Here’s a bit of history for you: before Prospect Mali got their start, Rob and Tanner were in a band all throughout their high school days, known as Grandma’s Pancakes. With a name that killer, you know we HAD to be good.

Okay, so maybe we weren’t, but we definitely knew how to have a good time despite lacking musical talent. Here’s a video that pretty much sums up the GP glory days. The other band members were our good friends Nic Gordon (vocals), Chad Allen (drums), and Lee Schultz (guitar). Most of the video was shot at a few dances we performed at for the Special Needs branch of our church. Our buddies there could really bust a move! We really miss playing for them, hopefully we can get another show soon.

Anyways, the video is a lot of fun, and we hope you enjoy seeing how dorky Rob and I were in high school.

Update: The video had some audio sync issues which have now been fixed. Also, the previous version had a few scenes omitted. Now, its there in its entirety. Oh yeah, baby baby.

If you’ve ever wondered what Prospect Mali sounds like live, but you’ve never been able to make it to a show, then today is your lucky day my friend.  We recently played a show put on by Davis Cable 17 (you can watch some of the concert on our videos page), and now we’re posting the soundboard recording for you to download for free.

Here’s the set list:

1. Something Deeper
2. Your Time is Out
3. Still Find You
4. Book Girl
5. She Can’t Fight the Radio
6. Strain
7. The Silence

The download is all 7 songs in mp3 format in a zip archive.  Download and enjoy!

Download Link

About the same time we wrapped up our first album, “Something Deeper,” we upgraded our entire home studio to a brand new system. Its not that our previous setup was too bad, but it really wasn’t a professional rig at all. Actually, here’s a picture to show you what we used to record the first album:

Notice the sweet blanket surrounding the table, used as a noise filter for the ridiculously loud self-built computer.  Those computer monitors cost me $5 each at the DI, and pretty much everything else is a hand-me-down from the Nixon Administration.

Anyways, since those good old days of recording on equipment barely able to hang on to dear life, we’ve plunged head first into a Pro Tools setup that is wicked awesome but also has taken a while to get used to.  I’m finally getting the hang of it though, and we’ve started work on a second EP.  I know for sure that “Strain,” a song originally slated for our debut album that got cut at the last minute, will be on the new album.  We’re still writing and experimenting, but so far its been a lot of fun and it hasn’t made us go deaf.

By the way, congratulations to Rob and his wife, they just had their first kid last week, a healthy baby boy!  We’re excited because we’ve been needing lead guitarist.

In the wake of our new site, I thought it might be interesting to see how prospectmali.com has evolved over the years.  Basically there have now been 4 iterations of the site.  Let’s start from way back when in 2006.

Here she is, version 1 in all her glory.  Do you like the ginormous font that says Prospect Mali News?  That way you can tell its the news page.

Also, you can see in the lower right corner an ad for bass player wanted.  That never really worked out for us.  We did have a few applicants, including a guy living in Ohio and one living in Wisconsin.  It was hard to get together for practice.

On to version 2.

You can see the original album art we had for our debut album here. The rest of the site was based off of that, which is why the website needed to go under a mini-makeover in version 3.  My favorite part of the website was the store link, since we didn’t have a store nor anything to sell at the time.  Smooth.

And finally version 3.  Ah yes, the website of the CD launch.  Its basically the same as version 2 but with the album artwork integrated.  The idea was okay (at least I thought), but the execution was, well, a tad off.

Things didn’t work right or look quite right at times.  Mostly, because I didn’t (and still) don’t know how the heck to code a website.  I try to be such a nerd, but all the true nerds of the world would have been so disappointed in me.

And now, we’ve arrived at version 4.  I really hope this thing works as it should, because it seems we finally got it right.  Any suggestions for version 5?

Hey Everyone! We just gave the site a HUGE makeover and hope it now brings the best possible Prospect Mali experience to everyone.

Feel free to register and make comments, communicate with the band, and each other! More news coming soon, so stay tuned.

-Tanner

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on a great show coming up.  We’re going to be performing at Taylorsville Dayzz, an annual festival in Taylorsville, UT.  It should be an absolute blast!  We’ll be playing for about an hour starting at 7:45 sharp.  Hope to see you there!

Event: Taylorsville Dayzz
Location: Valley Regional Park, 5100 S. 2700 W. Taylorsville, UT
Description: Prospect Mali will perform their full set list at the Taylorsville Dayzz festival. It will be an AWESOME show!
Start Time: 7:45
Date: 06.28.2008