Open Mic Recording Parties!!

Gosh, we had the best time at Strange Night III last weekend, there was a full roster of talent in the house and Adam came totally prepared with something like a dozen microphones and a small P.A. as well as a couple dozen tracks of DAT recording equipment and plenty of tape - Mark B. was super gracious and accommodated the request for munchies and so we had small sandwiches and chips and dips for the artists and, well, it was just great!

Of the three Strange Nights we have hosted at U.C.A. this one was probably the most happening and we have easily ended up with about 48 rough tracks of original 'bleeding edge' Cleveland acoustic music to work with - almost makes my mouth water thinking about all those raw recordings!!

The performances were graceful, the artist were totally cool, and if we decide to do another CD we have plenty of material to work with...The only downer being that Stu from YSTOP records did not show up, however, we had several YSTOP recording artists in attendance.

So, what's the best way to follow up the excitement of an Open Mic Recording Party? How about ANOTHER Open Mic Recording Party!! And that's exactly what happened on Tuesday night at Riders Inn, at the Song Writers Circle with Jim Snively, yep, Ben and Sean brought a laptop and a couple of microphones and did two track stereo recordings straight to hard drive - and again, the performers rose to the occasion, there was plenty of energy in the room to work with, and I hope we can hear some of those tracks in the near future. I have asked Sean for MP3 previews, so far I don't have any. Stay tuned.