This past weekend was a whirlwind of productivity! My buddy Phil Taylor (from Future Leaders of the World/Machina) was going to be around upstate NY for a few weeks. I asked if he’d be up for lending his vocals to a song for my upcoming CD. I thought he’d sound great on “Status Quo”, so I sent him the tune and he dug it. We spent the weekend recording and working on a couple new…
For a couple weeks now at least, my iPhone has been reporting “Zero KB” free space. At first I thought I’d just filled the sucker up, but then after removing a few unused apps, some old Strong Bad Email podcasts, and a few albums, and still seeing “Zero KB”, I realized something was amiss. For a moment after deleting each of those things, I did see some free space return, but then after changing “tabs”…
Got bass done on Without You last night, after much frustration with Pro Tools. To start out, I went to grab the bass track from my demo session, as I’ve been doing, to import it into the new session as a guide to play along with so I would know how I wanted the part to go. I’d changed the tempo from the demos to the final versions in most of the other songs, but…
Got bass done on “Status Quo” last night. That’s 8 bass tracks done now. With any luck I’ll get the other two done this week. I’d always “heard” and expected to have a guitar solo in this song, so I left a “space” in the song for one all along while demoing it. I spent a good 30 minutes last night trying to come up with a solo. This was always going to be the…
