"sam" wrote in message
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I am the bass player from said "band". A significant problem that we
have that has not been mentioned yet is that our extremely talented
drummer is leaving around august to attend the Berkley school of music.
We really want to do an ep/lp with this guy before he leaves, so we do
not really have time to take our band on a few "dates". We have been
looking for a drummer for a VERY long time and we only found this guy
with the help of said record label. The reason we want to recored with
this guy is so we can get a good sounding cd out, get our name out, and
then be able to find a decent drummer fast by simply stating that we
are auditioning.


That's a different matter entirely. Then I'd suggest you record everyone on
different tracks, treat CD #1 as a demo (except the drummer), use the drum
track for practice, and incrementally record better tracks over it to
perfect the CD. Just don't count on sales of CD #1, in fact I think 1000 is
probably 900 too many. Still not sure about the label deal . . . . .
Joe