are used to hearing live.
After a show this weekend we head back into the studio so that I can begin work on all of the keyboard/piano/organ parts for the album. As we speak I am sitting at home hashing out some sweet new parts to dub in over what’s shaping up to be a great album.
We’ve been having and absolute blast making this album so far, but funds are getting tight! We are throwing around different ideas as to how we can raise a little extra cash, whether it be some kind of fundraiser, a collection, or simply just more shows. Either way, you can help us by just coming to our shows and getting the word out about us! Every person that you bring to our next show is another potential fan and that’s what we are looking for! So please continue to tell your friends about us and support us as you have been doing for the past 4 years now!
Well it’s been great talking to you and I will be sure to try to update this thing more frequently and keep you apprised as to our most recent progress on our album. See you at The Hungry Tiger on Friday, we can’t wait!
- Bob
Posted on March 13th, 2012
Recap from Day Two
First of all, be it known that we have a SHOW THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 27th at The Hungry Tiger in Manchester. SHOW START PROMPTLY AT 8 PM! Full show details can be found here at the Facebook event page.
So this is the recording blog, so let’s talk recording. We woke up bright and early this past Saturday to a pretty decent snow storm. The ride up to the studio was dicey but not impossible, I put a couple pictures of that up on our Facebook and Twitter feeds if you want to check those out.
Work in the studio went extremely well. We completed recording the rest of the basic tracks for the album, and we all feel really good about the shell of our album that is the basic tracks. I was privileged to play an actual vintage Wurlitzer electric piano on the recording of a couple songs so far. And even more fun, I got to record on a beautiful Yamaha C3 grand piano that is in the studio! I really need to get one of those! Pictures of both should be forthcoming. We also captured some pretty good footage that we can hopefully use towards the end of the project to create some great videos.
Anyway, now that the basic tracking is completed, the fun can really begin! When we go back into the studio we will be focusing on the nitty gritty of the details, vocals, and lots of other good things. We are really excited about the tools we have at our disposal, i.e. a state of the art studio with a real Hammond B3 organ, the extreme knowledge of the studio staff, and of course the creativity and skill of everyone in the band!
Overall, the process has been hard work and fairly demanding but we are all very happy with the results so far. Not to mention it has been lots of fun. When you come out to the show on Friday, we can definitely talk to you more about anything and everything band, recording, or music related. We also appreciate any support we can get! As always, if you have any questions or comments they can be sent directly to me at bob@rotaryband.com.
- Bob
Posted on January 24th, 2012
Photos from Day Two
Posted on January 24th, 2012
Welcome to the Rotary Blog: First Recording entry
So this is my first Rotary blog entry! I’m not really sure how to write this blog, so any suggestions or questions regarding the process are VERY welcome! You can email me directly at bob@rotaryband.com with any feedback…
Anyway we are very excited to tell you what we’ve been up to for the past few months that we’ve been MIA from the gigging scene! We have been hard at work preparing the songs for our new album for the recording process. That entailed picking apart our songs and really getting them exactly right, lots of these songs we’ve been playing out live for awhile, so adapting them to work on a studio album has been a bit of work.
This past Saturday we finally began the recording process! The studio is awesome and is exactly what we were looking for. Our search was long and hard to find a studio that met our needs. We ended up in an awesome studio in West Springfield, MA called Rotary Records! Yes that is actually the name of the studio! Anyway this place is awesome because it is in this huge old converted church has has a HUGE live area. Each of us can be in our own sound proof room to record all of the basic tracks in a live setting. There should be some pics of the first day right here on our blog!
On our first day of recording we successfully got through the basic tracks for 6 of the songs on our album! Basic tracking for those of you unfamiliar means that we recorded the shell of each song in a live fashion, that is the drums, guitars, and bass have all been recorded live to get the basic song structure committed to tape. We will head back to the studio this coming Saturday and with fingers crossed, get 6 more basic tracks done.
Also, this week, we are hoping to get a bit of video footage of the session recorded so that we can make some sweet videos of the sessions and show you all first hand what we are doing and how much fun we are having doing it. We are just a bit worried about the snow in the forecast, but I think that we will get ourselves up to the studio no matter what happens.
Ok, well this project is still in the early stages of the recording process and I am still trying to figure out what exactly to tell you about the process and what you want to know about. So like I said earlier, send me an email if you have any questions or feedback and I’d love to address them in my next entry!
Keep rocking!
- Bob
Posted on January 19th, 2012
Photos from Day One
Posted on January 16th, 2012