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Recording Day #17

You may think we’re getting a bit lazy with the reportage. I can offer a couple of excuses. We can’t report on the first song played on the car radio each morning anymore because the subscription to satellite radio has abruptly come to an end. So theres now a whole bunch of silence in the car – which is actually rather nice before pummelling ourselves with constant noise each day.

The other thing is that its pretty busy in here. Producifer John’s hillbilly alter-ego, lets call him Hank, has decided that the most effective way to get good takes out of us is to hold up a knife to us while we’re playing. Here he is threatening Paul while he plays the Omnichord. Its quite effective. We are bringing out the worst in Hank. He pulled out some line dancing and Coors lite on us too. Frightening.
SA

Recording Day #15 – Couldn’t think of a caption for this so we welcome you to do so.

Recording Day #14.
It’s time for today’s update and I’m still thinking about how fascinating yesterday was and how many extraordinary things happened. But we must move on…
Today we got to sit back and watch the incredible Bobby Sparks throw some keyboard wizardry at a few of our tunes.
He has lent his analog synth genius to many musical luminaries (Prince!) and it was awesome to watch him pulling spacey sounds out of his intimidating toy collection… I bet that’s the first time anyone has used the phrase ‘Intimidating toy collection’… can i get a verification please?

Recording Day #11
First song on the car stereo: If Nobody Moves, Nobody Will Get Hurt by The Paper Chase.
Howdy. Steph and Clint’s work is just about done, which means we’ll be moving onto guitars and stuff… now we’re about to call it a day and drive over to the Mesquite Rodeo… Um, yeeha. More on this.
PD

DRUMS.
I sit here in the midst of Album 6 listening to the rough, rough mixes with some nice callouses on my hands from a solid 10 days of tracking.
We spend months together writing these pieces of music… sometimes fiercely arguing, sometimes intently discussing, sometimes hating, sometimes loving but mostly procrastinating. Not knowing whether you’ve made the right decision or not. Congleton just said drums sound great. Phew. Then you start thinking about playing them live… Rhythm section aren’t ready to deal with that yet.
Oh I broke my first stick today.
CH

Day #8
First song on the car radio: Cortez The Killer, Neil Young….probably an omen. A strangely dark and stormy day in Dallas today. A little eerie and a lot of lightning.