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"Hey, aen, don't you start one of these pretty much annually?"

Yeah, but this one is going to get finished, come hell or highwater. Plus a certain Indiana Robert is moving to mah town so I can count on someone to work with.


Anyway, I put in about 5 hours today, the first tw or so being total wasted crap, which figures because I haven't recorded in ages, and i was actually feeling some fear before starting this new thing. It's going to be a full band, doing my songs. songs with words, even. Anyway, Started on "Don't Bury Me" today. I wrote the song's first draft at least 3 years ago, it was sort of a jokey country thing, but now it's... uh, it's a Tough Birds song.


First board, I ended up using ECthunder, POG and the delay


Second board, and audio interface. Both of these just held loops, one of which I accidentally deleted out of the session, but they're just textural things with no timing or cues or anything, so itll be easy to drop back in.


REJECTED! This just arrived today, it wasnt cooperating for this track in particular. I'll hang onto it until the whoel band is together, and see if we find a good permanent spot for it before I flip it.


MIMJAZZMASTOR. Also didn't get on spectacularily with this guitar today, but it ended up doing its job, I guess.


Twin Reefer. Reverb, I mean. Of course, great for the cleans, but I had to hit the dirty stuff with a low pass filter, because the twin's tone stack lets through this awful super high staticy stuff that sucks. I never noticed it live or in practice before.


The classic "mic right on the cloth" method yeilded shitbox results. Moving it back 4 or 5 inches made a world of difference.


Vox through the trusty old "Big CAD"

I managed to get a fair portion of the guitar work done, and probably keeper vocals, too. I also did some disgustingly rudimentary drums via my (bareley functional) midi keyboard and Reason, mostly just to keep time for the drummer, when he arrives.

If I had a (goddamn) video camera, I would have shot a video like my old pal Doog, but i DONT so I DIDN"T.

if you need to get rid of the jazzmaster, call me.

plus spacestation!
a vid would have been killer too!!! pretty exciting stuff, best of luck getting everything sorted out, should be like butta when you get everyone together

Haze wrote:plus spacestation!
a vid would have been killer too!!! pretty exciting stuff, best of luck getting everything sorted out, should be like butta when you get everyone together

My "filmmaker" brother in law hasn't been doing shit lately, (well, except for working full time and raising a brand new baby) I'm hoping to get him to document the process, and shoot a music video or two.

FUCK THIS SHIT

MOAR RONALD RAYGUNZERS

If you can fix Matt Haapala you can have The Ronald Raygun. We can chalk up the loss of that band, which was pretty much my religion, and certainly up to this point, the best work either one of us have ever done, to mental illness.

i has pedals, and gears, and drums, and the needs to rock harder with my old pal aen in eau claire!

robert(original) wrote:i has pedals, and gears, and drums, and the needs to rock harder with my old pal aen in eau claire!

PLEASE MAKE THE WORLD COLLAPSE WITH THIS BLACKHOLE OF SOUUNNNDDDDDD

aen: sorry about that. i didn't mean anything by that. it's just nothing will compare to ronald.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:

robert(original) wrote:i has pedals, and gears, and drums, and the needs to rock harder with my old pal aen in eau claire!

PLEASE MAKE THE WORLD COLLAPSE WITH THIS BLACKHOLE OF SOUUNNNDDDDDD

aen: sorry about that. i didn't mean anything by that. it's just nothing will compare to ronald.

+x ^1,000,000 Yeah, I liked that stuff a lot. I also liked the Suncrusher stuff youo did as well. Please continue creating.

hotrodperlmutter wrote: aen: sorry about that. i didn't mean anything by that. it's just nothing will compare to ronald.

Oh, hey no worries, I wasn't offended, I just thought I'd clear up any quesitons about that band. I really don't know if aything I do will be better than TRR, that was an intense, beautiful and painfull stretch of my life, and every second we released to the public we were flying at mach 3 with out hair on fire. I'd like to think I can rebuild that kind of communication and musical trust with someone again, but I'm certainly not expecting to.

i hope you do, cuz that shit kills everything. i think my cactus next to my computer could not take it so it has wilted.

if you expect something, expect to be disapointed.
im fed up with the musicians in c-ville, everyone is too busy doing nothing and no one wants to write/jam. i like to play 4 nights a week at the least.
im prepared to take over the world and go to disney land

thought you were moving in with aen to start recording?!

DO IT