Making an Album - Entry #006

Being up at 3:28am has its advantages. It's just ... I'm not sure what they are. In fact, bugger that; there are none, unless you happen to be a forest-dwelling nocturnal predator, and even then it's a bit of a struggle, since your best bet at scoring some food is by preying on other forest-dwelling nocturnal predators...

Juicy Mountain (www.juicymountain.com) are recording an album. We only sort of just started, with the actual start being something like 9 hours ago or 9 days ago -- somewhere in between those two. So today we recorded the drums and bass for "Across the Park" (credited on the ABC Illawarra site as "Cross the Park"). Not bad, although the reason I'm still up at 3:32am is because Christian and Jono are busy doing more drum-type stuff. I asked why Christian is playing some drums -- i.e. to what purpose this is -- and he answered, somewhat mysteriously, that it was really secret, conspiratorial stuff, that I should forget about it anyway and, besides, I'm asleep and just dreaming this...

Now, I had a slight Gollum today. I call it a "Gollum" because I got very precioussssss with my basslines. After a jot of recording, the guys started wanting me to do it a slightly different way, which is quite annoying when you've been playing a song a certain way for nearly six months. But what is infinitely more annoying is the fact that they were right, and the song (or at least, the bass department) is much better off because of it. Well, live and learn. My precioussss...

Tom (Monster) Hauville
Juicy Mountain Bass Monster