OK people here it is, the new record: “Posthumously, The Formula Kid”.

We are making this available in three formats to appeal to the varying demand for audio quality: Good (128kbps mp3), Better (256kbps mp3), and Best (wav – CD audio). Of course we recommend the wav files because they are what you would get on the CD but the file sizes on these suckers are huge (between 22MB and 42MB) so you’ll need a bit of patience with the download times.

Here is the recommended song order but mix and match as you see fit. Email your cover artwork to info at the formula kid dot com and I’ll post it.

Right click on the link and “Save Target As” if your browser chooses to stream the audio instead of download it.

Track 1: Dog and Pony Show —- Good Better Best

Track 2: Outta Sight Shake —- Good Better Best

Track 3: Home —- Good Better Best

Track 4: To Mother from Her Son —- Good Better Best

Track 5: You Devil You —- Good Better Best

Track 6: Cutout Bin —- Good Better Best

Track 7: On Martyrdom —- Good Better Best

Credits:

All songs produced by J. Christopher Hughes and The Formula Kid except On Martyrdom: produced by Drew Johnson.

You Devil You recorded by J. Christopher Hughes at The Sonic Temple.
On Martyrdom recorded by Drew Johnson at Angstrom Sound.
All other songs recorded by J. Christopher Hughes (all the hard stuff), Drew Johnson, and Dino Nicastro at our rehearsal space, Angstrom Sound, and Dino’s house.

You Devil You mixed by J. Christopher Hughes at The Sonic Temple.
All other songs mixed by Drew Johnson at Angstrom Sound.

Dino Nicastro: Drums and Percussion
Nate Williamson: Keyboards and Backing Vocals
Mike Gregory: Bass and Backing Vocals
Drew Johnson: Lead and Backing Vocals, Guitar

Steve Nowels played Bass, Mandolin, and Cello on You Devil You
Tracy sang the Background Vocals on Home

The Formula Kid would like to say a huge thanks to J. Christopher Hughes for all the time he dedicated to this project and for his inspiration. Without his encouragement and belief in this band this project may very well never have happened.

As soon as I get some time I will add all of these tunes to our “Audio” page but it’s just going to have to live here for the time being.

OK I’ve got all of the tunes in my possession and I said I hoped to have them posted before Thanksgiving but there’s no way I’m going to be able to get that done. There’s just not enough time to upload everything and get all the HTML together and all that mess. I’m not going to be around here much through this weekend so I’ll do it all on Sunday or Monday I promise.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

I hope to have the new record posted before Thanksgiving. We’ve run into a couple of hiccups in the last week or so but we hope to have them resolved shortly. J. Christopher Hughes has the last song to go on the record in his possession and he’s been in Nashville recording an album from dusk ’til dawn for the last couple of weeks. He was kind enough to do a fancy little file transfer of the tune but there was a little mix-up in transit but it’s on its way I promise.

Dino and I have been furiously trying to come up with a title for the new record. Naming a record is only slightly less cumbersome than naming a band. It’s probably going to be something along the lines of “Posthumously, The Formula Kid”. I remember how convinced I was that “Invention of the Wheel” should have been called “Grandma and the Glue Factory”. I still haven’t gotten over that one.

Have you ever taken one of those email-this-goofy-questionnaire-to-all-your-friends surveys? The ones that ask stuff like: Britney or Christina? Fold or bunch? What is your most embarrassing habit besides booger eating? Yeah me either but I was thinking about those things the other night as I was watching The Lawrence Welk Show. If those surveys ever asked “What are some T.V. shows that you watch but are embarrassed to admit to?” I would have two answers: The Lawrence Welk Show and Mind Freak. Needless to say I’m infinitely more humiliated by the fact that I’m fascinated with Mind Freak. Get off me, I dig magic…and narcissistic pretty-boys with high cheekbones and Jovi-hair.

My project for this weekend was to get my basement cleaned out and to get all my equipment set up so I can start doing some real recording. My studio has recently resembled a pawn shop crammed into an 8′ x 8′ section of my basement. Lately my recording time has been divided between trying to locate a working SM57, tap dancing around guitars lying on the floor, wondering what ever happened that cool fuzz pedal I used to have, and…uhhh…oh yeah, recording music.

It’s time to start doing some real recording and that was simply not going to happen if I didn’t do something about my recording environment. I made some headway over the last couple of days. It’s still a work in progress but it’s way better than before.

So here are a few pictures of where I’m at now. Keep in mind that this is just a basement-basement. There’s no fire place, no den, no bar, just concrete floors covered in old carpet and cinder block walls. Rest assured that the rest of my house is a total palace. This home studio is pretty modest even by modest home studio standards but whatever, it’s mine.

Believe it or not I’ve actually been getting requests lately to keep the blog going. So here it is…going.

The tunes are mixed and ready to ship out as far as I’m concerned. I sent Dino and Nate CDs a couple of weeks ago so they’re living with those for a while to make sure that it all works for them. I haven’t sent Mike a disc because I can’t find him. If anyone knows the whereabouts of Mike Gregory please let me know. As soon as the mixes are all given the OK they will be available for download from here somewhere. There will probably be seven songs.

Dog and Pony Show
Outta Sight Shake
Cutout Bin
Home
To Mother from Her Son
On Martyrdom
You Devil You

Twenty Miles from Waterloo was never finished *sigh of relief*. And neither was Admiration Day Parade or Songbirds. May they rest in peace.

I’m not sure if anyone knew this or not but J. Christopher Hughes has his mix of You Devil You on his My Space page if you want to hear it.

I mentioned in a previous post that I was doing some work with Maxtone Four on their album. They now have one of the songs that I sang on at their My Space page. The song is called “Just Say I Know”. We were all extremely pleased with how the big vocal stuff turned out.

A band I’ve been digging very heavily lately that you should all check out is The Ditty Bops. Enough said.

I’ve been doing a lot of demo recording lately for my solo record. Don’t hold your breath. I’m sure it will never be finished but a boy can dream. I’m also learning to play harmonica. I was cleaning out my basement recently and found some musical instruments that I had forgotten I had. I found two harmonicas, a flute, and a clarinet. There are two instruments that I’ve always said I would learn to play before I die. The harmonica is one and the other is the pedal steel guitar. I consider the pedal steel to be one of the most expressive and versatile instruments ever created but unfortunately they ain’t cheap…and I am. It will have to stay on my to do list for now.