Slow it Down -- Finally / Stars of Mendicino

Long time no post. I've been rather lax at keeping this Blog up to date, (Understatement of the Year), however, there wasn't much going on on the recording front. After recording all of the tracks for 'Slow it Down', we went into hibernation mode, trying to get a mix of the song that we were all happy with. Thanks to the workman like efforts of knob-tweaker extrodinaire, Brian - we can finally move on. Of course, I'm not sure Brian will ever want to hear this tune again. :-)

Work on the next song for the yet-to-be-officially-named Digger Phelps recording project has begun. Last evening, two acoustic guitar tracks, a "scratch" vocal and an upright bass track were recorded for the next tune, 'Stars of Mendicino'. It's already starting to sound quite nice... One of the things we have been discussing is seperating this recording into two "sides" - one side with the straight ahead rockers and the other with the mellower (for lack of a better word) stuff - giving the record two completely different feels. As you can see, the approach to 'Mendicino' is much different than the tunes we have recorded previously. Our idea was to build this song starting with the acoustic guitar - adding drums and percussion at the end. Clint will then be able to gauge his playing based on the overall feel of the song - rather than trying to guess at his dynamics before everything is in place.

It felt really good to get back to working on a new tune for the record. We took way too long and Brian did way too many mixes of 'Slow it Down' for the Main Man Compilation --- but we've all finally agreed that it is as good as it can be, and it was finally time to move along.

Beer recently seen around the studio -- Amstel Light, Yeungling Lager, Molson Canadian Light, Michelob Ultra, Schaefer tall boys and Miller Lite