New Album....UPDATE.....

by **Joe Vana** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:52 pm

Hello All....

FS said I could put up an update since I have been receiving so much mail.....

The tunes are assembled and the finishing touches on a few arrangements are being tended to over the next few days....There are a bunch of surprises on this one and the material is stellar....a few would fit perfectly on WSC, and THTS....but there are a few amazing tracks that are just flat out new, almost current sounding.....This album fits no template, no canned rehashed crap...and the studio, well lets just say it will have the power of an album from the late 80's in the way of sonic quality...All Vintage gear, an amazing Vintage Neve board and not a bunch of cheap plugins....just 3 million dollars worth of the stuff that we are used to hearing an album recorded on, not just a computer.......I have been honored to live out a life's dream and write with this band and my closest friend....he has shown me what real songwriting is all about, CREATIVITY....not clothes, hair, image, ego....it is about creating art....and it has been a pleasure.....the recording starts mid next week and WILL be the album the fans have been asking for since 1995 or so....Robin will SMOKE on these tracks, and I have been as hard on him as anybody but I truly believe he is the man now...and after this album is done, you will concur that he is an amazing vocalist....This album will follow right where THTS left off....

I cannot wait for you guys to hear this monster....

JV

by **Tito** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:22 am

Is playing one's guitar behind their head creative? :wink:

by **Joe Vana** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:52 am

Tito wrote:Is playing one's guitar behind their head creative?

hahahahah......NO.....Ring me up.....JV

by **axecrew** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:52 pm

What album are you talking about? Mecca or survivor?

by **Joe Vana** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:12 pm

axecrew wrote:What album are you talking about? Mecca or survivor?

Survivor my man.....

JV

by **MarcelJordan** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:53 pm

Thanks Joe. Atleast we know what to sort of expect in a sense, what kind of sound we're gonna get. But let me ask you Joe, how many of the tunes have solo's in them? Thanks. You can give a percentage perhaps?

Marcel

by **axecrew** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:11 am

Joe Vana wrote:
axecrew wrote:What album are you talking about? Mecca or survivor?

Survivor my man.....

JV

AAHHH.....Didn't know you were that heavily involved in the survivor disc. Figured you were consentrating on Mecca.

by **jrnyman28** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:27 am

Joe Vana wrote:The tunes are assembled and the finishing touches on a few arrangements are being tended to over the next few days....There are a bunch of surprises on this one and the material is stellar....a few would fit perfectly on WSC, and THTS....but there are a few amazing tracks that are just flat out new, almost current sounding.....This album fits no template, no canned rehashed crap...and the studio, well lets just say it will have the power of an album from the late 80's in the way of sonic quality...All Vintage gear, an amazing Vintage Neve board and not a bunch of cheap plugins....just 3 million dollars worth of the stuff that we are used to hearing an album recorded on, not just a computer.......

This all sounds great!!

Joe Vana wrote:I have been honored to live out a life's dream and write with this band and my closest friend....he has shown me what real songwriting is all about, CREATIVITY....not clothes, hair, image, ego....it is about creating art....

So Frankie never wrote this way before? There was no creativity before? It was all about image? And who was pushing that?

Joe Vana wrote:and it has been a pleasure.....the recording starts mid next week and WILL be the album the fans have been asking for since 1995 or so....Robin will SMOKE on these tracks, and I have been as hard on him as anybody but I truly believe he is the man now...and after this album is done, you will concur that he is an amazing vocalist....This album will follow right where THTS left off....

I cannot wait for you guys to hear this monster....

JV

Again, all sounds cool!

by **MarcelJordan** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:22 pm

Meanwhile Robin has been busy having recorded a tune for X-Men: Origins soundtrack. Gimme One More Shot

by **Franky** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:57 pm

Man I hope Joe ur right to speak in those high words ... is it the singer - not the song, or the song and not the singer - or maybe both this time?
Hope Mecca 2 will be released soon too!

by **ForceInfinity** » Mon May 04, 2009 11:08 am

jrnyman28 wrote:
Joe Vana wrote:The tunes are assembled and the finishing touches on a few arrangements are being tended to over the next few days....There are a bunch of surprises on this one and the material is stellar....a few would fit perfectly on WSC, and THTS....but there are a few amazing tracks that are just flat out new, almost current sounding.....This album fits no template, no canned rehashed crap...and the studio, well lets just say it will have the power of an album from the late 80's in the way of sonic quality...All Vintage gear, an amazing Vintage Neve board and not a bunch of cheap plugins....just 3 million dollars worth of the stuff that we are used to hearing an album recorded on, not just a computer.......

This all sounds great!!

Joe Vana wrote:I have been honored to live out a life's dream and write with this band and my closest friend....he has shown me what real songwriting is all about, CREATIVITY....not clothes, hair, image, ego....it is about creating art....

So Frankie never wrote this way before? There was no creativity before? It was all about image? And who was pushing that?

Joe Vana wrote:and it has been a pleasure.....the recording starts mid next week and WILL be the album the fans have been asking for since 1995 or so....Robin will SMOKE on these tracks, and I have been as hard on him as anybody but I truly believe he is the man now...and after this album is done, you will concur that he is an amazing vocalist....This album will follow right where THTS left off....

I cannot wait for you guys to hear this monster....

JV

Again, all sounds cool!

Well, the Reach album was largely alot of rehashes from the aborted FMS album, and JJ was apparently so fed up with the way some of the songs were going that he wouldn't sing. And Reach wasn't even that great of an album

by **Joe Vana** » Tue May 05, 2009 4:09 pm

Franky wrote:Man I hope Joe ur right to speak in those high words ... is it the singer - not the song, or the song and not the singer - or maybe both this time?
Hope Mecca 2 will be released soon too!

I am busy finishing Mecca...it is priority 1......
See ya.....JV

MR

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