Had
we not
been
playing every
single weekend
for those months
his assistant never
would have seen us, he
would have never heard
about this email. Probably
would have gone to his spam
folder. That goes to my next point,
if you're in a band and you're really
passionate about wanting to do it, then
your music is your only and biggest asset.
Your work and your social media work is
everything. It all goes hand in hand but, at the
end of the day, the music is the most important thing. So, have very high standards with your music and your songwriting and try to work with the best, absolutely the best producers that you can.
Research. If one costs more money then the
other find out why. Find out if it's worth it.
Because we can tell you from working
with different producers there is an
absolute difference in the products
you'll get working with different
caliber producers and
different people you
surround yourself with.
We have taken
great pride in our
music. We are
willing to
spend a
when you find those guys or girls that make sure everybody is on the same page and there is open and honest communication. That you guys are all understanding that it's an all or nothing kind of thing. Because you can have somebody sitting in a chair or standing up in front of an amp for months telling you all of the right things you want to hear and then come to find out they did one tour and it's too much for them. It's hard because you're with these guys
or girls like all of the time. So, they become
family and then you lose them and it not
only hurts the band it hurts personally
and you feel like your losing a member
of your family. So, it's important to
make sure that if you want it
you've got to stick with it.
There's going to be times
where you play a show,
there's two people but,
you've got to play
like there are
two hundred
people.
Give it
your all. You never
know who's watching.
You've got to stick through
it because it only gets thick
before it can get thin.
Andrew: Speaking of never missing an
opportunity, to give you a perfect
example, when we first started the band we
finally had a lineup and people had come and
gone and our work ethic, we were holding ourselves to very high standards with our work ethic. We would never say no to any opportunity. We were playing shows in Orlando alone like every single weekend for months and we didn't even release a song, we didn't have recorded music but, we had a small live set we practiced and we were like, we are going to play every show we possibly can from here on out. As Cory said, some of the nights we had two people, some of them had twenty people but, before you knew it, all of a sudden we started to see the same faces again. All of a sudden we were playing The House of Blues in Orlando. Then all of a sudden we were playing some festival and next thing we know we reached out to Andrew Wade who is a big-time producer and he is like, "Oh, I've heard about you because my assistant was at a show you guys had played and he said you guys had the best set and the best crowd of the night."