Hired Help

If you have been keeping up with my blog (my stats say 125,000 of you have), then you'll know I am in a bit of a writing predicament. I have some great friends supporting the project, but most don't live in Chicago. I figured I needed some help. And fast! So, I took some of the extra money that I made from my "Be Careful of Credit Cards" tour I did in 2005, and hired some studio musicians. Since most of that money is gone, I had to find some cheap help. I hired one professional guitarist. His name is Joey Baggadonuts and he has worked on some really great stuff. He recorded a guitar solo on one of Fall Out Boy's songs and he was stand-in for Bon Jovi in the "It's My Life" music video. He is currently lead guitarist for one of my favorite bands, The Punks of LHS. PLEASE check them out and buy a t-shirt or something! Check em

Anyways, he didn't feel comfortable being alone with me so he insisted on hiring a professional singer. Luckily, as Joey and I were having lunch at the hot dog stand in front of The Home Depot, we met Mateo. He is a young illegal Mexican who was looking for work. He said he was a skilled drywaller and vocalist. So we took our chances and hired him at $8 a vocal track. We only did one so it ended up being a real bargain. And before you say that I'm mean for paying him that much, I should tell you that I broke my strict "No babies in the studio" rule for him. (Apparently he had traded his watch for a baby during the van ride from El Paso to Chicago.) They came up with a song about Mateo's favorite Mexican treat that his mom made, chocolate cotton candy. I am not sure it will make in on the album, but I managed to take a quick video of them doing vocals together.



*The lyrics of Chocolate Cotton Candy do not reflect the views of Spillproof TiJ, his management team, or record label LAUGH TRACK RECORDS/EMI.

HUGE NEWS! ALBUM TITLE AND RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCED

I am super excited to announce that the new album will drop next year on December 12th!

"Just In Time To Die" will be in stores 12/12/12. Please pick up a copy (If it's the last thing you do...)

midterms and midterm elections

I only had one midterm for school.

I didn't vote for political whatevers.

93% of Americans said Spillproof TiJ is better at guitar than Brett Pond.

I apologized to Brett recently for the cyber bullying. You see, Brett is having a difficult time writing his new album. Maybe we will do a split EP on vinyl? Maybe we will go home and die? Maybe we will cyber bully Josiah Rosenberger until he writes songs for our albums?