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BEHIND THE SUN - THE BURNING

(demo)

around the world

TLV -> EWR -> IAD -> ICN -> TLV

I recently returned from a trip which started with a family vacation and continued to business-related travel in the far east. During the course of the trip I circled the globe from West to East which sounded easy enough, after all I just had to sit in my seat and let the pilots do the work. As it turned out my stay in Korea ran a little longer than planned but in the end I did make it back to base.

Now its time to dig in and finish arranging the 2nd BTS album. We've got 2 full demos recorded ("the Burning" and "Fire" two songs which we've played live already), another one in the process of being recorded ("Things fall apart"... ditto...), another 2 songs ready to record demos for, and a seemingly endless collection of riffs, lyrics, scraps, jams, songs in progress, and witty titles which we will now have to carve into another 5-10 solid tunes to put on this album.

Given that the cd is apparently dead [yet oddly enough, the LP is alive --- even Best Buy is selling vinyl these days] we've been throwing around a bunch of ideas as to what kind of weird formats we could or should release the 2nd album on: Vinyl? Disk on Key? mp3 only? cd? 8-track cassette? I'm personally torn between the reality that the only format where we are really selling our album is mp3s on iTunes and mp3 and flac on Bandcamp and the desire to have a tangible, physical piece of something with the cover art and credits slapped on it.

We're also at this time auditioning a few brilliant local guitarists for the role of lead guitar in the band. I'm very happy with a number of players whom we've seen so far and I hope that we can make a final decision in the next few weeks and then get into the rehearsal room as a 5 piece band and start perfecting all these songs we are sitting on. And of course, I've got a lot of cutting and pasting and riffing and tracking to do at home also to finish my portion of the whole thing and try and stitch it all together. Its time for the classic "scraping around on the floor" [as Robt. Fripp refers to it] phase of album writing ... something which I expect to take the rest of 2011, and we'll start tracking in 2012. That's the plan.

Behind the Sun to play Ozzfest Tel Aviv on September 28, 2010

I'm extremely proud and humbled by the news that my band, "Behind the Sun" will be playing at the OZZFEST in Tel Aviv on September 28th, 2010.


This is definitely the highlight of my musical existence on this planet and by far the biggest show I've ever played.


Along with Ozzy Osbourne, Soulfly and Korn will also be playing that night. I'm a huge Max Cavalera fan and I've been listening to Sepultura (and then Soulfly) since the 10th grade (about a million years ago).

Needless to say we are ridiculously excited by this amazing opportunity to open for these great bands.

OZZY


SOULFLY


KORN



also appearing: Betzefer, Black Widow, Tal Friedman ...



Its gonna be something...

updated, listening recommendations

There's about a zillion things going on with Behind the Sun these days:
1. we are gonna be playing at the 3rd ear record store in Ra'anana on August 15th.
2. we are gonna be playing a joint show with the band Edgend (they just signed a recording contract with Nightmare records) on August 18th.
3. on August 17th we are gonna be on live TV on channel 24. granted at 11AM\
4. On September 10th we are playing a joint show with Solstice Coil. I hope to get up on stage with them and play at least one song, and I think their keyboard player (and our producer) Shai will play some songs with us.
5. On September 17th we are playing are first ever show in the distant snowy North at a place called the Karpion somewhere in the area of Metulla (Kibbutz Dan maybe?) yes I am a bit hazy on the details...




anyway this week is JERRY WEEK
Jerry Garcia
b: Aug 1, 1942
d: Aug 9, 1995

celebrate by listening to some GRATEFUL DEAD. I'll just say there were months and months when I only listened to the Dead exclusive to all other forms of life or music. My first tape was 2-11-1970 fillmore east with guests Duane Allman, Greg Allman and Peter Green (i think thats right) and the first album I ever got was of course Skeleton's in the Closet (oh the shame) and then Aoxomoxoa. I wish there was more GD in BTS but at least there's something which has rubbed off on us --- most noticably in Strong Wind

I've got both GD box sets and i'm listening to them this week as I zip up and down the coastal highway to work and back and in general doing by wife's bidding.


HAPPY LISTENING