Great Unknown Photo-Blog Part 4

Great Unknown - Release Show - December 5th, 2009 @ The 8x10 - Baltimore, MD


Funky riffs and faces

K and B fueling the party

Ry gets his rim-shots workout

Some of the lovely folks in attendance - braved the first snow of the winter to be there!

Thank you for the support

Great Unknown Photo-Blog Part 3

Great Unknown - Release Show - Decemeber 5th, 2009 @ The 8x10 - Baltimore, MD


From the side of the stage

Bargain Jargons getting in touch with their inner penguin and tea-kettle for "Before Now"

"Well I did not know you was you..."

"But I was looking anywho..."

This photo reminds me of confetti-cake

Great Unknown Photo Blog Part 2

Part 2 -


Kenton bringing his game (I would say A-game, but thats the only kind he has)

Ryan drummed so fast on "New Umbrella" that he was blurry - Note to indie musicians -Make sure the metronome click-track in the headphones isn't so loud that it gets picked up on the recordings of the drum tracks - one of the many things I've learned the hard way.

Judging by the capo position, I think I was working on "Mindy" here - I'm playing my bread-and-butter at-home first-ever acoustic guitar that my parents got me for my birthday in 1998.

Kenton recorded directly into the computer (not into a microphone which would pick up any noise), so he could jam along with the play-back of the other tracks. I would listen from my kitchen or family room and run downstairs when I heard an idea I wanted to keep or explore. As he ripped his piano solo at the end of "Drop These Blues", I knew what I was hearing performed live would be on the record.

Great Unknown Photo-Blog Part 1

Here's Part 1 of a Photo-Blog of the Great Unknown experience - To start, some studio shots. As you can see it was a very modest basement home-studio. It just goes to show - we willed a way (and couldn't have done it without some very generous friends).

The Battle Station - My ol' chunky PC from college with an outdated music software program, A 12-Channel Mixer, some microphones, and a few trusty instruments. Nothing like trying to be artist, engineer, and producer all at once.

A glimpse of the drums and my pedal board (Did you know? Only 2 songs on GU have electric guitar tracks, "Bohemian" and "Great Unknown")

Ryan's view from his throne - even sneaking the cable up through his drums (and t-shirt), the headphones barely reached

Max and momma would visit for dinner and a nap while his pops laid tracks

Writing / Rehearsing a part with Keys and all-around music extraordinaire Kenton Dunson - We'd brainstorm an idea, hit record, and let it happen