July 1, 2008

Today was the first day of a very beautiful thing – recording!  Yes, it’s true.  Joe and I started recording Lolita’s Way’s first CD of our original songs.  Robert Henry of Oracle Sound is our recording engineer.  We met at his place Tuesday evening to set up our instruments and begin our journey. Robert’s mastermind had us sounding great in no time.  He has a lot of very helpful suggestions and is very efficient.  Above all, the man is patient.  Very patient.  We recorded three songs today, and after five hours and a lot of sugar, ended up with some pretty good “rough drafts.”  All three of us are pretty excited to record the rest of our songs.

July 2, 2008

It’s the second day of recording, and although we’re already tired, we’re ready to keep rolling.  I added the vocals to the songs we recorded yesterday, and Joe added his wicked guitar to a couple of the songs.  We also recorded one more song before we wrapped it up for the day.  So far, this has been a great learning experience.  I’ve learned that precision is key, and that I have none.  It’s fun nonetheless, and exciting to get our songs on some sort of recorded media.  During our live performances, it’s difficult for me to really hear what Joe is playing (because I have to concentrate so hard on what I’m doing or I’ll screw up), so it’s nice to actually be able to hear what the heck my partner is doing over there.  I’m impressed so far.

Joe and I will both be out of town for a couple of weeks, and will resume our recording sessions at the end of July.  We hope to have a complete CD within the next few months.  Please keep checking back here for the progress.  Once the CD is done and many golden copies are made, they will be available for anyone to purchase at our shows, and through an online distributor.  Have a great 4^th of July!

July 23, 2008

After being out of town for two weeks, Joe and I were both ready to get back to playing and recording. We had high hopes of being especially efficient today and getting at least three entire songs recorded, but we had some technical difficulties and didn’t end up getting as much done as we would’ve liked. We did, however, still record the instrumentation for two and a half songs (The Glow, Let it Go, and part of Today). Look for them soon on our Myspace page. We also managed to eat a lot of candy – again. We’ll have one more recording session before the month of July is over, and then we’ll be getting ready for our August 9th show at The Wellington pub in Troy, MI. Hope you can make it!

August 13, 2008
First of all, a BIG thank you to all those that made it out to The Wellington Pub on Saturday, August 9th. Because of you, we’ve been asked to play there again pretty much as often as we’d like. Thank you for your constant support!

Mr. Pytel, Jr. and I recorded on July 30th, but there wasn’t much to report, which is why you haven’t heard about it. Today, we were back at it again, mostly cleaning up the songs that we already recorded. We were very efficient this time around and happy with the outcome. I also gave Joe and Robert, our recording engineer, a lesson in diction. (no comments, Damian, Brad, or the entire Pytel/Benvenuti clan, for that matter!) “Diction,” just so there’s no confusion here, is defined as:

If anyone finds that they can’t understand what I’m singing in our songs (other than because of its fast tempo; i.e., Cell Phone), please let me know so that I can improve my diction.

Some of the songs currently on our Myspace page will be updated, and you should also be seeing The Glow added to the list of songs soon for your listening pleasure. After that, you’ll have to buy the CD in order to hear the rest of the LW tunes. Actually, not all of our originals are going to be on this first CD because there’s just too many. Luckily, you can hear all of our originals live this Friday, August 15th at the Wellington Pub in Troy.

For the next couple of weeks, instead of recording, Joe and I will be writing new originals and working on adding new songs to our rep. Next time you see us live, we should have a few more new songs for you. In the meantime, we’ll keep you updated of our upcoming shows.