Originally we were planning to up and go to LA without ever having even met this new guy.  Now looking back that seems crazy.  But with all that has happened we thought it was just part of the roller coaster ride we have been riding since February!  It didn’t feel right.  It felt rushed, but it was rushed, so we were going with it.  The original plan would have caused us to have to cancel four shows and miss Steven and I’s birthdays!  We were supposed to fly to LA tomorrow, March 19 and spend just under two weeks in the studio, then fly home on April 1.

Then at the last minute it turns out that everyone was having scheduling difficulties.  And when Jamie called me saying “keep your show at Stella Blue” and “we’ve made a new plan” I was instantly relieved.  This means somehow we got the best of both worlds.  We still get to do pre-production on our new music, we can still do our shows, and not even leave our families.  Plus Mike will be able to see The Enemy Lovers live in our hometown glory.  I couldn’t have asked or demised a plan better than the one in effect right now.

Funny thing is with our previous recording plan of ‘5 Days. 5 Songs.’ we had everybody involved with every phone call and every little detail.  Now with all the new happenings no one has a clue.  We’re a little gun shy to say the least.  Now if you are coming to the show in at Stella Blue you will be involved like never before, there with us and our new producer.  That will be the first time we meet him in person, with you.  We are really excited about our new path and have high hopes!  Thanks for reading this whole blog entry and thanks for being a fan.

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Now that we made it through (our last breakup) together and alive we’re looking for that special someone again!

Our update is that we’ve narrowed it down to two.  We’ve talked to the first and I have to be honest, he said all the right things according to me.  I’ve learned over the past few years that you have to hold your cards close to your chest when talking to a new prospect for producer.  I feel like when I’ve said too much it has only supplied them with the right things to say and names to drop when I’m wary of the way things are being produced.  My own words are then used at me to regain my confidence.  It compromises really knowing what they’re envisioning.  And I want to know how they honestly hear it sounding.

So in our talk we let Mike Daly from LA speak.  Mike is currently writing and producing many artists, some with whom he has worked include Whiskeytown (Ryan Adams), Stephen Kellogg, the Pernice Brothers, Ambulance LTD, Patrick Park, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Marie Digby, Georgia, The Plain White T’s, Jessie Baylin and Donavon Frankenreiter.  We asked epic questions of grand proportions and his responses genuinely intrigued me.  There were some amazing things said on the call and it show signs of being an incredible match up.  He could most definitely be the one.  It’s happening so quick though and on one hand it feels like fate but on the other it almost seems to easy.  It feels so fast.  We had hopes for a fast recovery but this is happening very fast.  We have the songs and we’re ready but LA, in two weeks with someone we’ve never met in person!  If all goes well we will be in LA recording by the middle of March!  Can you believe that?

We’ll keep you posted on further updates…

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Well here’s how I think it happened, although I still have no idea when it happened or how I didn’t feel it! If you reference the picture below you will see an arrow pointing at what I think caused the bleeding.  It’s a flat head bolt that keeps the guitar bridge in place.  And it is sharp!  Add that to the fact that I strum my guitar pretty vigorously, especially when I’m dealing with a lot of good energy and you have guitar player with a bleeding hand.  And I don’t really care what they say about how a professional should attack a guitar.  I play like I play, with no reservations!  I’m all in baby!  Now I just have to figure out how to customize the top of that bolt before I lose too much blood.  Any ideas?

If you’re just now coming in on this blog role read the first part of this story here >> While my guitar gently bleeds.

So now you know.

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Now I must have lost myself in the energy of the night because half way through our set I looked down and most of my hand was covered in blood!  I noticed it because I saw splatters on the Workplay stage and I freaked out for a second in my head when I looked at my bloody hand and blood splattered on my guitar.  We started our set with ‘Feel It’.  It was feeling good, no pun intended.  Then we went into ‘Circles’ one of my personal favorite songs to play live.  People were singing the oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohs with us and I may have already started bleeding by this point but I hadn’t noticed yet.  Then after Circles we went into a Johnny Cash cover of ‘God’s Gonna Cut You Down’.  That just pushed everything over the top.  The band was tearing this song up!!!  After we finished I notice the blood spots on the stage, then my guitar then I look at my hand and I’m like holy S@%$!  I’m bleeding!  A pretty good bit too.  I had done this once before while we were filming the music video last month so I didn’t completely lose it but I was (as un-rock and roll as it is) a little concerned!  The show must go on and I didn’t feel light headed so I took the band into ‘Enemies’.  A very appropriate song to bleed to, I think.  The whole song I’m thinking about my finger though so I end up not getting into it at all.  But between ‘Enemies’ and our new song ‘Light Up Pt. 1′ I bring up to the crowd the fact that I cut my finger on my guitar somehow and then I suddenly I felt better.  Now I’m feeling like some cool punk historical moment type thing with blood everywhere.  It’s like Sid Vicious stuff!  Then we started into our new song ‘Light Up Pt. 1′ on a completely different plane then we ever had before, bleeding and singing!  We ended our set with ‘Coming Down’ which I reminded the crowd they used to play on 100.5 last year but then stopped for some reason not by any fault of them!  They all laughed with us and then sang the song that they used to sing with the radio right there with us live at Workplay Theatre.  Love You Live and bleeding.  To everyone that was there thank you for supporting the music!

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I would tell you more in depth details about the video (because I’ve probably watched it 10 times today!) but I don’t want to ruin the surprise for everyone that was not at the video shoot.  And for those of you crazy fans that came to the video shoot and jumped around with us in the live performance scenes, we want to Thank you.  As you will soon see you brought the energy to the camera and to The Enemy Lovers!

**UPCOMING EVENT>> We are planning a ticketed Music Video Premier where you can join us to preview the video before we release it.  We’re throwing a party in honor of everyone that was involved on the project.  We’ll have drinks, behind the scenes footage, stories of the day etc.  And you can be a part of this…MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!

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