Day 1 at the office!

So, I was put to work today! Haha! It was my first day in the office! There's so many different components to this project its crazy! In the office there's lots of things going on and everyone has multiple jobs. I learned that its really important to stay current and have a huge knowledge of everything pertaining to the music industry. Which is a very extensive list. I also learned a lot about social networking and how literally everything is on the internet now! I spent today flipping through music magazines, researching, blogging, and taking pictures with the dancing monkey. It's a very different atmosphere in the office than it is hanging out with the band, but it was still a lot of fun. It was really cool being a part of this side of things. I'm loving this project more and more!


xxxxx
Bethany

The Newbie!

Heyo! So my name is Marissa. I am the newest member to The New Admirals and I am sooo excited to be working with these talented and awesome group of guys. Hmmm a little bit about me... well I am originally from Scottsdale, AZ and moved to LA about a year and a half ago and I LOVE it out here!!! The energy and people and hustle its all great. Music has always been my life. My first on stage experience I was 5 singing in front of 500 people and have been loving the stage ever since. I grew up doing musical theatre and once I hit high school was instantly addicted to writing music and playing in bands. I was lucky enough to be on some amazing tours throughout the west coast including Vans Warped Tour and have played with some awesome people in my short life of 21 years. Anyways there is a little taste about me I will keep it short and sweet but much more to come!

Peace out!
<3 Marissa DuBois

It's Me

Hi! I'm Bethany! The "mentee". I'm so excited for this project with the New Admirals! When I met them all the first time, I knew it was going to be so much fun to work with them. They were really welcoming to me and seemed just as excited as I was to be doing this.
I had an awesome time the other night with the band. My job was to take pictures during their rehearsal! Seems easy enough, but they have so much energy when they play, it's impossible to take a clear picture! Half of them turned out blurred but I got some pretty good shots.
Here they are!

First Gig!!!

So The New Admirals are playing, I would call a "warm-up gig" at a great friends wedding but every bit as important as the rest of our future gigs. It's gonna be a nice treat for all us after all the hard work of getting this amazing project right to share with all of you. It's the first one and we're all super stoked. We'll obviously have photos and hopefully some fun stories to share after Sunday. Not only that, Leigh got a new guitar. The music geek in me is always stoked about new, old, and unique instruments. I'm happy for him.

Tune in next week when we start demo tracking. Cake Live will be there to share the experience too. We'll have some videos, photos, and more stories.

-Roger

And then there were...Five!

Meet The New Admirals

from left to right
Marissa DuBois - Vocals
Leigh Walker - Lead Singer
Roger Halecky Jr. - Bass
Jake Coco - Drums
Simon Hedman Davies - Lead Guitar

The New Admirals Twitter

Hey there!

So I just created a Twitter account for the band, please follow us for more news about The New Admirals and Cake Live .

www.twitter.com/TheNewAdmirals

Tonight we had another rehearsal with the band, and it's sounding great, feels like we are really getting it together.

Next week we are aslo meeting up with Cake Live and our mentee Bethany, looking forward to it.

Take it easy

Past, Present, Future..and you!!

So here I am in Los Angeles, California, United States. It's the best state for sunshine in the country and LA is one of the best cities in the world do just about anything that tickles one's fancy. This place puts the jam in my jelly roll!!

Anyway enough chuckle, My name is Roger M Halecky and I am the one and only blonde (at the moment) and bass player in The New Admirals. I grew up in Mesa, AZ. It's on the outskirts of Phoenix, AZ-United States & about 6 hours drive time east of this cool and fun city that I currently reside for the past 7 months.

Just about this time last year, I needed a really good excuse to get out of my home town & move to this city because Mesa isn't exactly the place to follow your dreams..or feel good about future goals that aren't just average for that matter. I pretty much had to fight fight my way out of there. My goal at that time was to just get here by any means necessary, but I needed a reason to be here. I didn't just wanna come here blindly and "see what happens" if that makes sense? I decided that going to music school was my vehicle and purpose to learn some things and start my life. It's safe to say "Welcome to my Life" is the slogan for my experience so far. That should also put in perspective how much of soul eating, dream crushing, non-motivating place I come from.

So my bags were packed! After the huge hassle of student loans, cashing out retirement funds, help from my wonderful family, and calling in favors from just about everyone I know; I made it and I haven't looked back & got back into the school routine. Shortly after I met Leigh Walker through a friend of a friend in a bizarre sequence of events and he was in need of a bass player for his band. Naturally I thought, "Wait a minute, I'm a bass player?" I immediately fell in love with the songs and Leigh's passion and drive for music and hunger for success. After about a week, I joined the band.

Not long after Simon Hedman joined the band as a lead guitarist along with Jake Coco who has been the drummer for quite some time now. We are now an established quartet who hang out together and talk everyday. When I think about where I was a year ago, it blows my mind. I moved to LA, started music school of which has taught me truck loads, found a great band with great songs, killer musicians and overall great people that I have the upmost respect for. This goes for everyone involved as well..you all know who you are Ha!

I guess this brings me to now. I am checking goals off my bucket list left and right, and to think this is only the beginning. I'm living my dream as you read this. If I must give any advice it would be to reach for the stars and keep reaching till the arms fall out of there sockets, anyone who says otherwise should commit suicide. Think where you were a year ago and where you can be a year from now. It's your life and no one else's so find your vehicle to get ya there! If you can, give someone a lift to where they need to go too because, there's room in you car, don't be a jerk! Haha!=)

I had fun writing my will and testament to the future and I look forward to doing more of this. I can't wait to share The New Admirals with the best of all of you and the rest of the world. That's my reward so stay up on everything New Admirals. We all look forward to paying it back to everything involving Cake Live as well!

Welcome to my Life! and why not...Welcome to yours too!!!=)

-Roger M Halecky Jr.