Local Holiday Music

Don Hughes · Post by **Don Hughes** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:29 pm

I'm toying with the idea of a holiday recording. I was wondering if there have been any local holiday CDs released in the area.

Don

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:17 pm

Our guitarist, Kenny (old sKool), did a Christmas holiday album a few years ago in his home studio.

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:27 pm

bassist_25 wrote:Our guitarist, Kenny (old sKool), did a Christmas holiday album a few years ago in his home studio.

Entitled "The Twelve Daze of Christmas."

Flaw · Post by **Flaw** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:34 pm

A while back i was thinking of a ways to make some extra cash. I was going to start a novelty band. We would only play around christmas, but we would take all the holiday songs and turn them into death metal.

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:56 pm

witchhunt wrote:
bassist_25 wrote:Our guitarist, Kenny (old sKool), did a Christmas holiday album a few years ago in his home studio.
Entitled "The Twelve Daze of Christmas."

lol

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:57 pm

Flaw wrote:A while back i was thinking of a ways to make some extra cash. I was going to start a novelty band. We would only play around christmas, but we would take all the holiday songs and turn them into death metal.

The Trans Siberian Zombie Death Squad

4_the_pocket · Post by **4_the_pocket** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:15 pm

Local guy, John Cimino's "Lords A Leaping" volumes are good stuff.

http://www.lordsaleaping.com/JohnC/

dayzichick · Post by **dayzichick** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:25 pm

My husband has three holiday CDs for sale. They are all instrumental arrangements of songs that are in public domain. He has one of them for sale at CD Baby . . . .we had to make sure they were in public domain before they would sell it for us which was sort of a pain. Our next step was to do one with vocals but he must have lost interest in it.

I think Dave Distefano did one with various artists in Johnstown that was really cool . . .Johnstown Good Time Christmas or something like that. You could do one for the Altoona area or wherever you are from, a collaboration . . depends on if you want to make money off of it or not. Splitting profits up 10-12 different ways wouldn't make sense. My husband has had his on CD Baby for 2 years now and he's only sold 2 CDs. Basically they are just for warehousing and shipping, you have to promote it yourself. When we promoted it in town, we sold a lot but it was just word of mouth. There are no music retail stores anymore around here. Just Records Off the Wall and FYE.

VENTGtr · Post by **VENTGtr** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:51 pm

4_the_pocket wrote:Local guy, John Cimino's "Lords A Leaping" volumes are good stuff.

http://www.lordsaleaping.com/JohnC/

Man. With that lineup, John, Brett and Mike... Could do album of the worst
jingles ever and it would probably end up being great.

Post by **Jim Price** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:51 pm

There have been several local holiday CD's released over the past few years. One of the most popular continues to be Zupe's Christmas Piano. As 4_the_pocket said, the Lords-A-Leaping CD's are all good, and they're talking doing a fourth CD for this upcoming holiday season. In a less reverent vein, Emily's Toybox has done at least three different Christmas-themed CD's. Sterling Koch put out a solo Christmas album a few years ago. Pittsburgh's B.E. Taylor has put out a couple. And there have been several regional Christmas compilation CD's done over the years, including The Central-PA Christmas Compilation in 2005, which featured Christmas tunes from Emily's Toybox, Negative Space, Poptart Monkeys, the Jellybricks and more.

There have been enough local recorded Christmas tunes issued in the past decade that I can do an entire two-hour Christmas edition of the "Homegrown Rocker," and a few new local Christmas tunes usually show up every holiday season to keep the show fresh.

Victor Synn · Post by **Victor Synn** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:15 pm

If this happens, I would love to do a song or two for a Christmas album. Sounds like a good time.

joltinjeff · Post by **joltinjeff** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:26 am

Victor Synn wrote:If this happens, I would love to do a song or two for a Christmas album. Sounds like a good time.

All the bands on the Rockpage could get together and redo "Don't They Know Its Christmas" "We Are the World", sell the hell outta of it and make us all rich

Tegamal · Post by **Tegamal** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:30 am

I'm in for that!

dayzichick · Post by **dayzichick** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:03 pm

Unfortunately we'd be the only ones buying it, LOL

Tegamal · Post by **Tegamal** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:48 pm

I'd do it just for fun, it'd be a blast!