Today's our last day in the studio, and we only have one song to do, so we're gonna have lots of time after to chill and watch the crew edit. "To me now, you are nothing more then a stranger" I sing at the end of the song, then smile. Then after me Aaron goes there to go at it with the drums. Me and Grim already recorded with the guitars, but Zuko still needs to go.
"The album is coming along fucking great" I smile
"Yeah" he nods "It's a pretty long one too"
"Yeah" I laugh "Thirteen songs!"
"You should call Johnny soon, so we can start designing merch and Vinyls" Grim suggests
Oh yeah, so Johnny signed our band, and in one more month will drop indulgence over absence! Besides for them only having a two album contract, they get dropped if they don't sell a certain amount of Albums, which they haven't done.
"For sure" I nod "Wanna sketch out some ideas now?"
We get a whole ass note book and the dudes design simple black, hoodless, sweat shirts. They have our name on the front and the album cover on my back. I sketch out a side sleeve shirt, that has our name on the sides, and is green with purple writing. Then a picture of all of us, but in purple fade writing on the back. I even draw some socks, and different colors; while the guys just create black shit. They all look cool though.
Then when Aaron gets out, he puts down some ideas too. Zuko goes and records, then when he gets out, I send Johnny a bunch of pictures of the papers and drawings.
Me:
Hey! Here's some ideas we had for merch
I smile, then we head into the room to hear little segments and backgrounds, instrumentals being put into place. They've been editing as we go along, so besides this song, they have one more to do. After two hours we get to hear the whole album, fifty six minutes, and absolutely perfect. The one slower song with piano is such an odd mix into the heavy song, and the one more pop punk, happy song to mask the deep dark meanings really brings out a different element.
They inform us that in three days they'll publish the album on YouTube, and we are beyond excited and accomplished! So we head to my house; which they haven't seen yet. I decided I have to trust them with knowing my location if I'm gonna spend months together on tour with them...
"So this is my house" I laugh
"Wow this shits gorgeous"
"Well hopefully we make it fucking big and all you fuckers can buy a house like this" I smile
"Fuck yeah!" He cheers
"Amanda?" Jade furrows her eyebrows, coming in through the kitchen
"Hey" I smile "oh! These are my band members"
"Hi" she smiles "I'm Jade"
"Aaron" Aaron walks over and shakes her hand, followed by the rest of us
"Zuko"
"Grim"
"Nice to meet you" she sighs "oh uh- Skyler will be home in two hours if you guys are still around to meet her"
"Prolly"
"Uh, the basement is pretty much the chill room if y'all wanna hangout down there"
"For sure"
"Jade wanna come?" I smile
"Oh uh- I think I'm gonna do the dishes, and just hangout" she nods "Maybe when Sky gets here"
"Alright" I smile "For dinner, I was just gonna order some pizzas, is that cool?"
"Get a vegetable" she smiles "You know that's my favorite"
