Tick Tock Andre’s a Clock
With our usual practice skewed by work schedules, we moved things up to Studio B in SF and tried to make the most of it.
Friday nite started off with an impromptu acoustic set in the studio lounge featuring the skeleton of a new chord progression that appeared in between songs on Thursday. We were all sporting axes and the presence of special guests Saint Ethan, and CB411 set the tone for a rockin’ evening. A couple hours and a few cold ones later, we had a new song structure worked out!
Saturday Andre and I moved things into the actual studio in an attempt to bring some of the long running projects back into focus. We started out tracking drums for Joséphine, and after one or two warm up takes, Andre nailed it! I had him do a couple more takes just for fun, and it got better with each one! No editing needed! Needless to say, I’m quite happy.
Eric pumped the rough mix into the lounge for peer review.
I thought folks would like it.
I don’t think any of us expected that we would need a dustpan to pick the jaws up off the floor.
With just a few minutes left before the studio turned into a pumpkin, we decided to take a shot at bringing Clarity back from the ashes… the performances were good, but both Dre and I agreed that it was missing something, and we should try again on Sunday.
Cut to Sunday. With Dre was rested, ready and psyched we cut some excellent drum takes that again will require no editing, and it looks like we’ve got some momentum on these two tunes.
Next on the list – Drums for Never Be The Same.
