A Break In Chapters and an Update

Posted by admin on June 9th, 2010 | No Comments »

I’m back.

My blog platform was broken for about two weeks, and then I went to Paris for a week for the most romantic week of my life with my lovely lady.  It was a surprise for her birthday and we romped around the most beautiful city in the world for 7 days and ate our faces off.

And now I’m back, albeit ten pounds heavier

Much has happened in the past three weeks to say the least.  Our team has been growing beautifully and I have a big smile on my face.

As far as the real time story is concerned:  I think I over-estimated myself and right now, I can only post once a week.  This will change most likely in the next couple months and I can start posting regularly again, but since we are in our beginning stages as a full time business, I have my hands very very full so I will do my best.

Here is a quick update on what has happened in the past three weeks:

1) Meet Nicole: our new manager.  She rocks and we are figuring out exactly how she is going to use her talents to help grow this band

2) Meet Beatrice our publicist.  You will be seeing much of her work pay off in the next coming months.

3) We are going into the studio in July and August to record FULL BAND tracks….FINALLY. YAY

4) We will have shows up the wazoo in August through December so stay tuned if you live anywhere in the United States

5) We are looking for investors who want to take a risk and own a piece of one of America’s next hottest performing acts.  Know anybody?

6) Meet Nick and Lisa:  They are interns but they don’t get coffee or make copies.  They are helping build the company from the ground up and I am grateful to have them.  Say hi to them at our upcoming shows.  They will be running around or sitting at the merch table.

Stay tuned.

love

Zach

Chapter 19: Rocking My Radical Plan and Being Nicer to Myself

Posted by admin on May 7th, 2010 | No Comments »

First off, I will say that I am ROCKING my radical plan.

A couple parts of my plan were to book myself at five more venues, get featured on 3 more interview or blog talk radio shows, and to write a brilliant business plan.  Well I will just tell you that I booked us another 10 shows, got featured on 3 radio shows and am in the middle of finishing a yes, brilliant business plan.  I am happy, rocking and in love with my life, music and business.

On another note, during rehearsal today Sally, Keesha and I were looking at the rough draft of a new promo video that we shot at our last gig.  Its the rough draft so a lot of it is apt to change even though it’s already solid, and I was being mean to myself…making comments about how I might look or sound like a tool when I was being interviewed etc.  Keesha said something of the sort like “wow Zach, you are really going to town on yourself,” a little taken aback by how harsh of a critic I was being.

Why was I being like this?  Because I think I’ve realized that it’s easier to and SAFER to think poorly or self-depricate rather than take the risk and own who I really am or what I am standing for.  I am standing for putting music out there that helps heal peoples hearts, that moves people emotionally in the way that it sounds and feels to them.  I am writing about accessible things: love, motivation, romance etc, but the arrangement, the tone and timbre of the music is uplifting, spiritual and healing.  I was talking about this in my interview and got insecure that I might sound arrogant or self obsessed and really I was just scared of being as vulnerable as I was being, of really telling it like it is.

What I learned is that it takes an amazing amount of courage to do what I do, but even more so to OWN it…to be unapologetic, not in an arrogant way, but in a confident way, about who I am and what I stand for.

I will post the video when it’s finished.

Love

Zach