wednesday evening ashby and i met up with the kids from long story short at workplay to see the new "capital recording artist" - aslyn. ashby and i only got to see about 5 songs, but they were all pretty impressive. the girls in long story short know alsyn and her management. we chatted with everyone for an hour or so and got to hang out for a while on alsyn's tour bus. plasma screens. damn. i want a tour bus for xmas.
i gave the girls a disc of photos from the photo session earlier in the month. later on that evening, probably around 11:30, we went to our friend josh cooper's house to load his studio kit for the session on thursday.
thursday evening ashby and i set up at instant karma studios to begin tracking drums for some new songs, some old songs, and for some re-recording of drum tracks that weren't recorded all that well last year.
friday we returned for an eight hour session and got quite a bit completed. between the two sessions, which combined probably added up to about 13-14 hours, we re-recorded the drums for "nanana", and "beautiful." we recorded the tracks for "lonely broom", "endless light", and did a quick demo for the newly penned, "hwy."
we spent a while working on a glitchy keyboard workstation and i somehow managed to play tight with the click having not played or recorded drums in exactly a year. i really have to stop doing this. it's too much pressure. actually, i should probably just get a drum kit. i haven't had one in 6 years. hmmm.
we are scheduled to go back this coming thursday and possibly over the weekend - to attempt completion of all the drums.
saturday was spent catching up on various things... including sleep. hung out with through the sparks after seeing john p. strom, who rocks quite hard for a rich attorney. his sense of humor is very evolved. daniel johnston materialized looking about 30 pounds heavier, mentioning something about jailtime. i didn't hear the entire conversation... i'll have to ask ashby about the details. ate humus with ashby and nick mimikakis.
i gave the girls a disc of photos from the photo session earlier in the month. later on that evening, probably around 11:30, we went to our friend josh cooper's house to load his studio kit for the session on thursday.
thursday evening ashby and i set up at instant karma studios to begin tracking drums for some new songs, some old songs, and for some re-recording of drum tracks that weren't recorded all that well last year.
friday we returned for an eight hour session and got quite a bit completed. between the two sessions, which combined probably added up to about 13-14 hours, we re-recorded the drums for "nanana", and "beautiful." we recorded the tracks for "lonely broom", "endless light", and did a quick demo for the newly penned, "hwy."
we spent a while working on a glitchy keyboard workstation and i somehow managed to play tight with the click having not played or recorded drums in exactly a year. i really have to stop doing this. it's too much pressure. actually, i should probably just get a drum kit. i haven't had one in 6 years. hmmm.
we are scheduled to go back this coming thursday and possibly over the weekend - to attempt completion of all the drums.
saturday was spent catching up on various things... including sleep. hung out with through the sparks after seeing john p. strom, who rocks quite hard for a rich attorney. his sense of humor is very evolved. daniel johnston materialized looking about 30 pounds heavier, mentioning something about jailtime. i didn't hear the entire conversation... i'll have to ask ashby about the details. ate humus with ashby and nick mimikakis.