december - the 3 point plan

Wow, December already? Well, it just means that there's snow in the local mountains to ride... And some new, major, exciting, progress for Morrownow.

Here's guitarist Jason laying down Morrownow's 3-Point Plan:

December 2009 Update from Morrownow on Vimeo.

The 3-Point Plan:
1. Record a Demo
2. Band Photos
3. Book a Show

This week in fact, is our scheduled band photo shoot. Things are moving quickly and we catch ourselves getting caught up in it a bit, but we constantly remind ourselves to take a step back and assess what we're doing. When we do, we realize we have tons of time for everything. The most important thing is to do things right and not too quickly. For example, we found a perfect location to have the photo shoot, but it fell through for this week. The whole past week, the location has been set in our minds like, "That's the one. It's perfect" mentally, it pretty much left no other options for us to fall back on. Everything else seemed terrible to us. The location won't be available until next week sometime, but there's underlying pressure from a photographer we have lined up. We'll see how it plays out, and that's when we realized we needed to take a step back -- take a look from outside of the box, and see that it's simply OKAY. No worries. No biggie. It's just a location, and there's BA-JILLIONS of those out there. Needless to say, we've found a couple already, and I myself(Brent) am going to take a look at them in the next hour actually. I'm really thankful for Craigslist by the way.

Here's a picture of the place we really wanted, but couldn't(at least for this week):


The idea for the photo was to have a few guitar amps in the room, a couple mic stands, and a few guitars on stands. The guys would stand and pose amongst them. The lighting equipment would light up the room, and we'd avoid the sun. Like vampires. Did I forget to mention that Morrownow was a vampire-band? Pfttt. Just kidding.

So anyway, the demo is planned to be recorded this month also. Most likely mid-December if everyone can get their schedules down. Then, I will start looking for their first premiere gig. We all want to gig so badly to perform, but again -- we stepped back and thought, "Gig just to gig? OR make it special, with demos/fliers/material, all of our friends, and a big, PREMIERE show?" We chose the latter. I predict we'll make that happen by mid-January, or possibly even early-January. This blog will definitely keep you posted though.

In the wise words of the rapper T.I., "Big things Poppin'" this month.