The Distance - Inspired By You (For The Broken Hearted) Album Version

Blackened - Unscathed

For the 5 people that care / ask me about this. Before The Distance signed to Abacus Records and released "The Rise, The Fall & Everything In Between" in 2006; We had worked with producer Matt Hyde (Sum 41, Hatebreed, Slayer). Our relationship with Matt started in 2004 and was a really great experience. He believed we could push our sound (most people remember The Distance from our Bridge 9 Records release "Your Closest Enemies" which was a very fast pissed off hardcore band) into something "more". We recorded 4 songs together with initial tracking done at Trod Nossel studios in Wallingford, CT and the rest being done in Matt Hyde's home studio in CA. After these four songs were recorded we continued to work with Matt for a few more months, pretty much had an entire album written that was REALLY different. Sometimes I wonder if we would have done the album with Matt what it would have been like, and I can only imagine how much more polarizing folks would have felt. I think The Distance as a whole learned a lot about writing, recording from Matt Hyde. Without his contribution I wouldn't have gotten to record what is one of my favorite The Distance tracks.  James Ward, John Dobyns &  Lonn Bologna are amazing musicians and I am lucky to have been able to play with them and have some really great journeys. Enjoy

Here is a link to what the final version of "Inspired By You" (For The Broken Hearted) 
produced by Shep Goodman / Released on Abacus Records 2006
http://soundcloud.com/jayreason/inspired-by-you

**** this was always intended as a demo, we never intended to release it so please remember that, this is not a mix or master, just pre-production ****

The Distance "Inspired By You" Matt Hyde Pre-Production Demo

©2006 from the album "The Rise, The Fall & Everything In Between" 
additional vocals: Bert McCracken

The Distance - At Least I'm Good at Something

Produced By Shep Goodman
Featuring: Chauncey CC

The Distance - Just for a Couple Hours (Album Version)

How my friend Clark starts off his Tuesday Morning while everyone else is working

JayReason