A big thank you to everyone who helped us, came to, and enjoyed Swamp Train’s CD Launching Party last Friday! We really had a fantastic time!
Amazing really when you consider the discussions we (the band) had pretty much a year ago: should we make one? Too soon? To expensive? All the doubts you can harbor… and then the decision, choosing songs, looking at different studios, prices on the web…
And then the actual recording sessions last summer that fell right in heat wave weather – 36°c/ 96.8°F – in the studio… Dealing with often divergent opinions, discussions, time going by, where to mix it? All hopes of getting it ready by last October brushed away…
And also for me: looking for ideas for the cover art, running them past my friends, hearing their says and inputs… Deciding on the track order, mixing the CD, learning about EAN and ISRC codes after the CD was mixed, figuring out how to get them on the CD, deciding where to get it all printed, completely redoing the cover art to the printers specification with 14°C / 57°F in my “office” (weeks of a down to -21° / -5.8°F winter outside will do that)
Uploading it all to the printers website…
Meanwhile, brewing & bottling beer
Deciding the launch date, food? Peanuts & chips… Food!
Launch minus 2 weeks:
Receiving CD’s!! :-)
Discovering glitch… :-(
Cancel? :P
NO! Trust!
Launch minus 3 days:
Received replacement CD’s! :-)
Launch minus 2 days:
Replacing CD’s in cases.
Launch minus 1 days:
Rewrapping cases in cellophane…
And The Launch Party!
About 130 people came, the place was packed, it was simply incredible!
I took my camcorder and managed a minute or two of footage early in the evening but was then too overwhelmed by the crowd to have time to even think about filming… Fortunately we should be receiving some pictures soon.
In the meantime, here it is:
