I finished the rough instrumental mixes on 13 of 14 songs on the new album today.

To my chagrin, or maybe more like unceasing frustration, I'm gonna have to re-record the guitar parts on the choruses of song 14. Actually, I probably won't be able to exactly match the tone of the original parts, so rather than just punch-in the replacement parts, I'll end up re-recording all the guitar parts. Drag.

Should be able to get it done in a couple hours though, so not a huge deal I guess.

The other songs are sounding pretty good. There's only one song of the 14 that might not make it to the album. It's temp title is Summertime. It's a remake of a song I wrote while in high school. The remake just doesn't have much spark to it, unfortunately. So, I'll likely shelve it for now and maybe work on it again in another 10 years :)

I checked the running time, and it looks like I've got about 14 minutes free. This means I may put together an instrumental track -- something with lots of indulgent guitar playing. We'll see how it goes.

After this project is done, I'm hoping to finish a 4 song project with Wayde Cooper. It's a demo we recorded way back in the 90's but never finished. I have one song, Wayde has two, and the final song is from Nicolas Valenz. My hope is to get Wayde, Nick and myself collaborating to finish the songs. Dave Beardsley is on drums, btw. His parts are done, and they are killer!

With that complete, I'll get back in touch with Peter Orullian, to get (re) started on Inner Resonance's second album. This will be a concept album. Peter already has an excellent story ready -- I hope I can come up with music worthy of it.

I do have quite a bit of music demoed for the second IR album, but listening back to it, I'm not content. I think -- I know -- I can do better.

Back to the current project, I'm thinking as I type this that I may put some excerpts up on this page and my website. I hesitate a little because they are works-in-progress. Then again, I ain't famous, so what should I be worried about? :)

Alright, back to work. Gotta, gotta finish this album.