#electricforall

Once the album was done we gave it a serious listen and decided it needed another track, so while we were getting the cover art ready with our amazing friends Steven 'Nudge' Nagy ( @artofnudge ) and our digital painter and longtime collaborator Andre Fernandes, we took the opportunity to write one more song, Electric for All. This is a song that we could inject our overall philosophy into a 3 minute catchy number to tie the whole thing together. Anyway, most musicians spend years writing their first full length album where we on the other hand wrote it while we were recording it. That way we got messages, feeling, emotions and conflict from the process IN the music as we were creating it. For me that made all the difference. We are enjoying it as it was new, not tolerating songs that we've ground into dust having played them for ten years prior to recording them.

One final word; a special shout out to EGHradio for our recent Twitter interview (that can be accessed HERE).  We had such a good time doing this! We hope that our music reaches new ears as a result because being in a band and making music is just so much damn fun! Sure it is serious work and we don't take it lightly at all, but when you're working for free you better be having fun! What's so wrong with that?

Oh, and also be sure to check out our EGH artist page HERE.

Then I met Orange Mic; a crazy Romanian guitarist and producer with a passion for rock and heavy metal.

At first we couldn't have been further apart in our approaches. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE heavy rock, otherwise I wouldn't be playing in TWENTY6HUNDRED, but at that moment I was being wooed by the softer organic sounds of indie acoustic music and Mihai was deeply rooted in Nu Metal.

  But Mihai was very persuasive. His passion for hard rock was palpable. The songs he was bringing in were quite heavy, calling for a vocalist seemingly beyond my abilities. We found ourselves in a situation, we enjoyed each other’s musical company, were musically compatible, for the most part; shared common interests and enough differences to be able to learn from each other. Time passed and I was not really digging on the tunes we were making. But I didn't want to pull the plug, as it is not often you come across someone as talented and as passionate as an Orange Mic; a couple of times in your life if you are supremely lucky. So, I knew I had to tough this out and see where it would go. At some point, we exhausted his catalog of tunes he'd brought to the table and pretty much stamped out my acoustic aspirations in the process. Then, out of nowhere, I started writing rock songs.

  A lot of them, I started dominating the riff writing, churning out LOTS of material in a very short period of time. I consider this period during the creation of our latest album Electric for All, one of the most intensely creative periods of my musical life. Not to take all of the credit, Mihai was crucial in taking my avalanche of uncatalogued riffs and helping me, spending hundreds of hours, turn them into songs. The fire then spread amongst the band and Randy and Jim started writing and sharing as well. It was magic, our sound was coming together, our recording was going very well and to our collective surprise and delight fast forward a year, we released Electric for All.

I am so happy I did not stick to my guns and go it alone. Electric for All represents so much of what I love about music without it being too much me. I am so very pleased that we came together as a band and created this new album. I am particularly pleased that we wrote and recorded in the studio, giving us the time to really embrace our creativity and collaboration. It may never mean as much to you but for me it represents a very special period, one that I can relive forever for it has all been captured on the disc and downloads. Before I sign off this week I have to say, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Orange Mic as well as Randy and Jim from TWENTY6HUNDRED, for putting up with me, and co-creating what I consider the best work I’ve ever been a part of in my entire musical career.

  Thanks guys!

Cheers,