1 WHAT This Week?: August 2009

Friday, August 28, 2009

Bzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hi All,

If you have internetting skillz and are ever bored, please help us post our weekly covers around the net? There are a million places the songs (or word of them) can be sent/posted, since the originals are unavoidable, really--
start where?
your facebook
facebook of the covered band/singer
facebook of bands that you think our jam sounds kinda like
facebook fansites of all of the above
ditto of all above for myspace
ditto of all above for blogs (search hypem.com to find relevant blogs)
lastfm sites
absolutepunk.net, and the like
twitter
etc

thanks a million

our constant links are
http://1thisweek.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maniac/100472002738
http://maniac.bandcamp.com/
http://www.myspace.com/mmmaniac

Shawn and Jake

You Belong With Me; Taylor Swift cover by Maniac

We tried something new this week and recorded live into quicktime, and mixed together the audio and video from the 6 takes. With the Australian and American musicians submitting footage separately, we really had no idea how the song would come together until we saw the final product. In order of appearance, from top left, Jake Grigg, Kick, Shawn Harris, Wolfgang A. Fatso, the Artist*, and Shaky.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Meet Maniac II

Jake, I've been recruiting, and through grueling tryouts, have found these musicians to fill out the Maniac roster.

Here I am, in a shirt I bought off a mannequin the other day--

On Keys and Guitar is Wolfgang Amadeus Fatso

And on the bass is the Artist, who goes simply by the symbol

The Taylor Swift cover is ALMOST done--
should be up tomorrow.
Shawn

Shawn and co,

OK, so the first guy is me, Hi.

The second guy is one of our 'percussionists' who goes by the name of 'Kick'. His influences are Tribal, Atlantic, Mess.

The third guy's name is 'Shaky'. He is a hopeless romantic and he plays 'The Orange'.

I'm looking forward to meeting our new American band mates....

JG