Saturday, November 20, 2010

New Album, "Dudes." Let's Do This.

A few weeks ago, my buddy (and sometimes drummer) Ethan Eubanks called from New York. He wanted to know when I was making another album. I told him that I had a concept and bunch of new songs that I was pretty excited about, but wasn't sure about how to get going. Within three days of our phone call, Ethan had enlisted our pal Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne (who also produced my album "Mine and Yours") and Andrew Sherman (one of my favorite keyboard players), booked a studio and found a place for me to stay in NYC. Suddenly, we were on our way.

Now, the only missing ingredient in the process is YOU. I am asking you to consider pre-purchasing the album in order to help raise the funds for its recording, manufacturing and promotion. If you want to help even more, there are eight more levels at which you can participate, all of which give you access to additional stuff like autographed copies of the album, video footage of the recording sessions, access to the demos of the songs and a say in which ones go on the album, a visit to the studio while we record, a personal song written and recorded by me for you... even a concert at your house.

I am very excited to be taking this project straight to you, the very people who have been so supportive through the years and enabled me to keep making music. Most of the funds that you help raise will be used to pay studio and musician costs. The rest will be used for manufacturing and a small amount of promotion. (I am hoping, of course, that you all will be the best promoters.) To find out more, please watch the attached video and visit my Kickstarter site here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613935496/david-meads-got-dudes

Sincerely,

David




1 comment:

Renaissance Girl said...

I fell off the planet for a few weeks and evidently missed my shot to support Dudes up front, but I'm looking so forward to hearing news about its release. Even though you're all good and kickstarted, and all sorts of well-loved, I'm happy to preorder if the project needs a few extra bucks. (Because $15 will go so freaking far toward covering, say, promotion and touring.)

Do hope you'll end up in my neck of the woods again.