A long time ago in a lifetime far, far away….
or more precisely, in Oakland County, MI in 1994….
Mr. Black and Mr. Grey, along with a couple of other friends, formed a garage band. They had a great deal of fun, including playing the name the band this week game, but over a couple of years they went through quite a few new members and slowly petered out. Mr. Grey occasionally worked on a bit of music by himself, while Mr. Black played guitar in a handful of other short lived bands. Over the next nearly two decades the two got together several more times to write a handful of new songs, but eventually the inability to record and a lack of equipment would lead them to walking away in frustration.
In 2010 Mr. Grey and Mr. Black decided to give it another shot, but with a new approach. Instead of worrying about what they couldn’t do or what equipment they didn’t have they chose to concentrate on what they could do and what they did have. Rather than compromising with a band and creating music they were never quite satisfied with or concerning themselves with how an audience would react to it, they wanted to work on their own and devise music they both loved. Music that they found interesting and fulfilling, music that they enjoyed and that was uniquely their own. The project took over three years to complete, with several periods of little getting done (both having jobs and families), but in the end they were both fantastically happy with the finished project, Falling Down, and even had enough extra material for a second EP, Stillborn and Afterbirths.
They look forward to continuing to create music that inspires them in the years to come.
The following equipment was used in the recording of Falling Down and Stillborn and Afterbirths:
Digitech TSR24S
Yamaha PSR225 GM Keyboard
Digitech GNX4
Gibson SG Guitar
Peavey Max 100
Audio Technica MB1000L Dynamic Mic
ART DST 4 Pre-Amp
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD Internal Sound Card with THX SB1270
Audio-Technica AT2035 Large Diaphragm Studio Condenser Microphone
HGST Touro Mobile 1TB Black External Hard Drive HTOLMX3NA10001ABB
Nady SMPS-1X 1-Channel 48V Phantom Power Supply for SCM Series Microphones
Sennheiser HD555 Professional Headphones with Sound Channeling
Monster M ROCK-12 1/4-Inch Rock Instrument Cable as well as a handful of left over no name cables
Behringer MIC800 Microphone Modeling Preamp
Cakewalk Sonar X1 and quite a few VSTs
Several different PC’s
Sons of Soong record and reside in Oakland County, Michigan.