I've been thinking about this concept of Soylent Green wondering just where we are going. The latest thing that this crazy bunch of cooks has cooked up seems to be more on the lines of a rap/disco parody. Imagine this group performing something in the genre. The new tune will be titled "Stomping With Z", yes, it's another Zach song. On Dana's new recording device we laid down bass drum & snare tracks. The next piece was to have John laid down a rhythm guitar track. Next Dana & I (yes, that's right) sang the "rapping" part of the song. It is not finished yet, we need a nice funky guitar & some more vocal parts. Should be an interesting morsel to add to the Soylent feast. 

     Additionally, John has arranged yet another performance. This Aug. 14th we will be performing in Adrian Michigan at the Lenawee Christian Center for the Relay for Life cancer benefit. Rumor has it that we will go on stage around 4:00pm. During practice discussions, we have kicked around the idea of performing primarily an electric set, however, may also do some acoustic numbers. Should be fun. For more details, email me & I will give directions. Bark2000@yahoo.com
7/2/99 - Mike

     This month, we are proud to announce a new song, "All I Have, All I Know" or maybe we should change it to "The Finest Gift" because that is what we call it anyway. Dana wrote the chorus and music and Mike filled in the choruses. Chris showed up to use Dana's new 8-Track digital recorder to add guitar and vocals. It is a much more mellow piece than we have been writing recently, but I think it is a nice change.

     In web news, Chris attempted to change the audio files to streaming and botched it all up. Sorry! Some of it is fixed now; maybe I'll try again once I am on vacation. I also put the "Random Soylent Green Song" in a separate window so you can click on it whenever you have a hankerin' for a tune. 

     We will be concentrating on recording and writing this summer, so be on the lookout for some more new songs.

-Chris 6/06/99

     After a rocky start, we have officially declared our coffee house gig at Dolce's Cafe a success. At least we proved that we can throw a performance together at the last minute and still sound pretty damn good! Whether it spawns more live opportunities for us or not, it looks like we are going back into the studio to work on several new recordings. Be on the lookout for some fresh originals in the near future.

     In web news, we have been linked by a couple new sites. The Progressive Rock Ring has welcomed us after a few technical glitches and we are now catalogued on The Ultimate Band List. We are also part of MPulse, a service that ranks the most popular music sites on the web. I have made many updates to the site as well. I put it all in frames at the beginning of April and have since changed it all back finding frames to be more trouble than they are worth. The home of SG does have a new look, a new section, "Photos", and many minor polishings that probably only I would notice.

   April should be a good month for Soylent Green. We just finished recording Wondering Why and Wired made the top 50 downloads on Free-Music.com. (I believe it maxed at #37.) John got us a coffee house gig at Dolce's Cafe in Adrian for the end of April sometime. Look for more info when I get all the details. If you like us, please attend. We always sound better with a friendly audience.

    I have just finished making some renovations to the site. Please feel free to e-mail me with your feedback. In addition to some cosmetic changes, I added a few new pages. Recipes has some creative ways to serve Soylent Green to an ever discriminating family, plus a way to submit your own favorite dishes. Contact Us has more info on how to find the members in cyber-space, plus a survey where you can vote for what you feel is the best new SG song. There is a quiz to test your trivial knowledge of the band members. Links has sites that we exchange links with, plus other random Soylent Green sites. I also polished up the guestbook. It is sort of like a message board, so if you have any thoughts you'd like to share, please add something. Mike and Chris (me) also added some stuff to our bio pages. Now that I am fairly proud of what we have, please rank our site from the home page if you like it. The last time I checked out the highest ranked music sites they were not as good as ours.

Chris - 4/1/99

   It seems that we are finally putting the finishing touches on Wondering Why. Look for the finished product on our site soon. It sounds fairly good I think, but it has taken us to a new realm of technical problems. Hopefully we will begin recording on Dana's 8 Track digital soon. He needs to get a zip drive for it and we will be in business.

    In performance news, Mike has ordered a coffee house drum set. It should be the centerpiece of a nice acoustic combo for small cafes and restaurants. We have been working on a few blues and jazz standards, plus the originals, so keep on the lookout for Soylent Green being served at a coffee house near you!

    Our last practice we were supposed to jam with a female jazz singer. She ended up getting sick so we did some recording instead. We got a lot of work done on Wondering Why but did not have time to work on All of Me. I am just interested in playing with Dave the keyboardist. It is weird being in a band with people you have never met.

    We have been added to the "Free Music" ring. Just use the controls on our front page to find other sites with free music. Some are cool, some aren't, but take a chance. A spirit of adventure is a good thing. If you would like a guaranteed good free music site check out "Twisted Helices" at http://www.twisted-helices.com/th/ unless you are afraid of twisted creative noise.

    Just for fun, Mike has made a Soylent Green word search for your amusement. Bon Appetite!

Chris - 3/8/99

    Well, it looks like we are taking the turn to a blues/jazz combo. I guess it does not take too long to get sick of playing in red-neck piss-hole bars. We are going to try for the Restaurant or Coffee House gigs. Sounds nice and peaceful, if we can coerce Mike into not rockin' out on his drum set!

    Also we are waiting for Dana to get his 8 track digital recorder. With that we will probably re-record some old S.G. standards and some new tunes and try to make a decent quality CD. We will hopefully try to sell some over the Internet and are looking into ways to promote it. We have been posted in the Real Audio section of The Free Music Archive. Look for a couple tunes there.

    In other Internet news, John has connected (though he has not tried ICQ or MPlayer yet) which leaves Dana as the only Luddite left in the band. I am doing some research on adding some text and graphics to our music files and getting them to be streaming instead of just compressed. Maybe we can look forward to a live performance over the Internet this summer?

-Chris 2/2/99