RPM Challenge - Report Card

New songs written in February	3
Unreleased songs recorded in February	13
Beers consumed in February	50+
10-song album finished	Yes
Days to spare	1
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Final Grade	B-

We would've liked to finish writing more new songs, but we adhered to the minimum rules and successfully met the challenge. After a long month of writing, practicing, gigging, and recording, we ended up only using tracks from our final recording session. We are happy enough with the results to start plans on incorporating the tracks into a new limited-release CD, so keep your eyes peeled for that. We would like to thank New Belgium Brewing, Deschutes Brewery, and Grupo Modelo for helping us persevere through the hard work.

We've learned some good lessons, and we're going to do our best to keep writing and working hard during the other 11 months of the year. But first, back to the important stuff--new beer reviews starting next week!

-Jon

RPM Challenge

Today I stumbled across The RPM Challenge, a challenge to musicians around the world to write and record a 10 song album of original material entirely in the month of February. As we are not the types to back away from a challenge, I signed us up, and we fully intend to complete said challenge using our state-of-the-art iPod home recording gear. Why would we subject ourselves to a month of deadline-induced pressure and agony, you ask? Well:

• We're into that sort of thing.
• Having only one job with pressures and deadlines is for sissies.
• To knock us off our asses and write some damn music.

Be warned that the end product could end up... well, bad. Hopefully we will use this opportunity to try some wild and crazy things--some of which might work, some of which definitely won't--and we all know that's a dicey proposition when it comes to music. Even so, we're stoked to give it a try, and the tracks will be available, for good or for awful, in a few months. Wish us luck!

-Jon