David Dallas

I know I’ve been invisible over the last couple weeks, but hopefully you’ll appreciate the motivation behind the time away. I figure I can now safely announce that Something Awesome is done! Finished. Completed. Vanquished. Conquered…. Clocked.

Over the last 2 weeks I’ve been in the studio with Evan and Pete tweaking and arranging these songs to try and make them as good as they can be. We were still adding tiny things on Tuesday so to finally put it to bed and have it mastered a couple days ago is a huge weight off my shoulders. I’m really happy with it, and I’m excited about letting you guys hear it. I’m also looking forward to being out of the studio and not hearing myself on repeat for a little while… at least till the next project. Ha

Anyways, lots of other stuff has been going on in my absence. We lost the greatest entertainer of all time in Michael Jackson. I actually started writing a blog about it the day I found out, but I couldn’t really find the words to get my point across. What I will say is I have NO memory of music prior to M.J. My first recollections of music are songs off Thriller and Sesame St, and being that this guy was in the “Thriller” and “Beat It” videos, our family took an even greater interest than most in his works.

I got a text from both my older brother and sister on the day he passed saying how saddened/shocked they were. Might not sound out of the ordinary, but my siblings NEVER text me. Especially not my older brother .. that ain’t his style. I remember them asking a young me if I wanted to go to the Michael Jackson concert.  This was around the time of him releasing singles like “You Are Not Alone” and “Earth Song”,  being that I had reached adolescence and was starting to think I was cool around then I can’t front – I initially was like “oh.. I dunno if I care ay, he’s rude now”. Whilst I was listening to Montell Jordan or some shit(yup kids are fickle). I recall them rolling their eyes at me and pushing the issue though, like “are you sure ? you used to love Michael Jackson, you might never get another chance to see him”.

As fate would have it they bought me a ticket and ended up taking their annoying little brother to his first concert. To this day it is the BEST concert/show I’ve been to… by a mile, and I’ve seen a few now. I remember me and my boy Daniel talking about it at school for the next 2 weeks solid. Just to put it in perspective, one of my brothers is deaf – and even HE loved it. Now that’s a motherfucken entertainer. Anyways, I text both my siblings back and thanked them again for taking me to the show all those years ago. They were right about not getting another chance, thank goodness for smart family.

R.I.P M.J

Anyways, if you’re wondering about the photo – yup we shot the “Big Time” video. Some of you will no doubt be disappointed at the lack of Elephants, alas video budgets can only stretch so far, ha. We’ve finished the album artwork too, so it is officially on. Exciting times ahead, can’t wait.

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