Fear Zero

Free FZ Guitar lesson!

Sadler — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:47:54 +0000

Hi everyone, I have posted the first of many guitar lessons I will be doing via video and tab online. The current lesson shows how to play a song called “Sunday Morning” from Fear Zero’s first self titled CD in 2003. I hope you enjoy it.

Click here to view video:

Read the tab I have included for important details.

Have fun!

Writing for other artists

Sadler — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:59:33 +0000

Lately I have been working on some songs for a songwriter in LA that has connections to some big time producers there. The hope is to get a demo into the hands of a certain female singer and have her record it for her next CD. It is funny singing these early demos, especially when they are sung from the female perspective. I think my testosterone is getting in the way of an inspired performance lol! Got the fingers crossed…

Fear Zero chosen by Sellaband.com

Sadler — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:20:38 +0000

Fear Zero was chosen as one of 10 bands by Sellaband and the Dutch automotive company SEAT to take part in an online voting competition for $1,000 towards our next CD.

We need your votes. Click on this link: http://www.seat-world.com/#/coverflow_audio/music_52_freetracks then scroll using arrows on the left or right side of the page and when you get to Fear Zero hit “Stem” to vote for us.

Contest runs from Nov. 10 to Dec. 8.

Votes can be cast once per day, most votes wins.

Thanks everybody!

Jammin’ and Fear Zero on www.sellaband.com/fearzero

Sadler — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:47:00 +0000

Had a fun time last night at my buddies b-day party. Sometimes it’s fun to just get together a bunch of ragtag musicians and play music for the sake of music, no worries about playing music people can dance to, or making sure you don’t play anything too crazy and get fired from the gig lol. We just created for a solid 2 hours, making up songs, melodies, chord progressions and then improvising over all of it. 5 minute long solos, 15 minute long jams centered around creativity. I always have fun doing that sort of stuff and I don’t get to often enough as life gets in the way of that (gotta pay the bills).

Creativity is my drug of choice and I hope to continue developing mine for a long time to come.

BTW, check us out at www.sellaband.com/fearzero and if you are feeling generous, invest a few $ into the making of our next CD. You can check out what you get in return for investing in the band at the link provided.

That’s all for now, stay tuned, I will be posting some guitar lesson videos and acoustic performances of songs from past CDs in the coming weeks.

Fear Zero live at The Roxy July 30th!

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:24:41 +0000

It has been about 4 years but finally Fear Zero will perform on July 30th at The Roxy for “The Summer Sessions” which is an acoustic battle of the bands where we will play some original songs and 2 cover songs from 1993. If you are interested, tickets are available for download by clicking http://www.fearzero.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/roxytickets.jpg

Print off as many as you like and give them to your friends and you will receive a free drink when you pay the $7 cover at the door and we will get a vote (judging is partly based on # of tickets brought in for each band.)

Hope we see you down there!

Fear Zero and Microsoft offer you a FREE download and…

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:57:23 +0000

even though the song is free, Microsoft is kicking us 50 cents per download so it is a win win situation! Please download the song at http://www.myspace.com/windows?homepage=fearzero and then let us know what you think.

If you like it, send the gift around to all your friends, it’ll help us pay back the bill for the studio time it took to record it lol!

We have a couple of shows coming up in the interior. We are heading back to play Villager’s Pub in Fruitvale on July 10, and then we play an outdoor benefit concert called Cars, Concerts and Causes in Trail BC at Gyro park starting at 6 pm with guests BlackLightProphet.

The Trail show is all ages and admission is by donation. Both bands will be donating a portion of their proceeds to the foundation as well.

For more information click http://www.fearzero.com/tour-2/.

Thanks everyone!

Fear Zero on the 8 o’clock cage match on CFOX!

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:36:06 +0000

Hey everyone, thanks for voting in the 1st part of the Seeds 2009 contest! YOU ROCK!

Now Fear Zero needs your votes one more time.

Between 8pm and 9pm Pacific time on Wednesday, June 3, they will play our song “Breathe Again” on CFOX and you can vote for Fear Zero (only during that time) by phone at 604-280-CFOX (2369) and by Text Message to 843369 (THEFOX). (A 25 cent charge will apply as usual to all text message votes).

Not in Vancouver? Go to http://www.cfox.com/ and click LISTEN LIVE!

Thanks so much for the support!

Fear Zero in Top 20 Seeds! Now we need your votes.

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 07:37:56 +0000

Please vote for Fear Zero. Go to http://seeds.cfox.com/ to sign up then hit home, scroll down and FZ is 4th on the left. Hit vote once a day everyday up to and including May 29.

Thanks all!

Fear Zero – Contest voting begins Friday May 22!

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:43:37 +0000

Hey everyone, we have entered a contest called Seeds here in Vancouver sponsored by a local radio station in town.

Please vote for us by signing up at www.seeds.cfox.com/fearzero. Add us as a friend and vote away on our music.

Voting starts on May 22 and runs until May 29. You can vote everyday up until May 29 so put it in your day planner.

Thanks to everyone that helps out, we really appreciate it!

Shooting rock videos

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:41:46 +0000

Hello again everyone!

Recently Fear Zero shot a couple of rock videos for release with our CD in the (hopefully) near future. I just wanted to talk about the experience, maybe destroy a few myths and let you know what it is really like.

We have shot 4 videos now bearing the Fear Zero name. If you are a fan you have only seen one of those so far and there is a reason. Shooting a video is a bit of an art. On top of trying to capture the essence of the song in the form of a storyline, you have to also capture the image that the band is trying to project. If you are doing the videos independently like we do, that can be a real challenge considering the fact that most videos you see on VH1/Muchmusic cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Two years ago we shot 2 videos for songs from our last CD “In Lights” for the songs “Breathe Again” and “Broken, Still Hoping.” The reason you have not viewed the second one is that it just did not turn out right. We spent thousands on it and the director just did not capture what we wanted so we had to scrap it. We did this video through a third party and trusted them with organizing it and getting it to look right. For this reason I recommend bands do as much as you can yourselves from storyline to location, get it right in your minds and it should turn out better than if you just trust someone that had nothing to do with the project.

Anyway, these last 2 videos we shot we did all on our own with help of course from friends that are close to the project. The footage we captured is a million times better and we have what we think will end up being 2 great vids.

Next time I will write about what a day on a video shoot is like since this is turning into a bit of a novel.

Thanks for reading and I will be back with another installment soon.