For the past 10 days or so Alan Doyle has been sharing his experiences of recording the album on his official social media accounts on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. He has shared his thoughts and words, in posts, photographs and short videos which provide fans, not only an insight in what they may expect on the new album music wise, but also how musicians go about making music and an album in today’s technological society.
The posts certainly gave me a greater understanding and appreciation of how much work goes into making music and an album from the initial writing of the music, to playing and recording the lyrics and music, to the editing and a final version being available to listen too and buy digitally or on a CD. How lucky are we to be able to buy a song for under a dollar where I come from.
Alan shared on Instagram that his talented guitarist and photographer Shehab Illyas was making a small documentary about the making of the album. From the response to the post there are a lot of fans like me who can’t wait to see this documentary. It will be real gem for sure.
I enjoyed all the posts including those from The Beautiful Gypsies including Cory Tetford and Todd Lumley who also shared some photographs. Our boys certainly have some amazing toys including guitars, pianos and recording equipment. I really liked Todd’s photograph of Bob Rock and that one is included in this post.
I really liked one of Alan’s Facebook live posts in which he describes his feelings of being nervous and excited at starting a new project and working with famous record producer Bob Rock. It is good to know that accomplished people also get nervous at starting new projects and work.
I also really enjoyed Alan's focus on social media posts on the inclusiveness of all The Beautiful Gypsies rather than the focus being on him. I have found the development from Alan Doyle the solo artist to Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies member really interesting.
As with all the other projects that Alan Doyle has done and shared on social media, I have collected a few posts here mostly for my own interest and own record. This post is divided into two parts, the first part is the lead up to the recording and the second part is the recording and completion. I have also included a post of Alan making the announcement he was working with Bob Rock late last year on his Twitter account.
The posts are from the official Instagram and Twitter accounts of Alan Doyle and Todd Lumley. No copyright infringement intended.
