Studio Time

This Saturday Pistolero went in to the studio. Corey said he'd hooked up with a guy who had a studio in his basement and would record us for cheap. I have been to these type of 'studios' before and it usually means an unfinished basement with a few mics and a busted ass analog 8 track. I was wrong wrong wrong.
We pulled into the driveway of the spot and the house looks very normal, typical 3/2 ranch in the burbs. But then we enter. Andy, the owner, has his entire house wired. Music plays in every room of the house from a central entertainment unit. In addition to electrical outlets in the wall there are XLR plugs so you can run a guitar/mic from any room. Then there is the basement. He's set up a living room next to the control room so you can layabout while your not recording (this is very important because 'recording' translates to waiting more often than not). Paintings on the wall, subdued lighting, comfy chairs, and Andy hasn't even opened for business yet.
We lucked up in meeting this guy. He plans to launch this spring or summer but wants to have a finished product or 2 when he does . Hence our luck. We're getting a $250 an hour studio for whatever we can scrape together for his time. He just wants to make a finished product to have as an example.
We did 5 songs this weekend (live tracks that need vox and some dubs) and 2 more rhythm tracks. All and all we'll spend close to a week at EVOKE Studio to put together a full length release.
Here's a pic of Todd looking most gay...

Pretty Things

The band I play in is notorious for having shitty equipment. It has always been this way and I was coming to believe that I would always play through a second hand movie theatre speaker whilst my band mates bang away on Peavy combos with one broken channel.
It was not to be.....


This is one of the speaker cabinets that Tom and I built. It's stain grade. That's what they call really nice wood. I should say that I was mainly a helper on this project and that Tom did most of the work. I just wanted a new cabinet that would be loud...very loud: I got a beautiful piece of furniture that doesn't belong in our filthy practice space. One day it will be in my house with a doily and a houseplant on top of it.

My new friend Scooter

I went and Picked up the pig this morning.
For the Pig Roast.
I bought him from a man named Howard. This is Howard and Scooter.
Howard struck me as the kind of man who has a pig farm. Granted I was buying a pig from him, but if I had met him in a bar I would have guessed that he raised pigs. I wanted to kill the pig myself but Howard had already dispatched the swine when we got there. He offered me the lungs and liver, I let him keep those pieces for himself.
It should take about 8-10 hours to cook Scooter tonight. I'll post more pics of what he looks like in the process.

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