This is quite exciting. I’ve now got all but two songs’ drum tracks recorded for the new album. I went back down to Easter Island Studios in Coxsackie, NY (what a great town name!) on Sunday. Rick Little (the drummer for Split 2nd Alibi) played on “Drive Me”, “Status Quo”, and “Without You”. Chris Fisher (from Conehead Buddha and Brian Kaplan Band) pulled double duty, both engineering the session and also playing drums on “Sometimes”. …
Over the weekend I was able to get a bass guitar part tracked for “Fish in the Sea”. I also spent a little more time setting up mixes for each song I have begun so far, so the drums sound decent now, at least for working with them as I continue on this mad journey. I’ve been trying to decide what sort of drum sound I want on this album, so I’ve been listening to…
I finally got a chance last night to go through the drum sessions from NYC the other week and give them a listen. When we were at the studio, we kept between 3 and 6 takes for each song. For some songs, we tried a couple different tempos, and for others, Mike or Tom played a section here or there slightly differently, and I didn’t want to spend the time figuring out which version was…
On Sunday, I was down in Manhattan at Threshold Studios tracking drums with Mike Maenza and Tom Sposato. Between them, we got 5 more songs’ drum parts recorded. So that takes the tally up to 6 songs done now on drums: half way there! Threshold is the studio where The X’s (Maenza’s old band) recorded their (awesome) album a couple years back. Random tangent: For what it’s worth, I always dug Fuel and Brett’s voice…
