I joined an original rock/metal band two years ago. It's been the time of my life. I'm the front person.
I learned two albums of music. We have been doing live performances of these for these two years with a few bigger shows.
We don't have anything with my vocals on it. Our cds and streams are all the old singer and we have very different styles. I have people directly asking me for albums with me on them, but the rest of the band seem very lukewarm on the subject. They throw around a "live album" but don't make any concrete suggestions on when to record or any effort to set it up.
I want to make the change, but I am not sure how to best go about it. Should I reach out to the local studio that recorded the band's last album and see cost of me recording vocals? Should I hire someone to come professionally record our live show? Or, should we just wait until there's a new album to record? That one will take a lot of time still, though we are starting to work on it. Are there options I'm not considering? I'm tired of having nothing to send out to bookers.
Thanks, musicians.