ahem... the album's done...
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 7:48 am
That's right, as of April 18th, "Poodle Hat" is completely mixed and mastered and on its way to being manufactured!
I think I made a post in here not quite a month ago, where I stated that we hadn't gone back in the studio yet, and despite a mysterious date of May 20th that was posted at weirdal.com at the time and presumed to be an album release date, how it would take a tremendous amount of effort to crank out 5 or 6 songs from scratch and wrap up everything in time to have an album on the shelves in literally 2 months... remember?
Well, I was telling the truth. We hadn't gone back yet (although we were about to on March 21,) and it was a tremendous amount of work! The band cranked out all the remaining basic tracks the first day, but that was just the beginning of non-stop, 12+ hour days for Al, who had allowed literally 27 days to cut those tracks, sing all of his parts, coordinate overdubs and additional instrumentation, and mix the songs - a seven day process itself - in order to meet an April 18th deadline to master Poodle Hat and get it into Zomba's hands by April 21st for release on May 20th!
Anyway, hats off to Al for sticking his neck out by announcing a release date before we were under way, and for actually making it all happen on schedule.
Al's very proud and happy with this album, and I think it represents everyone's best work.
And just so you know, as delicious and ostensible as a May 27th release might have sounded to everyone, Zomba (Al's label's parent label) only releases its products every other Tuesday - the next available release date would have been June 3rd.
You guys are gonna love Poodle Hat!
I think I made a post in here not quite a month ago, where I stated that we hadn't gone back in the studio yet, and despite a mysterious date of May 20th that was posted at weirdal.com at the time and presumed to be an album release date, how it would take a tremendous amount of effort to crank out 5 or 6 songs from scratch and wrap up everything in time to have an album on the shelves in literally 2 months... remember?
Well, I was telling the truth. We hadn't gone back yet (although we were about to on March 21,) and it was a tremendous amount of work! The band cranked out all the remaining basic tracks the first day, but that was just the beginning of non-stop, 12+ hour days for Al, who had allowed literally 27 days to cut those tracks, sing all of his parts, coordinate overdubs and additional instrumentation, and mix the songs - a seven day process itself - in order to meet an April 18th deadline to master Poodle Hat and get it into Zomba's hands by April 21st for release on May 20th!
Anyway, hats off to Al for sticking his neck out by announcing a release date before we were under way, and for actually making it all happen on schedule.
Al's very proud and happy with this album, and I think it represents everyone's best work.
And just so you know, as delicious and ostensible as a May 27th release might have sounded to everyone, Zomba (Al's label's parent label) only releases its products every other Tuesday - the next available release date would have been June 3rd.
You guys are gonna love Poodle Hat!