Fuck it. I can't wait any longer!
Posted by Hudson Eakin on Thursday, February 19, 2009
After I left Faster! Faster! I was sincerely worried about my ability to start something new. I knew I had the drive, the talent and the support, but after having to walk away from something that I'd put all of myself into for the past four years, the idea of doing something new just seemed really hollow. I had a couple songs I'd been kicking around. I tried to do one or two of the songs with Faster! Faster! before it was made official that they wanted to go 100% emo, so I half-heartedly set to work on writing. Around this time I re-watched the movie Fight Club on a night that I was feeling particularly down, and I was punched in the face by my favorite quote, from the book that some would consider a large part of my own personal Bible.
"It is only after we've lost everything, are we free to do anything." - Tyler Durden
I was struck with the realization that I was looking at it all wrong. I hadn't lost a goddamn thing! Nothing was stopping me from taking advantage of this limitless, newfound sense of freedom but my fear of not doing something great! And since I was no longer confined to just one genre of Pop-Punk with a couple hits of Funk and Jazz to taste, I was FREE! Free to make as big a mess of things as I wanted! Immediately a thousand ideas exploded in my brain, and after almost an entire night of frantically scribbling down the basics for every single bass-line, lyric, vocal distortion, and guitar solo in my head, I signed the top of the page with the name of the new project.
The name of this band is The Way Out Is Through because at the end of the day there's only one way to deal with all of the rotten eggs life likes to throw at you. You turn around, face the little fucker throwing those damn eggs, and show him the back of your hand. It's takes less than a tenth as many muscles to reach out and slap somebody than it does to frown about it. I'm not saying you should go and mess-up anybody that's making your life miserable, I'm saying that the only way to deal with life is to accept the fact that life is gonna suck sometimes, and just get through it.
It hadn't even been a couple of months after Tyler Durden again appeared in my life, while I was on a bus headed to New York to visit my girlfriend after a HELLISH week of recording, when a final name for the EP came to me. Originally it was going to be titled "Is This Thing On?". The night before I left Springfield, VT, we recorded the drum tracks. As some of y'all may know, my ideas on drums are pretty solid, but my technique is fucking atrocious. Because of this I managed to accumulate a total of nine blisters on both hands that hurt to touch. My hands looked like they had gone through a meat grinder and were thus heavily gauzed. Moving my fingers the tiniest bit caused them to hurt like hell, and they took about two weeks total to heal completely. I was sitting there worrying about how I was going to go out with my girlfriend that week with my hands out-of-commision when I realized that the pain had become such a normal part of doing things over the past 24 hours that I didn't even really notice it anymore. I had become immune to it. I came to this thought, kinda laughed to myself, changed the song I was listening to to something by Jay-Z (Or was it Lil' Wayne?) and, after writing down the name for the EP, slept like a rock all the way to New York. This EP is about healing, and that's why this EP is called Bandages.
Some people might read this and think "Christ, all this over a six-song EP?". And to that I'll say one more thing, then quit wasting your time with this giant wall of text (I promise this will be one of only a few texts where I go on like this.) This project is easily one of the most personal things I've ever written and performed musically. Bandages is the start of a turning point for me in my career as a musician. I'm running the band differently, I've raised my personal standards of "good work" to a substantial degree, and I'm pushing myself a LOT harder creatively in completely new directions while striving to get better at the things that people know me for. Bandages is not only the start of a new chapter in my career as a musician, but the first time I've been really excited about music for a very long time.
As such, I would love nothing more than to share my music with you. In a few weeks I'll be releasing the entire 6-song for free download, but leading up to our first gig on a stage that JIMI FUCKING HENDRIX HAS PLAYED ON I'll be releasing one song a week for you to enjoy. But once the EP is releaseed take a few moments to read the enclosed digital cover and Google what a Creative Commons License is, I think you'll be pleased.
Thank you for reading, and thank you for supporting The Way Out Is Through,
- Hudson E
The Way Out Is Through
www.myspace.com/thewayoutisthrough
"It is only after we've lost everything, are we free to do anything." - Tyler Durden
I was struck with the realization that I was looking at it all wrong. I hadn't lost a goddamn thing! Nothing was stopping me from taking advantage of this limitless, newfound sense of freedom but my fear of not doing something great! And since I was no longer confined to just one genre of Pop-Punk with a couple hits of Funk and Jazz to taste, I was FREE! Free to make as big a mess of things as I wanted! Immediately a thousand ideas exploded in my brain, and after almost an entire night of frantically scribbling down the basics for every single bass-line, lyric, vocal distortion, and guitar solo in my head, I signed the top of the page with the name of the new project.
The name of this band is The Way Out Is Through because at the end of the day there's only one way to deal with all of the rotten eggs life likes to throw at you. You turn around, face the little fucker throwing those damn eggs, and show him the back of your hand. It's takes less than a tenth as many muscles to reach out and slap somebody than it does to frown about it. I'm not saying you should go and mess-up anybody that's making your life miserable, I'm saying that the only way to deal with life is to accept the fact that life is gonna suck sometimes, and just get through it.
It hadn't even been a couple of months after Tyler Durden again appeared in my life, while I was on a bus headed to New York to visit my girlfriend after a HELLISH week of recording, when a final name for the EP came to me. Originally it was going to be titled "Is This Thing On?". The night before I left Springfield, VT, we recorded the drum tracks. As some of y'all may know, my ideas on drums are pretty solid, but my technique is fucking atrocious. Because of this I managed to accumulate a total of nine blisters on both hands that hurt to touch. My hands looked like they had gone through a meat grinder and were thus heavily gauzed. Moving my fingers the tiniest bit caused them to hurt like hell, and they took about two weeks total to heal completely. I was sitting there worrying about how I was going to go out with my girlfriend that week with my hands out-of-commision when I realized that the pain had become such a normal part of doing things over the past 24 hours that I didn't even really notice it anymore. I had become immune to it. I came to this thought, kinda laughed to myself, changed the song I was listening to to something by Jay-Z (Or was it Lil' Wayne?) and, after writing down the name for the EP, slept like a rock all the way to New York. This EP is about healing, and that's why this EP is called Bandages.
Some people might read this and think "Christ, all this over a six-song EP?". And to that I'll say one more thing, then quit wasting your time with this giant wall of text (I promise this will be one of only a few texts where I go on like this.) This project is easily one of the most personal things I've ever written and performed musically. Bandages is the start of a turning point for me in my career as a musician. I'm running the band differently, I've raised my personal standards of "good work" to a substantial degree, and I'm pushing myself a LOT harder creatively in completely new directions while striving to get better at the things that people know me for. Bandages is not only the start of a new chapter in my career as a musician, but the first time I've been really excited about music for a very long time.
As such, I would love nothing more than to share my music with you. In a few weeks I'll be releasing the entire 6-song for free download, but leading up to our first gig on a stage that JIMI FUCKING HENDRIX HAS PLAYED ON I'll be releasing one song a week for you to enjoy. But once the EP is releaseed take a few moments to read the enclosed digital cover and Google what a Creative Commons License is, I think you'll be pleased.
Thank you for reading, and thank you for supporting The Way Out Is Through,
- Hudson E
The Way Out Is Through
www.myspace.com/thewayoutisthrough