If you are a liner note junkie like me, you probably already know that our guitarist, Cameron Nicklaus, has recorded all of our records. He’s also worked on a lot of other records in Seattle, including the latest from Band of Horses and Boat, to name I guess 2… I only named 2 there. But there are many, many more from the last 6 years that he’s had a hand in making. He comes from a long line of Nicklaus audio engineers… When you and I were taking apart Legos and puzzles, he was taking apart a barely working 2-inch 8-track out in his dad’s home studio. Let’s just say it… That’s pretty adorable.

Last year he toured Sweden with a great singer/songwriter named Theresa Anderson, whom he met through her husband, Arthur. (Cam helped record Arthur’s band World Leader Pretend with Phil Ek for Warner Brothers.) Right after he was done with our live record, he flew to New Orleans to record her live DVD (which is available for presale now)… He flew back home, played our live record release, and promptly left town again to do sound on another tour of Sweden.

Once he gets back, we’ll get to work on finishing the demos for our upcoming record… It’ll be nice to have the magic that is Cameron Nicklaus back in town.

This site and the new live record are signs that we’ve been up and running for quite a while now, but are just now showing it. We’ve been busy doing two things: Mixing this record and writing a new one. We have more than an album’s worth of new songs that we love, and are about to begin recording them. (which let’s be honest, might take us a while like everything else.) BUT, we’ve had a LOT of people from outside the Pacific Northwest ask when we’ll be back in their town, and the answer is we don’t know. Once the new record is done we’d love to get out of town for a little while, but who knows when that will be, or what it will look like… So we came up with the idea that we could record a show and release it in lieu of driving to Fresno. Nothing against Fresno, obviously… We just have other plans tonight.

Anyway, it’s been so great for us to hang out and write new songs every week. Early on we heard from a label guy that rule #1 with bands is that they break up. It’s really hard to stay together in a creative venture like that. It’s also SUPER awkward to grow up in front of people in a van… You start to realize what a selfish jerk you are when three guys are staring at you for 8 weeks in a row in small spaces. We totally get why bands don’t work out, but we’ve always said we’d be friends when the band ended, which in turn has informed how we treat each other while IN the band… Oddly enough, THAT has kept us together, and usually excited to see each other. It’s funny that when bands stop touring, they almost always break up. In our case, staying home has kept us together.

I (Greg) can’t imagine a time where the PP won’t be a band in some sense of the word. Hooking up every week only brings more ideas of things we could do as a band, and we all get more excited about it as time goes on. (The live record is the first of four projects we have in mind.) You really should start playing music with your friends every once in a while, you won’t believe things you get out of it personally.

So, that’s a little update. Check back for some fun things we have planned for the site…

all the best,
The Pale Pacific

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