James William Roy launches The James Rocket

[jawillroy]

What do you have against toms? D:

Nothing at all: listen to the album version! (Well, there's a few.)

[Markleford]

What do you have against toms? D:

Well, Paper Valentines relies mostly on snare 16ths on 4 as its main fill motif. Well, *exclusively* so in the original. In the new version I did add some descending toms in the place of that in the verse/chorus transition. Same rhythmically, though.

But otherwise, it just ain't that kind of song! It just goes "MO-town MO-town MO-town MO-town" for a while, and then it's all "go-in' SURF-IN' go-in' SURF-IN' go-in' SURF-IN' go-in' SURF-IN'" for the rest of it.

What more could one possibly need?!?! Mike Portnoy said he wanted to play on this track when I played him the demo over at my place one time, but I said I wanted him to play on the closing track, "Tenants", instead. I think he did a tastefully understated job on that one.

- m

[jawillroy]

Portnoy!? Dude, I told you I wanted Jon Wurster. Or Grohl, if Wurster was busy. This aggression will not stand, man.

[Markleford]

Ooh, a big sloppy kiss of an album review!

http://blog.clearvisionstudios.net/t...-album-review/

And in other news...

WE HAVE SEEN PAPER VALENTINES PLAYED IN ROCK BAND BLITZ!

And played *masterfully* so! Can't wait another week to play it myself: this is gonna be AWESOME!

(...and *more* awesome later, with the keyboard version...)

Cheers,
- m

[HMXLachesis]

And in other news...

WE HAVE SEEN PAPER VALENTINES PLAYED IN ROCK BAND BLITZ!

And played *masterfully* so!

What, no credit to those of us who play it unmasterfully in Blitz?

[Scratching The Itch]

Hey guys,
Been listening to your new album today. Loving it!
Why didn't you include "The Bartender's Boyfriend"? Just curious.
Will have to make a playlist that includes that as a bonus track or something.

[jawillroy]

I think it's in the running for the *next* album...

(edit DERP) and Thank you! Awesome.

[Markleford]

What, no credit to those of us who play it unmasterfully in Blitz?

(Publicly shareable link to) Video or it didn't happen!

- m

[HMXLachesis]

(Publicly shareable link to) Video or it didn't happen!

- m

Seeing my lousy score at the end of Nord's masterful playthrough wasn't enough?

I PLAYED IT FIRST I TELL YOU.

[Markleford]

Seeing my lousy score at the end of Nord's masterful playthrough wasn't enough?

I PLAYED IT FIRST I TELL YOU.

Oh, we don't doubt that, and appreciate your support greatly...

...we just want to share pre-release video with the world!

(srsly, though, thanks for everything!)

- m