THURSDAY UPDATE
Let's see...
We think it'll take one more session to finish the House of Blondes (with Microdot bassist/singer Mike Ingenthron) track "The Excitement," which has been exciting. We recut all of the guitars and did some major surgery on the arrangement, and now there's just some tweaking and twisting, poking and prodding to do before puttin' a ribbon on it. This song features the first (intentional) recording of the hallway fan shutting down... see if you can catch it in the mix. Next weekend we'll being starting some new tracks with the band and we'll let you know how it goes.
We'll be remixing 2 songs from the latest Darvocets record prior to its release on vinyl (the CD version sold like hotcakes during their last tour). Mastering for vinyl will be done by George at Skyway. We also anxiously await our copies of the Brainwashed Youth vinyl (should get them tonight) - also recorded at Smoke and Mirrors and mastered by George.
The latest cover to start undergoing the S&M decontruction treatment is "Us and Them" from Dark Side of the Moon, a good old fashioned protest song. As Roger Waters says, the whole record hinges on the question, how do we deal with the fundamental question of Us and Them?
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When was the last time You acted violently, were You in the right?
Tom Petty show at Music Midtown (almost got violent), jackass pushed my sister while rudely worming his way through the tightly packed crowd, I almost pounded him, Jackson got in between us. Yes, I was in the right.
Perhaps we should answer those questions for insertion into this track.
We've started asking them already and recording the responses...
I'm trying to remember the last time I acted violently, and I honestly can't.
If a Robut acts violently in the woods while everybody is inside listening to Dark Side, can anybody hear him quit the band?
The last time I acted violently was when I read the words "S&M deconstruction" out of context just now. And Sweet Jesus, was I in the right.
The Excitement session was bizarre -- from the fan recording (and the consequent flare-up with other building residents) to recutting the same guitar line on 4 consecutive sessions to the one jittery session where the arrangement actually moved backwards, and ended with a blotto George Vitray stumbling into the studio at 1 am and took the drums out of a key section (an inspired edit which remains in the latest mix).
All the while, I'm spouting drunken metaphors about capturing the sound of the earth's rotation and building houses out of live tigers. I'm shooting for craziest Smoke and Mirrors customer--what's my competition like?
Come on Chrispy, my personal interpretation of this question is to include any violent thoughts as well as actual instances of physically acting out.
Jackson erasing a keeper track accidentally perhaps? spilled beer on the console? Too many hip hop entourage in your humble control room barking commands at you? Scratchy connection you can't find the source of while in a session? Being told to hand out keys to everybody on the floor because you were the only one around at the time? Not getting more reverb when you clearly needed it and requested it?
You gotta be close to lashing out by now. Jackson, get the machine queued up to record...
Mike- we don't have many crazy clients because normally we screen them, you slipped in the back via George, and we've kinda just tried to placate you in the hopes that you don't hurt anyone with your galss and tigers.
Chris reacts violently when given anything but budweiser...
Do Not Attempt To Feed The Engineer!
If violent thoughts count, you might want to stock up on tape.
Hey, did you cut out my slide guitar solo on Glow Brighter?
Fuckers.
DCC
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