My, how the time has gotten away from my blogging. I feel like my writing on these things isn’t quite up to par, but I’d rather it be lackluster and out of my head, rather than sitting upstairs fermenting for years, driving me crazy.
These three days kind of blazed by — we got a lot done, but I’ll need to revisit my notes to remember exactly what we finished and when. My memories are a haze of beer and fire.
On Monday, we did an alternate take of “The Lost Boys” with acoustic guitar instead of electric. Thor tried various drum parts before settling on a simple kick and snare pattern, with no cymbals. The rest of the night was spent watching this video:
Tuesday night, our pal Margaret come out to hang with us, and she took some scandalous photos. The band tried several takes of “Rooks” before calling it a night, thinking they would try it again the next day. The next morning the band decided that the previous night’s takes were actually perfect, they had just been too wiped out to embrace their beauty or something. I dunno, I was making coffee and watching Star Wars: Episode II while they discussed it.
The rest of Wednesday was spent trying some alternate electric guitar and bass sounds for “Rooks”. We switched between Jonathan’s main Princeton amp and his old one, which he sold to the studio a while ago. We tried some takes with the amp in the iso booth before moving it out into the large playing room, where I recorded two close amp mics (a Sony C48 and a Beyer M26), as well as an AKG C414 for room ambience.
We called a halt for the day at 6:00 PM so that the band could pack up and head to Austin for tonight’s show at UT. Normally I would be in tow to run sound, but I haven’t seen my wife in 10 days, so. . .
We’ll resume Friday night around 7:00 PM or so. In the meantime, I’m going to get on the phone with this guy from RMG and talk about exciting things like the chemical makeup of their tape and why it isn’t holding onto the oxide. Poo poo.