Hello everyone,
I'm sitting here at 9pm on the dot during our first day of recording. We loaded in at 10am to set up and are getting sounds and things mic'd. I'm sure Terry's all excited to fill you in on all of the technical gear, so i'd best leave that to him.
It's now Day 2...sorry I got distracted....
It's great to be recording ag...
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Hello everyone,
I'm sitting here at 9pm on the dot during our first day of recording. We loaded in at 10am to set up and are getting sounds and things mic'd. I'm sure Terry's all excited to fill you in on all of the technical gear, so i'd best leave that to him.
It's now Day 2...sorry I got distracted....
It's great to be recording again with our old friend and former producer, John Morand, with Bryan Hoffa in the engineer's seat, at Sound Of Music Studios, here in Richmond. John and Bryan helmed the Echo Echo and Indian Summer albums. So right now, last i checked, which was about an hour ago, we have about 22 songs written with about another 7 that need to be completed in the next week or so. Those would be up to me i guess to complete, as the lryics and melodies are not what I would call discernible. The Unmagnificent 7. It is tricky to focus on finishing songs when you start recording others, just because there's no time to write; there is a few hours in the morning and a few hours at night. So the plan is: write from 7-9am, Studio from 10am-8pm, write from 8-9:30pm and then eat and fall asleep.
If the Unmag 7 don't get finished it's not the end of the world, we have 22 great songs to choose from, but i want to finish them. Sometimes really good stuff pops out when in the studio. Life Less Ordinary came about in-studio. What are some others? Terry said What About Everything, but that was pretty done before we hit the studio...I know Troubles was a work in progress, and recall it was originally about 4 minutes longer than it is now (which is still pretty long) and had a 90-second cello thing out front, but we snipped it cuz it was self-indulgent. I remember Shine was kind of in-studio. There are others but i don't have them in front of me and can't think of them.
It's been hot in-studio with the extreme external temps, so i've dusted off my shorts, which i'm not prone to wear. I pulled the pair out i had used years ago the week we set up our first Endless Summer Luau...cutting bamboo, making a beach in front of the stage...I put my cell phone in it's pocket and fished it out later in the day and it was covered in fine-white sand. Sand does not wash out of pockets, you have to dump it out.
There is a lot of work to do, so I best go do it. Be on the lookout for daily blogs of our Studio progress.
Barry
