With Five Star Crush I started a weekend of work at KC’s West End Studio last night. We’ve been working super hard to prepare, and it paid off; six hours, four songs of drums/bass/keys, with guitars and vocals coming later today and mixing on Sunday afternoon. The results should be in by next weekend’s Saturday show in Lincoln (Aug. 12 – R,CC! CD release!). Can’t wait for you guys to hear it, especially those of you who have seen us live but in bad sound situations.
I didn’t feel nervous or weird about being in a pro recording studio for the first time. But last night I dreamt all about it – that I slept in the control room, and the studio was also a school, and a maintenance guy was outside cutting grass really fast, and how would I find anything to eat or get a shower, the band is coming over at noon to work and I’m far away from my place. And “California Blues” was stuck in my head all night while I was dreaming. So maybe it got to me deeper than I realized.
We’ve slayed dragons so far, so there’s every reason to think the finished songs will knock your socks off.
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Because of this, beats for SR’s It’s A Trap have been at a standstill for about a week.
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I’m playing a set of echoes songs Thursday night in KC, Aug. 10, 700 E 110th St. at KCSPUCC (i.e. work) outside on the patio. 7 p.m. – I’m opening for Cashmore. It will be fun, you should totes come down. The Garden State Song, “Coast & Plains,” “While I Was Moving About Flyover Country,” from Ventura and old-skool “SOS” will all happen certainly. Beyond that, I’ll be picking from a big big list.
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Been listening to weird stuff lately, the war and my own professional/spiritual striving has wrenched me through a lot. Car repair. Etc. Boom Bip, Chariots (America, North), Hail to the Thief, Gomez b-sides, Bike, and then something like Be as an act of hope.
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It’s been a while since we had a release at MFR, but there’s so much going on – we’ll have a new Furious Instance from R,CC!’s She Beeps very very soon, and once Five Star Crush is out of recording mode I’ll have Sally M/S Ride together pretty quickly. The murder ballads that Cory and I have done for LPR should be coming up in a month or so too. -h
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Update – we finished recording Sunday evening, and got “Collaborate” mixed but not the other tracks. We’ll finish that Thursday. I hope we can do a quick run through my mastering suite on Friday morning and burn some copies for the show in Lincoln on Saturday night (Chatterbox, 6-9 pm all ages with Robot Creep Closer! for their CD release!).
Sounds hardcore. Better than I thought it could. Now we’ll have to figure out how to live up to it live! -h