The Living Rockumentary

Whew.

Two long nights in a row at Rub Wrongways.

On Tuesday, Mark Mulcahy, Ken Maiuri, and an ailing Brian Marchese came in to the studio to put together one of Mark's songs. Starting from scratch, (Mark had a hastily recorded demo on a cassette in a tiny hand held recorder, which he held out and played for Ken and Brian), we put together a really cool little single. Drums, bass, electric piano, saxophone, melodica, crazy percussion and many voices. The recording session went from 6:00 PM to 1:00 AM. The song just needs to be mixed now.

On Wednesday, we had a fairly extensive Fawns practice for our upcoming New Year's show at The Center for the Performing Arts here in Northampton. We played everything we know. It was great to play electric guitar again in a band setting. It had been a while. I got a little silly.

That was followed immediately by Jason of the Bourgeois Heroes arriving. Jason and I set about recording some new vocal tracks and mixing all six of the songs from their upcoming EP. And that's some crazy mixing, man. I found out the limits of my computer by trying to add reverb to eight of the forty tracks on their song "Judy". The computer just wouldn't have it.

We eventually made mixes of all the songs by 1:30 AM and Jason took a copy home with him. I'm curious to see how they came out, since my ears were pretty fried by the end of the night and we were getting caught up on tiny little details. I hope they are good. If they are, we just need to get the stuff mastered and then it'll be done. Yee.

Unfortunately, Elise (of the Bourgeois Heroes) was unable to make it, so I didn't get to see her before they take off again for Texas in a couple of days. They'll be back maybe in March and we'll record a single or something. I don't know.