Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Update...
Sorry we haven't posted anything for awhile... we've been busy fighting off eskimos and caribbean pirates. Anyways there hasn't been a whole lot going on really with us, I suppose that's why we haven't updated for awhile. But none the less, we do have somethings to talk about. We have recently been put on itunes, which is pretty cool. So for all of you people who don't feel like going to our myspace and ordering the hard copy or coming to a show, you can sit on your ass and buy it straight from your pc, or mac... i'm a mac btw. Those commercials are the best... I'll post a link to that so you won't even have to open up your itunes, god i'm nice. We also have been continuing the long and painful writing process which happens to be going pretty good at the moment (knock on wood) we hope to have the album wrote by mid to late winter and then start on the fine tuning. Yep, life couldn't be better right now with the final hour... well we'll just leave it at that for now, don't want to jynx some news that has potential to be greater news! We'll fill you in about that probably later next month... Anyways that's all we got for you for now, stay warm and watch out for the piggy flu! Oh and btw why haven't I been hearing from you guys on here, I hear about it thru facebook and by word of mouth that people talk about our blogs but no ones brave enough to post a comment or show some love, come one people! We don't have to talk about TFH all the time... like I was just wondering, whenever you watch the Ellen Degeneres, do you ever get the feeling when she's talking to a female guest that she's thinking about what kinda panties that guest is wearing? I think she's a funny chick but the look she has in her eyes gives me the creeps... idk maybe its just me. And why is the Dr. Phil show still airing? Doesn't everyone know by now that its a scripted show? come one it's Jerry Springer without the fighting. Maybe if Dr. Phil started giving out free mustache rides i would watch but until that time he can take his shit haircut and dyed mustache and shove his shit show up his ass!
Friday, September 25, 2009
A desk with a man behind it
Today I am merely a man behind a desk typing on a computer, later i might pick up my guitar... i might not. We now have 5 songs completed with some vocals and some with no clue. The writing process is long and tedious and can take up to months and even years for some bands. For us, so far it's still in the months category. Each song has to fit with a chapter from a book that Riley wrote. This is a completely different writing style that most people including ourselves use. Most of the time you write a song, throw some words together and... Song! But we're trying to break the mold and make things more interesting. When you read you always have the vision of what the characters look like, the setting of the story and what it looks like to you... which is the beauty of a book over a movie. Music is like a book you listen to the music and the lyrics, the music gives you the mood and feeling and the lyrics run through your head and you relate them to your issues, good times etc. So i guess in a round about way, we're trying to make the ultimate sound track that describes the story. We're preparing to enter the preproduction stage of album, which is where we do rough recordings and review the album and decided on changes that better the album. After that point we'll proceed to the studio and polish the turd!
But both of those things are a good few months away, but our patience is wearing thin and we're ready to put new material out there. In the meantime, I'm just a man behind a desk with a guitar waiting on the write riff or chord progression to nail the story. My next song i need to write needs to be concerning and creepy to fit the story... I guess i need to quit watching the office, and Adam Sandler comedies....
Well I'm off to my principals!
don't let your meat loaf! ... or better yet don't even make it... it's gross
-man behind a desk
But both of those things are a good few months away, but our patience is wearing thin and we're ready to put new material out there. In the meantime, I'm just a man behind a desk with a guitar waiting on the write riff or chord progression to nail the story. My next song i need to write needs to be concerning and creepy to fit the story... I guess i need to quit watching the office, and Adam Sandler comedies....
Well I'm off to my principals!
don't let your meat loaf! ... or better yet don't even make it... it's gross
-man behind a desk
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
What we're all about
As you can probably tell by getting to our page that we're a band or if your over 50 a "musical group", not a middle aged husband or wife showing the world their weekend at party peir. However we hope to make friends with those average joes and hopefully open them up to a newer musical experience.
Where to begin... well we're all extremely young and fresh out of high school with tons of ambition, tattoos, and cigarette smoke. We drive a white 15 passenger van with skull and cross bones on the hubcaps and a trailer with a broken hinge and one fender well... yep its the life, when on tour you can probably find a cooler full of can goods and rayman noodles that suffices as our meal. The inside of the van would probably be covered with sleeping bags and a thick sheet of McDonald wrappers as a extra insulator. Oh! and i almost forgot, the fresh aroma of 5 sweaty unshowered men that tingles your nostrils. As Chad Kroger of Nickleback said it... I wanna be a rockstar, ha what a tool bag.
I guess if you've made it this far you can sense some resentment and anger of the false assumptions that everyone makes when you think of a "rockstar". The truth is that the music industry isn't what you think at all and we're here to tell ya! If I told you to name five rock bands of the top of your head i'm guessing some of the answers I would get would be: Nickleback, Daughtry, Hinder, Creed, and Buckcherry. Good for you, you can turn a radio on and listen and rock all day long to the biggest slap in the face to a musician. I guess I should back up a bit... we're not a mainstream band and don't sing about farming with green tractors, living it up with a rockstar lifestyle, or rap about whose color your representing. More than likely your saying to yourself what else is there, and if you really don't know then you should go read someone elses blog... i'll quit wasting your time. For those who stuck around, we write music that is "real". No structure, no boundries, and we bring it! We write some moderately heavy tunes and would probably rattle most of you who reading this hearing aids. Like I said earlier, we tour in a 15 passenger van, not a 50 foot long tour bus. The underground scene is where it's at folks... down right in the dirty with the fans and the cock roach hotels. Most of you probably won't understand why we would want to live a life out of a suitcase traveling in close quarters and for little income. Well to be honest with you we don't either sometimes... until you get back in the studio or on the stage when your packed in some back room of an appliance store that the owner rents to young kids for a way higher price than he should so they can have their favorite bands play a show. And in that room there may only be a crowd as big as 200 kids or it may be as big as 500 either way, its up close and personal and takes the show and the music itself to a whole other level. It's something that lots of people including yourself may never experience and its a damn shame. Tho it's not the glorious life of the rich and famous its our music and the real deal and what we're passionate about. No matter how many times you hear a hick yell out his window, "LONG HAIRED FAGS!" or a conservative/christian parent who complains that its not the way that the good lord or Reagan inttended us to live, you can't help but crack a smile and go on your way. We're a group of young men with good heads on our shoulders and full of life, we're happy and that's what life's all about!
Our new record that we're working on is a concept album. Our singer, Riley, wrote a short story about some events that happened in his life and metaphorically represents it as a classic superhero theme. Classy I know right?... it's better than hot tubs, and your favorite beer mixed with a great god and crazy people right, god i hate that song! We currently have one of the songs off that album posted on our myspace.... www.myspace.com/thefinalhourmusic. And to all of you that read this and made it this far... I challenge you to finish it by going listening to it and take what you can from it and see if you can relate to what we go through, and how we express it. Until next time i guess this is all!
don't let your meat loaf!
Where to begin... well we're all extremely young and fresh out of high school with tons of ambition, tattoos, and cigarette smoke. We drive a white 15 passenger van with skull and cross bones on the hubcaps and a trailer with a broken hinge and one fender well... yep its the life, when on tour you can probably find a cooler full of can goods and rayman noodles that suffices as our meal. The inside of the van would probably be covered with sleeping bags and a thick sheet of McDonald wrappers as a extra insulator. Oh! and i almost forgot, the fresh aroma of 5 sweaty unshowered men that tingles your nostrils. As Chad Kroger of Nickleback said it... I wanna be a rockstar, ha what a tool bag.
I guess if you've made it this far you can sense some resentment and anger of the false assumptions that everyone makes when you think of a "rockstar". The truth is that the music industry isn't what you think at all and we're here to tell ya! If I told you to name five rock bands of the top of your head i'm guessing some of the answers I would get would be: Nickleback, Daughtry, Hinder, Creed, and Buckcherry. Good for you, you can turn a radio on and listen and rock all day long to the biggest slap in the face to a musician. I guess I should back up a bit... we're not a mainstream band and don't sing about farming with green tractors, living it up with a rockstar lifestyle, or rap about whose color your representing. More than likely your saying to yourself what else is there, and if you really don't know then you should go read someone elses blog... i'll quit wasting your time. For those who stuck around, we write music that is "real". No structure, no boundries, and we bring it! We write some moderately heavy tunes and would probably rattle most of you who reading this hearing aids. Like I said earlier, we tour in a 15 passenger van, not a 50 foot long tour bus. The underground scene is where it's at folks... down right in the dirty with the fans and the cock roach hotels. Most of you probably won't understand why we would want to live a life out of a suitcase traveling in close quarters and for little income. Well to be honest with you we don't either sometimes... until you get back in the studio or on the stage when your packed in some back room of an appliance store that the owner rents to young kids for a way higher price than he should so they can have their favorite bands play a show. And in that room there may only be a crowd as big as 200 kids or it may be as big as 500 either way, its up close and personal and takes the show and the music itself to a whole other level. It's something that lots of people including yourself may never experience and its a damn shame. Tho it's not the glorious life of the rich and famous its our music and the real deal and what we're passionate about. No matter how many times you hear a hick yell out his window, "LONG HAIRED FAGS!" or a conservative/christian parent who complains that its not the way that the good lord or Reagan inttended us to live, you can't help but crack a smile and go on your way. We're a group of young men with good heads on our shoulders and full of life, we're happy and that's what life's all about!
Our new record that we're working on is a concept album. Our singer, Riley, wrote a short story about some events that happened in his life and metaphorically represents it as a classic superhero theme. Classy I know right?... it's better than hot tubs, and your favorite beer mixed with a great god and crazy people right, god i hate that song! We currently have one of the songs off that album posted on our myspace.... www.myspace.com/thefinalhourmusic. And to all of you that read this and made it this far... I challenge you to finish it by going listening to it and take what you can from it and see if you can relate to what we go through, and how we express it. Until next time i guess this is all!
don't let your meat loaf!
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