november twentieth, two thousand-nine
today has started off with a bang! bang! bang!
last night we all but got a final pass through a song i'm calling "coattails." this morning when we came in, master engineer Phantom Bedford had done a little editing. really sloppy editing, according to him, but luckily for us it made for a really incredible zeppelin-esque* turnaround. it really got our blood pumping. we all just looked around and went "how did that happen?"
*i don't very often compare things to led zeppelin, what i really mean to say is that our drum mistake that turned out to be awesome has the same surprise factor as many of zep's drum dynamics do. don't think we're trying to compete or kiss our own asses too much.
i once saw a studio documentary on ryan adams' record "jacksonville city nights" entitled "september." in one of the scenes, the bass player was complaining that ryan wouldn't let her re-track some part she thought wasn't good enough, because he wanted to retain the good vibe that came across even in her error. his words, if i recall correctly, were "you can't pay for mistakes like that." this morning i couldn't help but be reminded of that after an apparent error became one of the most encouraging moments of the recording process so far.
everyones good and juiced up on coffee and we're currently doing the drums for "talk."
today is gonna be a very productive day i can feel it. mainly cause we're out of beer... for now.
lots to do, but we're gonna make it happen.
--TO DO LIST--
finish tracking bass on "talk" (he's doing that now)
drums and bass for the following:
"throw you away"
"generation of the broken home"
"sashay"
"schoolboy"
think i'm gonna break for now. get back to work. i'll try and write you again today. keep listening, this is gonna be so awesome.
and send your friends here. gotta get as many people involved as possible. thanks for sticking around,
KB
p.s. this is my game face...
see you soon
each blog entry gets me more and more pumped. keep it up man!
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