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Scarlet Jinn, vocalist of Rock Scarlet blogs on songwriting techniques, dream recall, visionary songwriting, consciousness in entertainment, recording studios, home computer based recording, live shows, band promotion, and personal evolution
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New Songs!
Some of you have been asking about new songs, and YES! – we are writing/arranging a bunch of new tunes – some of which we’ve started tossing into live shows, such as Seven Wonders. As we play the clubs/bars, we realize that some peopl...
Friday Oct 9th at Happy Hours
Well Autumn is here and it’s October already… now that its cooler, we’ll just have to heat things up a bit! Coming up soon, a Friday night Rock Scarlet show at Happy Hours. We’ll do four sets, probably a new remake or two, and may...
Updates…Rock Scarlet slowly morphing into Psychanaut
If you’ve seen my entries on Facebook and Twitter, you know that I recently spent a bunch of hours re-working our digital backdrop for tomorrow night’s Rock Scarlet show. While working on it, I realized that it’s really a Psychanaut backd...
Cresfest this weekend Aug 22nd
Rock Scarlet will be playing Cresfest at a bout 9:00 PM this Saturday, august 22nd. The entertainment starts at about 4:00 and includes other bands, comedians, belly dancers and fire dancers. Woo-hoo! This year there has be...
Time for a new drummer!
OK, it’s time for Rock Scarlet to start looking for a new drummer! Although we’ll miss Richie, new energy is always great, and change is good – Sooo here we go! Richie will play a few more shows if necessary, but we’re ...
New songs…
Working on a few new tunes that are going to be a bit more dynamic and airy than our usual fair, but definitely still rock. Finally, it feels like we’re creating the musical energy that goes with the lyrics. I’d say th...
Blue Pearl chorus
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. –William Blake You’ll probably recognize that “world in a grain of sand” portion from the lyrics of the chor...
Rehearsal and updates
Last Wednesday we had a great rehearsal; we’re working up a bunch of new tunes, rearranging bits and getting them ready to perform and record. We’d skipped last week, and we’ll skip this upcoming week too… so it was important to really ...
thoughts on YOUR input
Tonight I was reading an article on Huffington Post by John Mellencamp decrying the corporate control of the music business that began in the 80s. It was a good article, in which he said something that really touched me: "The artis...
New Lyrics posted
We’ve posted three more song lyrics both here at scarletjinn.com and rockscarlet.com. The newest additions are: Waves Mushroom Sky Breathing These songs are all in the current show set lists. People always ask about Mushroom Sky… ...
Show at Happy Hours this Friday Feb 27
Here’s the new poster for that show. We’ll also be celebrating Richie’s birthday After the poster was printed we learned that they want us to start at 9:00 PM, so come on out a little earlier and help us get the place jumping! ...
Show this Friday January 30th
We miss you guys are are really looking forward to seeing you after our holiday break. How about this Friday January 30th? We’ll be doing an all night show at Goodfellas in Springfield…it’s 21 and up, and it’s FREE. So com...
Mixing again
Brian and I are back at work mixing, dong a few overdubs here ‘n there, with Richie giving some eq input on the drums. Between us we’re getting better at mixing all those tracks we have already recorded. We have all these tunes close...
Holiday Season
Now the holiday season is upon us; everybody has a lot of family and friend type stuff to do around this time, so no shows. Brian, Richie and I also will be getting together for writing, and we’re back to mixing our stuff here at the home s...
This Friday’s Show November 14 2009
Wanted to remind everybody to come out this Friday night November 14th to Goodfellas - we’ll be playing four sets of all your fave Scarlet tunes and some choice remakes. Expect it to get loose and crazy since we have all night to tear it up! ...
New date and time for this weekend’s gig
OK, last minute changes! We’re now playing tomorrow, Friday November 7th at Goodfellas in Springfield. And we’re going on first - at 9:00 PM. We’ll play till 11, and then Avid will be up afterwards. Come on out and celebrate with...
A few photos from Gung Ho Studio
We’ve taken a few photos at the studio, plus some video. Below are a few of the pics: Doing the lead vocals on the enchanting C-24 mic. Brian below playing the Martin acoustic guitar Richie set up a stripped down version of the kit As ...
At Gung Ho Studios Eugene Oregon
I’m writing this from the studio: this photo is of Lav (Mike Lazer Lavin) the engineer. Wow! He’s fast, intuitive, inspired, and fun to be with. Having been in a lot of studios, I can attest that the engineer’s energy can reall...
Next Couple of Gigs in November 08
Well, we’re headed into the studio for All Hallow’s Eve weekend - in keeping with our ever joyful and somewhat spacy mojo. . If you remember, our last recording session was in the slightly haunted house down in Cottage Grove. So it&...
Pre Production for more recording
The next couple of weeks we are doing a bit of pre-production for going into Gung Ho Studios. As always, it’ll be a blast, and we’re looking forward to working/playing with Mike the engineer. ( to distinguish him from our bassist, Mi...
Updates and Upcoming Show September 26
We’re getting caught up on stuff (like writing and booking for Autumn) while Mike is working with the Mason Williams show - so here’s the first Fall Scarlet show: Friday night, September 26 at Goodfellas in Eugene. Show starts around 9:4...
This Friday - Scarlet show again!
Another surprise show! This Friday, August 15, we’ll be doing three sets at Happy Hours in Eugene, OR. Expect us to start around 9:30… not totally sure of what tunes we’ll be doing; but probably a bunch of our rock originals and s...
Last Friday Night Show (and thanks for the roses)
WOW! thanks to everyone who came out to that last minute show this weekend:-D There wasn’t even time to send a newsletter about that one. As it turned out, those who were there got to hear a ton of Rock Scarlet tunes, some new ones and some of ...
New Music Download Page
Finally, we’ve begun posting full length versions of songs for free download. It’s here on this site, at http://www.ScarletJinn.com/music.html . Everything will be free and posted as its converted into MP3’s. ( And if you want t...
