EisWood #3 Clip
Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:04 am
Shot from Summer '08 shoot in Tyler w/ Chris Phelps. Read more below.
Note: Click link for SMARTPHONES: (iphone/BB's/handhelds)
YouTube has not figured out that 60% of the public using cells are accessing the web through their hand-held device. Eisley's YouTube Channel uses flash interface - therefore iphone's & Blackberries are missing this new clip. Even if there is a work-around, what % of users have it?
Clip lives on our YouTube channel. Leave a comment here and/or there if you're feeling it. thnx.
EISLEY LP3
Sorry for posting such few clips (hey - Sherri also posted!). We will push more of this kind of inside media as we approach the finish line. Also, when we get a release date, wb will join in with bigger guns. For now, it's all us... just as it should be.
FYI - on progress: this album has been produced in 2 halves. That's a Gary Leach (co-producer) agenda that makes sense to everyone's brain. Remember the days of side 1 and 2? So it goes: pre-production cycle followed by tracking > rough production mix. Repeat. They only have 1 more pre-pro sesh' (always wanted to say pre-pro sesh' just so i could hate myself) Monday night and Eisley begins tracking 2nd half next week. We're getting great (best ever) reaction from the production mixes at the Bunny. All systems go. No release date yet. Lots of sprinkles to put on first half, volumous work to accomplish on 2nd half. I vow to film more.
SEGUE PHOTOSHOOT
We pulled off an exciting photo-shoot last year - mid-July - almost exactly 1 year ago predicting we'd be at a good place to start thinking about press, cd graphic images, etc. I loved that shot. Chris Phelps is quite amazing. We all scouted, art directed, the band did their own fashion, etc but Chris gets the cred'.
AT this point, this shot should serve as a foretaste of what is to come. Obviously, we were slightly ahead of schedule. lol. We're talking w/ Chris about another shoot mid-July. The band is saying - "mmm... how about not out in the 105º heat this time?" Sherri seems to be good at water acrobatics in slimy East Texas lakes... perhaps we could so an under-water shoot. kidding. It's hot as the blazes of hell here in Tyler. Anyway, sadly, the image from a year ago is out-dated because of hair-do's. I might just slather it somewhere anyway. It can be a monument to the struggles we all went through to get to this point.
REPRISE > SIRE SHIFT
Speaking of - we have old news that's new to you. We were going to push this (label change hype) at some point but just decided it wasn't really that important. Tired of my own zealous blogs. It's all about the music and touring. But here are excerpts from pres release shiz I wrote last year but didn't blast:
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"After 2 ep’s, 2 full lengths, 3 digital ep’s, 6 years of touring, fan/brand building, Eisley opts to hop from Reprise to Warner’s SIRE after being courted by long time A&R Craig Aaronson, whose recent appointment to President of Sire Records might likely give them the opportunity to continue their career well into the middle of the next decade.
Sire Records, founded by Seymoure Stein in 1966 - purchased by Warner Bros in 1978 - might feel more like a giant indie a to an indie on a major but draws from their tenure/track record of breaking rock bands like - Depeche Mode, The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Smiths and Madonna. This move provides Eisley a new familial home with younger, indier label-mates such as Tegan and Sara, Regina Spektor, Jack’s Mannequin, and others."
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You'd have found out eventually but again, it's just not headline news; only care about getting the right attention/treatment/push/, etc. It didn't make sense to leave the Warner family but it did make sense to follow Craig into his new opportunity (kingdom). His tenacious, unending enthusiasm & powerful persistence persuaded us (bonus points for alteration bordering on studderation) on so many levels. Relationship is everything. Structurally, Warner is Warner - no matter what brand: Reprise, WBR, Sire; it's all the same.... exCept for the fact that Sire has a President and his daughter's name is Eisley. Any questions?
Not gonna to give you the "things are going to be different" speech; I could write a novel on our history and a short story about where we believe things are going but I don't see a purpose. Suffice to say - we're excited and have good reason to be here and even better reason to believe the opportunity will produce a different outcome... a positive one... one that nurtures a long career.
The history of Sire is better than Reprise, the logo even better... and talking to the president on a regular basis is better. And there are many more better's... I won't get into because I'm bored with this. We believe all of this will quickly translate into good things for everyone (kick A merch site, exclusive offers, better tours, more music more often... expansion on a new level)
be kind.
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