If you are one of the "lucky few" to have received one of the "special edition" NOMORE - Mental Slavery CD's (the one that has the extra 6 "secret" songs from our practice tape) then prepare to build your Ebay empire.  Those 6 songs, in their infant stages, recorded at a band practice will come to be a rare find.  In fact, I deny any knowledge of ever having burned those special edition Cd's.  We are currently recording those songs, for realz, in the studio... and they are sounding a bit different in their finished stages.  By "a bit different" I mean freakin awesome. 

Here's a snippet from our recording journal:   Day 156:   We awoke at dawn to make the long trek up the mountain road carrying the required 2 buckets of water a piece (just as we have done every day so far).  When we arrive, Rog Diddy Puffmaster, ushers us in and over to the PS2 Guitar Hero "training station" where we practice for hours...we are not allowed to touch any of the real equipment until we have mastered the pro-level of Guitar Hero and can play all of the Iron Maiden songs on "hard"...with "rock points".  We do this everyday, stopping only to eat our daily allowance of a lunch, vegetarian burritos from Burrito Brothers (who are the main supplier of food to all of the major recording studio empires).  We haven't been allowed to actually play any of the instruments on the recording yet, but we hear it sounds great and those studio musicians are doing a great job.  Today, Danny missed one of the solo sustains while playing "more than a feelin", which was a great dishonor.  To teach us a lesson, Rog Diddy Puffmaster made us walk to Ocala to buy him a piece of cheesecake.

We have recently acquired a new bass player (welcome Chris Hencher...have you heard the descendents?) and a new guitar player (welcome Sterlo S-rock Homeboy Liberation Esquire).  So for those of you keeping score that means we have 3 guitar players, a bass player, and a drummer.  I mean yeah, the sound is extra big and pretty rad now, but really we just wanted to beef up our team for cop fights and band kickball tournaments.  ;) 

Jesse has gracefully retired from NOMORE after playing bass with us for..what was it, 9 years?  Jesse and I have actually been playing together since pre-school, where he witnessed the wicked awesomeness of my strawberry shortcake doll (the one that blew strawberry kisses) and instantly knew it was "on".  Jesse often performed emergency mechanic duties on our van in parking lots across america, always brought a sleeping bag on tour and would always volunteer to sleep on the floor, giving up a comfy couch space to someone else, played kick ass bass, and is loved.  We salute you.

We have been working on a new recording, with studio time donated by Roger from LTJ/Rehasher.  He's really sweet and super creative.  We are working pretty hard, taking like a whole day to do guitars for one song and stuff like that.  Lots of layers! 

Also we have been playing lots of "guitar hero".