This week has mostly been about getting the business side of "The Cloers" in order. We took 5 hours on Thursday and made an extensive recording, personal, and business budget. Kind of depressing when you see it on paper, but at least we know where we stand now with all of our finances. On Tuesday, we made the trip down to our county Register of Deeds, and filed a Doing Business As/Assumed Named filing for The Cloers. Overall, that went pretty smoothly, and we were in and out in 45 minutes. Not bad! Then we headed over to our business bank account holder, and tried to get new checks printed. That's where we ran into a snag. They said that we can't have Velvet Rope Records and The Cloers on the same checks. We will try again next week to speak to another representative, and if they won't do it, then it will be a search for a new bank to host our business account or have 2 separate accounts.
This week we finished the 9th song re-write for the CD. This was a fairly new song, so it was more writing than re-writing. We are pretty pleased with ourselves, and have 1 more song to re-write next week. Also, we were excited to finish another song that will not be on the CD, but will be part of the live show. It is a song that we started a few years ago, and realized that it was probably going to end up being a funny song. We will need a little levity in our show because most of our writing is so serious. John wrote a funny song last week that we will do as a duet. I am looking forward to everybody hearing these two. After the CD is finished, we will probably post the 2 funny songs as video. For some reason, it's hard to get funny songs to translate to just audio sometimes. Oh well.
Our new hard drive for the studio computer finally arrive, so John spent 3 days installing it and all of the recording software. So, it looks like we will begin laying down tracks at the end of next week. It feels like it is taking FOREVER to just get started, but in the larger scheme of things, what's a couple of more weeks when we have been wanting to record for years.
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