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January
March
March 25 Today I recorded two songs for Early Grave, "Unanswered Prayers" and "Too Late To Cry". March 24 Today I re-recorded "Close My Eyes To Dream" for Urban Legacy Vol. II. It's over an Evanescence instrumental and has a rock chorus. March 20 Today I recorded another track for Early Grave, a song called "Paranoid" about my girl cheating on me and going to confront her about it. The story has a surprise ending also. March 19 Today I recorded "Everything You Really Need" for Early Grave. It's a love song over a dark guitar instrumental, it was actually the first song written for the album. Hit material. March 16 Today I recorded another one for Early Grave called "Let Me Fall". It's from the point of view of my teardrops, trying to convince me to cry. March 12 Today I recorded "The Last Second" for Early Grave. It was one of the songs I had to figure out what beat it went to and I finally found the right one. It's about committing suicide but pulling the gun away at the last second. March 6 Today I recorded "Shadows" and "Time After Time" for the Early Grave. "Shadows" is a song about my past haunting me and I fight with it, the second verse is from the shadows point of view and in the third we argue. I used a deep dark voice because no effects were sounding quite right on it. "Time After Time" is an angry song about people taking and taking but never giving back, yet still expecting more. March 5 Today I recorded "Death Of A Don" for Early Grave. This song comes after I die on the album and is like a parade through the streets, celebrating and mourning my death. In it I talk about why we kill each other, our purposes in life and death and how it feels to see people's reaction to your passing. March 4 Today I recorded "Another Lonely Tombstone" and "Please Forgive Me" for the Early Grave album. "Another Lonely Tombstone" is from the point of view of my tombstone when I'm dead, to me it is a very sad song, very painful and true. "Please Forgive Me" is one long verse, no chorus where I ask forgiveness from everyone I feel I have ever wronged. I use names in this one which makes it even more real, it is a very emotional song. March 2 I just finished recording "The Studio's A Tomb" for the Early Grave album. I got most of it on video camera but it ran out of room like always. That song is about the old Dungeon studio, where Royal Kingdom started and ended and it touches on the history of it and what it meant to everyone who ever worked in it.
Jan. 30 I finished writing a song today entitled "Let 'Em Go" which is about letting go of friends you don't need, questions that can not be answered and all preconcieved notions. Jan. 29 Today I recorded "The Chain" and "Downpour" for the Early Grave album. "The Chain" is a song in which I have a conversation with my necklace and "Downpour" is a dark song about constantly living in rainy conditions and waiting for the sun to shine. Jan. 7 Today I recorded "Another Page" for the Early Grave album. It is the third out of 19 songs I have recorded for it so far. The song is about running out of rhymebook pages and always needing to write more. God it feels good to be back on the mic spitting that hot shit! Jan. 6 Today I finished a song I started writing on Jan. 2. "If They Only Knew The Half" is about people not really knowing who I am up here in Maine and wondering what they would think if they saw my past. Jan. 5 Today I recorded "Blind Sometimes" for Lost In The Night. It is a two verse love song, one of my old partners Pathologic was supposed to do the middle verse but we didn't record the song before we had our falling out (his verse wasn't good enough anyway) so I left it as my two verses and a chorus. Jan. 2 In the past week I have written a few songs, all for Urban Legacy Vol III. One was a song about a girl I know going through a hard relationship which I called "Broken Smile" and it will be recorded on a country beat by Keith Urban. I also wrote a punchlines track entitled "Bring It Still", I have not picked a beat for it yet. I wrote a political song, "Revolution's Beyond Us", on a Black Market Militia instrumental. I also did a song called "If They Only Knew The Half" which is about people knowing me but not really knowing who I am and where I've been.
April
June
April 23 Last night I finished up writing a song called "Made Myself" about becoming who I wanted to become regardless of anything else. And today I recorded "Soldier In War", the eigth track for The Days Of A Knight album. April 19 I finished writing another song for Urban Legacy Vol. III today called "Just Another Block". It's written on an AZ instrumental called Street Life. In the song I talk about living in the streets and how we never realize we need to change until it's too late. April 14 The "Photo Gallery" part of the site is now up and running. The pictures are hosted by Photobucket, just click on the link and then the set of pictures you want to look at. April 4 Today I recorded "Inner Peace" for Early Grave and "True" for Urban Legacy Vol. II. The revised edition of Legacy II is now complete and Early Grave only needs one more track. April 2 Today the promo CD was released. It is fourteen track sampler for my music that is being given out for free. It contains seven songs and seven snippet tracks for my albums. It is available at Bullmoose Music in Bangor on the front table.
June 9 Today I recorded "Just Another Block" for Urban Legacy Vol. III. That's the third track recorded for the album, twenty written. I will probably write another ten and pick the cuts that'll make the album. June 5 Today I recorded the second song for Urban Legacy Vol. III, "If They Only Knew The Half". It's about people here in Maine not really knowing me, only seeing one part of who I am. June 4 Today I recorded "Murder They Wrote" for Urban Legacy Vol. III. It's a political song attacking the government and certain groups of people, very controversial material and one hell of a song. June 1 Today I recorded the Heat Of The Moment Intro for the album. It's a two page verse/spoken word followed by a short monologue over a dark opera piece. (P.S. Sorry for not posting anything lately, I was in a car accident in early May and haven't worked on much music since then.)
August
July
July 28 Yesterday I re-recorded "Love Again" for Urban Legacy Vol. I with Ralph replacing me on the chorus. However, today the song was erased when the power went out, even though the song was saved. Looks like I'll be re re-doing this one. July 14 While in CT I got together with Ralph while he was back in the U.S. We recorded a bunch of choruses for various albums including "My Eyes For Her" and "Love Again" both revised for Urban Legacy Vol. I. We also did "Knight Forever" and "As It Slips Away" for Urban Legacy Vol. II and "Until I Die" and "My Destiny" for Dead In A Dream II. He also sang on "Lost For Words" for The Days Of A Knight album to replace my chorus. July 1 Today I recorded "Chasin' My Life" and "Fight Back", both for Urban Legacy Vol. III. Chasin' My Life is a calm song about chasing dreams and Fight Back is an amped up, loud, anti political song about fighting back against your oppressor, whomever it may be.
Aug 1 Well I re re-recorded "Love Again" today and it actually came out better than the other redone version and this one did not get erased, I did however take my chances and recorded it right before a thunderstorm came though. I got all the verses on here on the first try.
September
October
Sept 30 Sorry it's taken so long to post anything, my computer was not letting me get onto the site. Unfortunately my recorder has passed away, about a week ago it decided to stop turning on. I have a new portable pocket studio coming in the mail right now so I will be recording again very soon. Of course this means I will have to re- re- re-record Love Again because the songs on the recorder are lost.
Oct. 20 Just finished recording "As It Slips Away" for Legacy III which features Ralph on the chorus. It's a slow song over a piano and violin and has no drum beat. Oct 6 Today I recorded "Rain Down" for Urban Legacy Vol. III. It was supposed to come out being a short song but ended up being 3:45. I wrote it with the intention to put it on the UL3 bonus disc but it could still possibly wind up on the album. Oct 5 I recently got my new portable recorder and dropped my first song on it today. I did "Overcome" for a currently unknown album. It is scheduled right now to appear on a Knights album currently titled Equinox but plans may still change. It is on a VTZ instrumental, we plan on using his beats for every song on this album as of now.
November
Nov. 14 Just wanted to let ya'll know that I haven't disappeared. I haven't recorded or anything songs lately, I've actually been working on memoirs for each album and extensive song descriptions. I am currently working on the memoirs for Urban Legacy I and have completed them for Rumorz Of War but still have to write about each song.
