{"id":20,"date":"2009-01-05T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-01-05T21:44:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T01:44:05","slug":"2009-new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/2009-new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 new beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 2009 tracking drums for new Mastermind music!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y53\/mastermindband\/photos\/090114_Rich_studio.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rich Berends hammers it out.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>January 2009 studio update:<\/strong> a Bill Berends solo rock guitar album is about 50% completed and mixed with the rest well under way. I hope to have this finished soon and out in the first part of this year. This is really like nothing I&#8217;ve ever done before, it&#8217;s not a blues record (tho&#8217; I do want to make one of those) nor is it prog-rock. It&#8217;s more a collection of driving rock tunes (with some lighter moments) that are platforms for just jamming out on the guitar&#8230; that thing that I do! I am very pleased with how this is shaping up.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mastermind update:<\/strong> we&#8217;ve chosen which new compositions will make up a new Mastermind album and work has begun in earnest. Although the infamous &#8220;Insomnia&#8221; album is still in the can, we&#8217;ve decided to get to work on a new project that is more akin to the earlier direction of the band. It may take a while, but it feels like we are back on track and I am devoting all my available time now to the process of recording. If all goes well we could have multiple new titles this year. We&#8217;ll get them out there one way or another.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborations:<\/strong> I recently recorded some guitar tracks for Shawn Gordon of ProgRock Records slated for one of his upcoming projects. I would enjoy collaborating with more artists in the future and am open to considering projects that will be an actual release of some sort and may be something I will enjoy. Feel free to run it by me and see what we can work out.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for the moment&#8230; back to work!<\/p>\n<p>~Bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2009 tracking drums for new Mastermind music! Rich Berends hammers it out. January 2009 studio update: a Bill Berends solo rock guitar album is about 50% completed and mixed with the rest well under way. I hope to have this finished soon and out in the first part of this year. This is really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mastermind","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}