Sax and Bone #148

...and the horns are mostly done.

I'm wary of swearing on my blog, mostly in case I get censored, but holy fuck that was good! It was astonishing to see two masters of their respective tools coming together so quickly. We had Bardy and Justin get to work on the "Government Song" and they just flew into it. With some brief discussions and maybe two run-throughs of the song, they had the whole thing. They agreed on some riffs and just got the hell into it. They locked in together like I've never seen, and this is two guys who had never met before. They even locked in on some stuff that I could swear they didn't even discuss -- the professionalism was through the roof!

It bodes well. They had good ideas and just did their thing wonderfully. So there's horns on "Gov't Song", "Yesterday's Growing", "DESYL" ... and "Happy Man", which some plain sax as well. Justin did some soloing on "Happy Man", then just now he did "Across the Park", which Christian describes wonderfully:

"Imagine you're the lone saxophone dude in a park, playing along while someone's getting murdered somewhere else in the park; the sax dude knows they're getting murdered and keeps playing..."

And right now, we're getting some sax for "End Days" as well. It's like we've given the guys a picture with some light colouring and they've just added a few new colours to completely change the colour-scheme. Suddenly the album is looking much more fleshed-out, and we have some elements which will tie it all together in terms of sound. Prior to this point, I would say the drums 'n' bass were what tied it all together, but that ain't saying much, since just about every album is filled with drums 'n' bass.

And I think I'll conclude now with a sigh. It's a sigh of exhaustion -- I can't explain how exhausting this process can get, even when you're doing nothing -- and it's a sigh of exhilaration. Juicy Mountain is just exciting, which is one of its greatest strengths, and also what attracts me to it so much. I have this sense of doing something original, unique ... something that's never been done before. Maybe it won't take off, or capture the imagination of the population en masse, as I really hope it will (and, for that matter, sort of can't see why it wouldn't), but who cares? I think that, no matter what happens, this album will be something that I can always look back on as something special that I was a part of ... something that no one else has done. And I wouldn't have such a strong feeling if it weren't for the sax and 'bone...

keeponrockin
Tom Hauville
Juicy Mountain Bass Monster