VIP-concert

Well it's been a long time since we've posted something. =) There are a lot of things happened in our life. We took the second place in the "Subways competition". That gave us 6 tickets in the VIP-lodge. We brought our friends Ann and Boris with us. The way to Ekaterinburg took about 2 hours of fun and listening a lot of different music. The concert place looked like a warehouse from the outside. Inside was better but there's no space for the large groups of people. There were like 100-150 people.
The concert was great. Fun, punk and rock'n'roll. We've got a lot of experience. Somewhere in our souls we finally realised that we want to be on stage, not on the floor. We want to rock all the places.


Here some photos from the event)))

 

Rock'n'Roll Queen

The big news for today is our rehearsal. There were cables everywhere. A LOT of cables. =))) And we are finally recorded the audio for the Rock'n'Roll Queen. It is almost done. Last thing to do is to record a guitar solo. So we are able to make a video. Hope we will make it on thursday.






And... we are going to play in James Butler Pub on wednesday at 3 p.m. We'll appreciate everybody to come and support us.

How I "bought" a laptop

Well. Mickey asked me to make our posts more informative. I have no idea how to  do this. Actually Mickey thinks that some abstract music information in our blog will make it more specific. Like: "Metallica's songs are using for tortures in Guantanamo" or "In 1982 when Ozzy Osbourne bit off bat's head he didn't know that it was a real bat. He thought that it was a toy". I don't know if it is appropriate to use such information in the blog which has to tell about The Muzzle of Bees. Probably we can make some kind of quiz: Do you want to read any facts about music life in a blog? Impartial witness can help us deside.

Anyway today we were cleaning up after the party. Then I went to Mike's job and had a photo with him because making a photo with customer is a part of his job. But all his customers disbanded before he asked them. So I pretended to be an owner of a new laptop. =)

And we had every week meeting. We were talking a lot. About everything. We invented video-clip for the Rock'n'Roll Queen. Tomorrow we will record the audio. For the rest of the week we will have a complete video-clip.

Stream Video

Opening of the blog takes a big responsibility. It is well-known fact that almost 90% of online blogs are not active. So to make a popular blog you have to write more often. Mike as he is a drummer chose a fast speed of writing - one post per day. So now we should post something every single day (Zoe has to do this because she knows English better then others). But at the same time quality shouldn't suffer from the quantity, otherwise our blog will turn into the everyday bunch of garbage.

So, interesting fact: In 1984 the drummer of hard rock band Def Leppard Rick Allen was in a car accident and lost his left arm. But this disaster didn't crash his music career. He started to train on the drum kit specially designed for him. There were recorded samples of hits that he had done with his left hand and he played it moved with his left foot. Since then, Rick Allen was involved in the record of many successful albums of Def Leppard, as well as several of his own projects.

Well, let's go back to us. After Mike's morning jog to the shop he helped Mickey to fix the problem with the computer. Because when you are trying to turn it off,  it just turns back on again. The first thought was that some kind of an artificial intelligence possesses our computer (and, hopefully, it will help us to make platinum albums). But unfortunately we found out that the problem was with the sound card. The power supply is not enough powerful as needed. So now in order to solve it, we will have to turn off the surge protector every time we want to turn off the computer. Yippee!

Mike and Alex visited a music store and bought cables in order to record sound without background noise. Also they bought picks for a thumb for Mickey to play fingerstyle in acoustics. Mickey is so glad and almost said “thank you” to them.

Also Mike set up a Stream Video when the sound comes from the sound card and a video comes from the web-cam. Now he won't spend so many time to edit video and sound. Those 6 hours he spent on the mounting and converting had no purpose. He created hour and a half of the dark screen and almost no sound.


And we are proud to present our new online channel http://www.livestream.com/muzzleofbeestv

Be always faithful to your idols! We wish you chicks and money!

Tech Support

On Saturday’s band meeting we decided to think over some ideas for video of “Rock'n'Roll Queen” on Monday. Well... Monday is over and I can announce that nothing has happened at all. Nobody even remembered about this. So probably now we have to choose some kind of a meeting secretary. That's how we will remember about our decisions and tasks and keep them organized.

In general Monday was quite successful for us:
 1) We had a rehearsal, played all the set-list and even tried to play Johnny Cash - Cry, Cry, Cry. This song was new for us so we didn't play it right. The silver line is that our set-list is growing day by day!
 2) We plugged in the sound card which Mickey brought from home. Right now drums and vocals are recorded through the mixing console in the line input, guitar and bass are recorded through the microphone-console-line input. The sound is so much better than from the HD-camera;
 3) The whole day Mickey, Mike and Alex were playing and exercising with their instruments. In the evening Mike started to edit sound and video recorded from the web-cam. That took a lot of time. At first he downloaded and installed trial versions of Adobe Audition and Premiere. He was trying to cut all background noises appeared. Then he combined video and audio. According to my calculations, it took about 6 hours, and the video is still converting;
 4) In the evening we went for a walk and then watched the film “Source Code”.

As a result, Monday was very productive for the band, and all of us went to bed happy. Well I'm going to sleep now because computer is making a very loud noise in the quite dark room.

P.S. Turned off computer but it turned on again... That's weird. I think I should pull out the power cord.

Bye-bye, The Job!

 

Saturday's night. We had an every week conversation about everything. A lot of new things happened this week. Mike put the poster frame on the wall, but without the poster for right now. He is working on it. It will be a big poster with the Muzzle Of Bees on it. One thing to do is to prepare it. =)

Today Mike was working for 5 hours in the cloth shop named O'Stinе. After 5 hours he told the manager: "I really don't want to work here. Bye-bye!" Isn't that great?)))

On the agenda there is a video for The Subways. Tomorrow we'll have a brainstorming. Everybody will suggest the ideas for the video. Hope we'll find one common conception.

By the way, Mickey told us about an autobiography of Keith Richards which is called "Life". Inspiriting book. Unfortunately there is no translation in russian so we'll try to find an English version. Hope that some web-stores have it on sale.

Also Mike and Alex did a great job cleaning the kitchen and bathroom. There was pretty dirty. Tomorrow will be Zoe and Mickey’s turn to clean up the living-room. That is really dull but necessary.

I think that's all. Nothing else happened this week. I guess that new week will be more successful for us in a music way. Everything is changing. I see that everybody in a band is trying to bring something new in our life. That makes me feel damn good. =))) We are a team already and the only one thing is important right now - to live with music. For all of us...