We Mic'd the Bathrooms at Shelter Island Sound

Good news! The songs have made significant progress since my last posting in mid December. I can't believe it's been that long ... time sure can fly. The holiday's ended up being a good time and it was always nice to spend time with my family since I don't get to see them too often. The new year rolled in and we solidified January 13th, 14th and 27th as the beginning session dates to record rhythm, electric guitars. We ended up recording at Shelter Island Sound on 27th street in Manhattan. In fact when Ross and I went to check out the studio - Moby was working in the control room listening down to some tracks. The studio was great. It has a very cool, intimate vibe and the old vintage gear is fantastic.

We made much progress on the 13th, and 14th. Steve Addabbo, the owner, gave us the run of the place as we went crazy setting up microphones in the hallways and bathrooms. I've got more pix to upload. Thanks Steve for making us feel very welcomed and allowing us to indulge in being ridiculously loud. We recorded all the foundational rhythm guitars for all songs but one. We came back on the 27th to finish the one song we never got to and then proceeded to work on some other overdub parts for the tune 'Mrs. Wallington' and 'End of the line.' Each day was packed with 10 hours of work and all in all the guitars came out quite excellent. I'm really happy with how they're sounding - very classic rock sounding. We spent a lot of time honing in on the tone of the electrics making sure we were keeping a consistent sound and creating a personality for the record. We didn't want to record guitars that a had modern rock sound. The songs are really coming along.. ;)

In other news we're starting to work with a graphic designer for the CD cover. We started out by sending over some examples of cover art from bands like The Clash, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and Tom Petty to give him an idea of the direction we're heading. Oh yea, we also decided to re-do the website. Version 1.0 is just not cutting it.

Thanks for stopping by...

-m