Fountainhead

I just remembered my password

If anyone wants to chat about

-Parliament's role in government during the Renaissance
-The abominable practice of slavery
-Hot new albums

this is the place to do it

Woo

Let's hear it for Jack McD without whom this website would not exist. Also, I'm told he recently got promoted at the Apple store to Lead Mac Genius. Congratulations!

hey you should update the fountainhead site because it gets me down when it's empty

if you want you can even copy paste this email

Hello Fountainhead

Hello Fountainhead Fans

Update us on your life so we can remain in touch with those we love
and then MAYBE we'll tell you how the album is going.

The Battle on the Shady Autumn Day

Nate has the Drum Tracks down.

Mark has bass done.

It'd be cool if Justin would get done and I think he's doing it soon and then it'll be Dave and I after Andrew puts some mad ivory tickling up in those jams.

Should we do the chateau battle of the bands??/ I'd be game for it but I could see you hip peeps thinking it'd be lame.

A new Update

Nate has the Drum Tracks down.

Mark has the Bass Kicked.

It's time for justin and I to wail for a while and david to toot and andrew to tickle the ivories.

A Very Fountainhead Update

OFFICIAL FOUNTAINHEAD GOINGS ON:

Andrew's at language camp
Justin's in Michigan
Nate and I are going to Wisconsin
Mark lives on the other side of town which is about as far away as Wisconsin

We get back Sunday, do you guys want to practice Monday?

GOOD

Also someone should get us a show because they're fun.

Dear Lusus:

Lusus we miss you.

The Fountainhead Jam Ensemble

Who wants to rock out this May?

Okay guys

JAM

Alrighty. When does everyone's spring break fall? I'm just curious.

Everyone should check out this video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5207159640493874061&q=dangers+of+evolution

17:03 is really good. It's really long so if you find any other good parts you should post them too.

I hacked mike's account

And all i got was this stupid entry.

--Jake

New Material Pt. 1

In the zip file should be a pdf of the full score, a midi of the full score, an mp3 of everything (including vocals), mp3s of each part, and jpgs of each part. This is by no means complete, but I figure that if we want to do this song, we can learn the parts now so that we don't end up spending hours of everyone learning their parts.

Download Here and Now

D to the ittmar

This update is for the band members. I want to urge you all to keep recording with Dittmar whenever you can. If all of you get your parts done before the summer we can have it all done once I visit Minnesota. If you don't have Dittmar's number you can email me (dancingtay@gmail.com) and I will send it back. I just don't want to post it out on the internet for all to see.

If we keep waiting until next summer it will turn out like it did last time. We'll sit around and nothing will get done. Also, if we get everyone's part recorded, we can spend next summer adding new stuff to the cd if we want. I know Andrew's been working hard on new material and I have a couple things in store as well.

News

Sorry to break up your 420 race, but I thought I should make a formal post about what I've been up to lately.

I've emailed several places about getting gigs, and gotten a response back from one, The Red Sea Club in Minneapolis. I'm looking at Saturday December 17th as a promising date, but something in December is altogether likely, even if it's a weekday or a Sunday night.

So first of all, can we do it?

Second of all, how many fans from Rochester can we get up to Minneapolis for a show sometime this winter? How many people who we know can we get in Minneapolis? I think we should contact Roxbury, since rumor has it they are big fans and see if they'll help us with promotion. The million dollar question is: Would you go to Minneapolis for Fountainhead? I've given the Entertainment Manager at the Red Sea a conservative estimate of ten to fifteen, but I said we might be able to pull in one to two dozen.

The other thing is that I was also recommended to MNska.com. I've emailed someone there asking a few probing questions so we'll see how that turns out, however it will be a lot easier to book shows if we are playing with other groups that have their own followings as well. My greatest premonition about MNska is that it might limit us to playing all ska shows, and we all at least like to think that our sound is ... diverse to say the least, genre-defying if you will.

So ... anyone and everyone -- chime in.

URL Change

In the exciting world of Internet and Technology, Fountainhead has moved from jackmcd.com to arbeyond.com. The site is entirely intact and you can still reach it via fountainhead.jackmcd.com, but for future reference, change your bookmarks from fountainhead.jackmcd.com to fountainhead.arbeyond.com.

For those of you with login names, remember to login at www.fountainhead.arbeyond.com/cgi-bin/mt.cgi rather than at the alternative.

Thank you.

The Scoop

I can get a show in Duluth sometime this winter if we can manage a set that's between 30 minutes and an hour. We'd be playing with my brother's band probably at some place like Pizza Luce or Dose Quarters.

So when are you guys available this winter? I think if we just practice sometime this winter we can book a show on a weekend sometime and we don't necessarily have to play during winter break, however that would be ideal.

My brother also gave my number to a friend he knows in Rochester who has a band to see if he can get us any gigs in that area.

And while we're looking into gigs, it's time to make a press kit. If we pick the best four or five live recordings from BOTB that were just posted a while back, that would be a satisfactory demo for most low-end gigs which is what we'd be looking at for this winter.

So what we need is four of those live songs for a demo, a few photos, and background info. I realize that pretty much all of these things are on the site already, but we should put it all together and figure out what songs, photos, etc. we want in the press kit. It wouldn't really be any work at all except printing things off and mailing them. And picking them.

Alright. We need five things:
1. Would you be interested in a show in Duluth?
2. When are you guys available?
3. What songs go in our demo? (Fans should sound in on this one too.)
4. What pictures go in the press kit?
5. What do we want for background info?