DAY SEVEN to TEN: drumming, editing, brushing teeth & beginning bass.

We've been tirelessly editing drums. Still not 100% done but we started tracking bass today.
In two weeks we have a cool dude named PJ coming down from Ottawa to try-out for our band. We have good feelings about him and he's a really great drummer.
Check out these photos of the last couple days.

Peace

andrew

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Andrew Tracking Drums

Ed The Edit Master

Steve & Andrew after a late night of editing

Steve Tracking Bass

DAY FIVE/SIX: Drums Complete!!!

I'm very proud to announce that drums are done. Last night we topped off the cake by finishing "I Do Not Think So", and "It Must Be For Change".

Next step: drum editing. So far we've finished editing four songs out of fifteen.

We're going to take a break from blogging until we start tracking bass. We'll let you know in about a week.

PEACE & ELBOW GREASE!

andrew

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DAY FOUR: Blood Blisters

hahaaaa... now it's just turning into a joke, isn't it?

More drumming! It seriously sounds great, it's just a whole lotta work that I wasn't expecting.
Tonight we worked on "What Love Is", "Pale Green", "Something Real" & our new song, "The Mediator". We also worked on getting me some pretty nasty blood blisters on my hands. Ed says, "Man, it's from playing so hard and so well", and I say, "No, it's just from holding the sticks wrong". It's really too bad Steve wasn't there because he'd probably be all like, "Let me put some DQ dipped cone on those aching blood blisters of yours, Andrew".

"The Mediator" is a cross between RHCP & maybe a bit of "That Striped Dress" kind of Maroon 5ish feel. It's about an abusive father and talks about how things like that sometimes go unnoticed and there is no one to mediate the fights. But ya, you'll have to hear for yourselves.

Tomorrow & Friday we are working on more drums - should probably be done by next Monday, the 25th.

See you soon - sorry, no pictures tonight.
PEACE

andrew

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DAY TWO/THREE: Tracking Drums

Wow! For anyone who has ever recorded drums before you can feel my pain right now. I am so tired from playing drums over and over and over and over and over again. IT SOUNDS GREAT....I'm just damn tired.

So we've recorded about seven songs worth of drums out of sixteen. Our good buddy Luther Mallory from Crush Luther came by today to help with some production and everything is running very smoothly. We changed "What Now" a little bit so I'm excited for everyone to hear that. We also have some really cool demos of "Pale Green" going that we are very excited about.
Last week I demoed our new song "The Mediator" and everyone in the band is loving it. When we start tracking bass I think I'm going to ask our good friend Bodan Mulholland to play bass on that tune. I can't wait until the record comes out so all of you can enjoy the new tune.
All and all everything is sounding and coming along fabulously! Drums are definately going to take longer than expected but that's okay - as long as we don't rush anything I'm happy. Here are some new pics for all to ogle at...

(until next time) PEACE OUT BIATCHES

andrew

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Darrin Pfeiffer is GOD!!!!

Good Afternoon.
Today after work I took a trip into Toronto. I met-up with a kind fellow by the name of Darrin. He manages a band of great musicians and great friends called, Crush Luther. You may also know him as an on-air personality on Edge 102.1. Long story short, this dude has more cymbals that you can shake a stick at and he's letting us borrow a few for our record. Drums are going to sound amazing!

We're starting drums on Saturday. Ed's coming over to the studio early and we are going to rock it hard-core!!! I don't know what Steve is doing because he's working right now at DQ and I can't get a hold of him.
On Sunday, Luther is going to come over to help me with drums. He's been buggin me for ever because he's totally stoked to help out with some producing, primarily on That Striped Dress. I like him.

Anywho, we'll have more pics and updates soon... my dad ordered Chinease so I have to go eat.

PEACE & SMELLY CHEESE,
Andrew
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Ed/Steve Day 1: Demoing/Bed Tracking

they are good

DAY ONE: Bed Tracks

Hello all,so last night was our first official day of recording for the album. We got a lot done and we are very proud of ourselves.
We started the bed tracks of songs, preparing for drums. I think we got about 9 or 10 songs in the bag.
Next week we get cymbals to use for drums because mine suck....alot! Brent Mills from Crush Luther is hooking us up with some cymbals from their Manager's collection. Should be pretty sweet.
We're recording a few older tunes that havn't been played in a while so we are going to call on a good buddy of ours, Dan Mulholland, to demo a few of those songs with us just so we can get a better feel and approach when recording.
All and all, everything is good. I friggin wish my studio was bigger though... we friggin have cables everywhere, mics hanging anywhere imaginable, drums, guitars, amps, bongos, paper lying everywhere - I think I need a maid.

PEACE & ELBOW GREASE
andrew
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Wooo Recording!

Hello there friends,
So we are starting up recording which is definitely one of the greatest experiences with doing music - getting to experiment and create some amazing sounds, cool licks, intense vocal harmonies - all very much fun. We have also been given a very sweet guitar/bass amp to use from a good friend of ours - this puppy is 600 watts - so far we have yet to venture past 1 on the volume knob... apparently is equally awesome on both guitar and bass... was made in the 70's or late 60's - same model used by the Guess Who as well apparently... fun.
But yes recording - revamping of tunes and creating several new ones that will surely melt faces. We will keep you posted with updates and humorous stories. Hope you will enjoy at least a fraction as much as we will.

ed
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