Holy crap that was quick! #085

Sometimes you can just get it done in a timely manner. Starting on Monday, we were going to record three songs with an option for a fourth. Well, it's Tuesday evening and all four are done-ish (no, not Danish, although I am hungry). More accurately, the drums are somewhat done, the bass are all but done -- just a little bit of colour I want to add to "Got Issues" -- and the keys are being done now.

So in barely any time at all, we have "Got Issues", "Happy Man", "End Days" and "Don't Even Say Ya Livin" (DESYL) somewhat done. As I type this, Steve is laying some keys down on DESYL. He's already done Issues. Bones is going to do some stuff too, although at the moment he has been called away due to a goat who is possibly birthing.

It's inspiring. I want to push for another song, bringing the album to a grand total of ten songs, but I have to remind myself that recording is the easy part, and the editing and mixing will take a bit of time, so it will have to be nine songs and an album of maybe 45 minutes' play time. That's cool, most bands (especially in Australia) only get a 45 minute set in any case. You never know, we might get one more song in, but it won't be a major track or anything -- I'm not saying what it is just yet, and only partially because we haven't decided on one yet.

For the record, I'm happier with these recent songs, at least in terms of the bass. Things have flowed nicely, and I was afforded a bit more freedom in laying down my bass tracks (owing in part to the fact that less people were in the room when recording this time around). I think these tracks are a bit more sublime, they flow much more freely, and I enjoyed the process that much more this week as opposed to last week.

So ... it's going well. Very soon, we'll have other instruments brought in: more guitar fun from Michael, plus some other dudes who I'll introduce when they get some screen-time*. In the meantime,

keeponrockin

Tom Hauville
Juicy Mountain Bass Monster

* The last 2 days have seen excessive use of the filmmaking metaphor. Steve has been referring to someone laying down their tracks as their "close-ups". I usually respond with something like "didn't you read the call-sheet?"