Hi everyone!

I’ve had this project in mind for a while now and I figured I could throw it out on this board and see if anyone’s interested.

First, let me tell how I came up with the idea. In the last two years, I have produced two albums for a singer-songwriter from Canada with pretty good results. The way it worked was he would send me worktapes of his songs along with a few comments about what kind of arrengements he heard for the song. Then I put a “virtual band” together for him, and by virtual I mean it was all done online. I did drums and percussion, then I hired a bass player who did his track on his studio, then I sent that to the guitar guy who did his tracks in his studio, then keys, etc…. then he’d take all the tracks and go to a studio in Canada to record his vocals. Once I got all the tracks I mixed everything and someone else took care of the mastering.

So basically, two whole albums were done (well, the second one is not finished yet but all the tracks are done) and the only guy I met from “the band” was the guitar player, who’s a good friend of mine. Everybody else remains a “virtual band member”. The experience was very enjoyable and I managed to find players with no ego that were willing to follow the production direction I gave them. Like I said, they came out great and even though the songs were not mine, it’s feels great to hold a CD in your hands with your name on it.

So, for the longest time I’ve thought about putting a virtual band together, co-write a few songs with the other guys, use a few songs of mine, use a few songs others bring to the table, do our own tracks in our own studios, mix it all together and put a CD out to sell on CD Baby and places like that. If the right people are involved, it could be a blast and the only money we would have to invest would be what’s needed to put the actual CD together (CD packaging, etc…).

So is anyone interested in doing such thing? I am thinking about a classic/southern rock band, maybe blues …maybe even a country/rock or old school soul…. I’m open to anything, really.

I bring to the table drums, percussion, songwriting, production and mixing and it’d be great to have other guys on board that are fairly talented, easy to get along with, with the same musical taste and the are willing to put some serious work into this thing.
So, if anyone’s interested in doing this thing, I guess we would at least need a bass player, guitar player, keyboard player and a singer.

Again, this is supposed to be fun, not an ego competition or a project that would make us rich. Is anybody interested? If so, send me an e-mail to jarecordings@bellsouth.net with links to your music and a brief description of what you can do. As for me, go to www.juanalbarran.com and www.myspace.com/juanalbarran to listen to some of my producing, mixing, drumming and songwriting.

Juan