Tuesday night was recording night at my house so I threw in a couple of pizzas for the guys. Usually they show up at about 5:30 or 6:00 so at 6:30 I gave Dirk a call to find that he thought we were going to practice at his house. Well, how are you supposed to make a record if you don’t record?
After eating some great pepperoni pizza we sentenced Chris to the recording room to lay down his bass track to “Opening of the Doors.” Dirk (and his heartburn) and I were watching the PBS special WAR. Over the sounds of bombs we could hear Chris ranting and raving about the timing of Dirk’s Guitar track. Dirk unwilling to help and WAR calling for my attention: Chris was out of luck. After a while I made the decision to move on to a different song so we put down a rough track of “Inspiration.” After that, Dirk put down his guitar and Vocals on “She doesn’t even put up a fight.” And the night ended after Chris successfully recorded his banjo part on that same song. Overall, the night was a success.
Over and over and over. I’m not a damn machine! HAHA! Pepperoni doesn’t exactly oil my recording gears – just stokes the fire, if you know what I mean.
We laid down the basics of “Opening of the Doors” a while ago at my house but it seems that the timing is a little off on the intro so we need to re-record it all. But it’s not too big of a deal; just another small setback on the road to fame and fortune. We’ll just keep on truckin’.