Back To Recording

This past week has ushered in a return to recording our first CD. A loose plan has been put in place. Avalanche has been nominated as the first tune we want to try completing. Since it's an instrumental and one of our oldest songs, that we know well, the thought is that it'd be good one help us get the smooth out any issues with the recording/overdubbing process. So far so good! Drums and bass tracks are down. Acoustic guitar and keys have been worked on too.

-Steve

Videos from our opening set for Fish

Here's a couple songs we performed at The Fox Theatre on June 12, 2008. Avalanche and Dark One:


Avalanche Live @ The Fox Theatre 6-12-08 from Steve Navarre on Vimeo.


Dark One Live @ The Fox Theatre 6-12-08 from Steve Navarre on Vimeo.

Pindral Pics from The Fox Theatre

We now have a couple cool collections of pics from our set taken by friends Dave Chambers and Kurt Brown. There's an album by each on my Photo Site.

Fish w/ C.A.R.S. T-shirt

During our sound check Jamie gave Fish the Colorado Art Rock Society T-shirt he's wearing at the meet and greet in Milwaukee. Cool!

FISH Show was fantastic!

Was a LONG day. Things went well though. Amazingly enough the Fox's stage was able to accommodate both band's gear. The folks at The Fox are an amazing bunch to work with...very professional and generous. We didn't get to really hang with Fish or many of the band members, but did get to watch their sound check and some brief exchanges with those guys. Favorite Fish moment was when we were doing sound check he came across the stage on the way to the greenroom and exclaimed sarcastically, "Jesus f*cking Christ, do you need all those f*cking drums!" (we had Jamie's drum kit, their drum kit and Scott's percussion rig up on stage) and gave us one of those classic big Fish grins. Jamie presented him with a Colorado Art Rock Society t-shirt...he thought it was cool.

Larry battled his way through his cold/lung infection (I think he drank about 6 gallons of various juices in the days before the show along with other remedies) enough to be able to perform his singing duties on Court of The Crimson Schizoid Man (which he did wonderfully) and Gretchen managed to make it to the theater just as we were to start doing song run throughs during sound check. (She was in Detroit on business earlier in the day).


Fish's set was fantastic! He really is quite the performer still and the band was very solid. His set blended selections mostly from Clutching at Straws and The 13th Star.

I'm guessing there was over 200 people there...not bad for a show like this on a Thursday night.

Our set seemed to be well received and we gave away over 50 free Pindral live CD samplers. Jamie looked stunning decked out in his kilt too!


I have a bunch more pics on my photo website.

Down The Stretch To The Fish Show!

We had our final rehearsal last night. Why three days before the show? Gretchen has to fly to Detroit for business and won't return until 5:00pm the day of the show. Fingers crossed for airline efficiency that day! In other band member news Larry has come down with some sort of cold-like thing and is resting at home today...good thing we have a couple days until the show. Hoping for a speedy recovery!

Anyway, I think we have a pretty entertaining set worked up. Hopefully we won't be one of those opening bands one hopes gets off the stage quickly! ;)

We're in the middle of producing 60 Pindral Live CD-R Samplers to giveaway at the show. It's a multi-media disc with both audio and video tracks on it. The audio tracks are new mixes from our 9-20-07 show at The Oriental Theater when we opened for Blue Oyster Cult's Joe Bouchard. They are soundboard/matrix mixes. Think they turned out pretty good. We'll have T-shirts and caps for sale too.

Yesterday we found out we can load-in early Thursday if we want so we hope we might get to help Fish load-in and maybe get to sit in on Fish's sound check. One concern we have is we have a lot of gear and since we're the support band we might be rather cramped on stage. I'm sure The Fox Theatre folks are used to this kind of situations.

Oh, a self-proclaimed prophet in Texas just predicted that Thursday, June 12, 2008 will be the end of the world. Hopefully that won't put a damper on the show. ;)

New Pindral Portraits

We had some fun on Memorial Day and had a Pindral BBQ/rehearsal/band pic day. Here's some favorites:

New Pindral Videos

These are from our Progenstein's Halloween Bash back in October 2007:


Usher Jam by Pindral @ Progenstein's Halloween Bash from Steve Navarre on Vimeo.

High Over by Pindral @ Progenstein's Halloween Bash from Steve Navarre on Vimeo.

We're Opening for Fish!

We are extremely honored and excited to announce that Pindral will be performing the opening set for the upcoming Fish show at The Fox Theatre in Boulder on Thursday, June 12th.

8:30 doors - 9:00 show
21+
$30

Tickets are available now: www.foxtheatre.com

Hope to see you there!

Onward Ho!

Here's some pics of the new digs. We've set up a control room in a spare room right off our basement practice room and have been testing the new equipment. Things are coming along nicely and work on the first tune has begun. The full collection of pics can be seen here.

A couple recent recording experiments:

Here's part of an improved jam Jamie, Dave and I did last rehearsal while waiting for the others to arrive.

And this is a little experimental ditty I made using one of Jamie's drum parts we recorded a couple weeks ago, then I added some synth parts to it. It's called Duke's Lost. Why Duke? Jamie's was practicing parts of the Duke "Suite" by Genesis.

Happy New Year!

We had our first band gathering last week. The goal was to map out priorities/goals for the coming year. Number one priority?

RECORDING A CD!!!

New mics, recording software and a multi-track computer interface have been ordered!