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Greenhouse Studios
Well we're back at it! Hunkering down in Greenhouse studios to record our third(!) CD. Ringo did his best Joey Kramer and nailed 11 drum tracks in just a day and a half! ...and with the incomparable talents of Kevin Kane on-board we were able to get killer "near complete" rhythm guitar and bass tracks done in the first three sessions!
More updates to come...
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Incredibly, we finished tracking ...in just 8 days! And it's sounding sooo good to our bleeding ears..... ahhh.... Ryen Frogget engineer/ProTools/funnyman-extrodanaire helmed the console while Kevin orchestrated the guitar histrionics. We sang, yelled, screamed, whimpered from bleeding fingers and generally made a racket in the un-partitioned Studio #4 room. A disco ball and incense kept the "I Was Made For Loving You" vibe "Alive"
.... Paul Myers dropped by on Monday eve for some impromptu harmonizing and guitar "shredding." Kevin and Paul introduced some "Pet Sounds" elements with their "chorus-of-angels" falsetto parts.... stay tuned!
Damn fine!
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An early start to more guitars...fingers numbed to bloody little nubs. Big thanks to Dave Genn for the use of some of his guitar pedals that produced some fine noize in the proceedings and for the use of his Wurlitzer that Kevin put to work with a "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" brilliance. Vic reached to his the bottom of his, er, soul... to belt/scream/torture a raucous vocal to our newest track "Love & All It Kills." (Fortunately the last vocal required as his pipes were exhausted by this point!) Enter Tyson a.k.a. Magus Marv Polydor who put inspiration to "tape" with 7 songs in just 5 hours! (What tone & taste, monsieur!)
Somewhere along the way, rumour has it, Marv & Vic attempted to make a pot of coffee in the studio-size industrial coffee maker creating some hilarity that made the 3 Stooges look like Bill Gates & 2 other really smart guys....(well, one other if you do the math!)
Shout-outs to our studio assistants, Travis, Chris & Evan!
Next installment should be mixing time! |
A studio diary wouldn't be complete without mentioning:
A big thanks to Pete Bourne who brought his Ayotte drums and tech-ing expertise to the party.
As always, Ringo & Marv kept the party rolling! A number of beverages were imbibed while Ringo held his title as "band cheering section." (...threatening Steve with physical harm unless he gets a Les Paul / Marshall set-up!...)
Screamin' Jonny Leamon, our recently-departed bass player, bar-keep and all-round good guy dropped by with more beverages & Newfoundland wit in tact.
Wow! The stats are in and we tracked and mixed an entire album (12 tracks) in just 14 days! A fun, productive process...the most fun we've had in the studio yet. And the sounds..... the sounds!
Vic's brother Adam Gailiunas dropped in from Portland to add a pick slide Slash would be proud of. (Check out his group with Kris Deelane, Sweetjuice).
The artwork is well on the way. Big thanks to Heather Hollingdale for the fab shots! (Making us look like real-to-goodness rock'n'roll stars is no mean feat and she rose to the occasion with stellar results!)
Big, big thanks again to "the kids from Deliverance"
- Kevin Kane on production, additional instrumentation, rock trivia, obscure pop references & Daltry screams.
- Ryen Froggat on engineering, mixing, quips, scarves, bad wine & the joys of Subway Veggie Delights.
Next: send the album off to mastering for the finishing touches.
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