PictoVisage, Focused on the vision
Thu May 29, 2008 3:18 am
News
We are sorting. O my, are we. The world is big. We are small. Opportunities
are endless. Speaking of endless, I hope you understand the depth of
Sherri's words: "we will never stop making music just for you". This
commitment is at the core of Eisley's essence. Yes, we are maneuvering
through the dark waters of a troubled record industry...
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Starting from the beginning (news article continues below):
I have so many images. An entire tour worth of images. These aren't
especially special... but I have to begin chipping away somehow. Mostly,
I'm posting pics as an excuse to say hi and download info to you guys.
We are back. You knew that.
Post Tourdom
We are recovering... recovering means dealing with the concavity of
post-tour mordemness; (nah) It's more like what astronauts experience
just after re-entry. Dizzy. Dis-oriented. After 3 days, I feel very here. And I
love it. Only - making 4 trips to the small engine repair joint to by parts for
my crapped out Weed Eater wasn't so fun today. Not being able to fix it
after cleaning spark plug (searched all over Tyler for a stupid 3/4" socket),
cleaning carburetor, replacing all fuel hoses, replacing rubber fuel primer
pushy button thingy, replacing broken trigger, testing fuel mixtures was
even worse. Not being able to edge my driveway destroyed my yard-man
karma. So i pulled weeds while getting eaten by mosquitoes while talking
Eisley biz on my cell. My Kim loved me for that (the weeding by hand part).
(misspelled Palace. sorry)
News
We are sorting. O my, are we. The world is big. We are small. Opportunities
are endless. Speaking of endless, I hope you understand the depth of
Sherri's words: "we will never stop making music just for you". This
commitment is at the core of Eisley's essence. Yes, we are maneuvering
through the dark waters of a troubled record industry; but the new,
emerging 'music industry' is not so full of despair; not so impossible to
navigate. We are charting out new direction... we will adventures. I am now
managing the band and have a great association with a new group of
thinkers/movers/music-lovers/shakers. That's all I'm going to say right now
about all of that. It's an exciting time. I can only reveal small morsels of
candyment at this time. You know my style by now: cautious, discreet,
guarded, enticing, alluring... I tempt you to hate me by with-holding
secretive information from you until my golden-brown, mystery cakes are
out of the oven. Maybe I'll let you put icing on them.
Eisley is not in a contest. Eisley is not competing with anyone. There are
none in our race. Losing is not an option. There are bigger bands, smaller
bands, faster bands, slower bands, bands that hit it big, bands that quit
because they aren't winning. Eisley isn't in this to win. Eisley is in this to
make a special kind of music... (for you). It might sound cheesy, but our
earliest sites bare this very motto ('A Special Kind of Music Is for You').
Nothing has changed. Expect consistency. Expect record after record.
Expect touring. Expect to have eisley songs accompany your lives as you
live it out.
But don't expect us to do things normal from this point forward. That
doesn't mean we try to do things unconventional. For example, WB is ready
for the band to start recording new music... shorter record cycles, parcels
of songs (not unlike an ep equaling a part to an eventual whole); but the
record industry is changing. Continuing means shifting to new
arrangements. It's all interesting. But nothing will ever be the same again.
We are also talking about recording a song or two with the band's happy
thought studio: Rosewood, here in Tyler. How long have we been talking
about that? Time to do it.
And there will undoubtedly be more touring. This year. If so, with other
bands... bigger bands; time to reach out beyond our base. No more touring
w/ punk bands, harder rock bands. From now on, only tours that absolutely
make complete sense. Make sense?
Does it also make sense to introduce Eisley to the world? Canada, for
example, is a good place to start. Saturation cannot be reached by touring
Montreal and Toronto alone. We have foreign soil right across the border.
It's our opinion and I think you guys have echoed this - but Eisley should
be a world band. US radio will probably never give Eisley air-time, but
Europe is entirely different; Japan - entirely different. Eventually, we will
return to Australia.
When I was a kid, we had a book entitled, "You Will Go to the Moon".
Maybe it was a lofty goal... people riding around on the lunar surface in
little buggies. I don't care about the moon. Our new book is titled: "Eisley
Will Go to the Earth". Maybe not immediately... but it will happen.
Stay tuned.
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