Animal Enema's

Another short but productive day.

Lacking anything relevant to put here today here's a gratuitous picture of Stud

Jesse showed up around 11:00 after I ran some errands, like getting milk, oj, eggs and the money I owed the contractor for the floor in my kitchen.  He said he needed to eat lunch before his headache got worse so we could probably finish up Flying J and do 1 acoustic track for Mowin' the Shoulder before that.

He managed to get his electric parts for Flying J redone in one take then I had him do some fancy leads, which took significantly longer.  That's largely due to the fact that when I say "play a squibbley deet doo right there!" Jesse usually thinks I'm being a crazy person.  Maybe I am.  The runs turned out great though.

Then he laid down a scratch vocal.  It shouldn't bother me.  I told him to sing it however he wanted and I muted my guide vocal so he didn't have anything to go on... And he sings it different.  It bothers me a little, it shouldn't.  I'll get used to it and it'll be fine.

After Flying J, Jesse was so elated that he apparently forgot about lunch.  He laid down all his guitar parts for Mowin' the Shoulder pretty quick and then we hit Casa Manana for lunch where we discussed what song to move onto next.  Ropin' the Wind.

Ropin' has a back story that will most likely be discussed in tomorrow's blog.  For now, it's the only song I've gone out of my way to try and find a guest musician for.

Laying down fretless on Mowin' the Shoulder

After lunch we came back to the house and I laid down my fretless part on Mowin' the Shoulder.  I'm not going to say it went down in one take but it went pretty smooth.  Luckily Jesse had already laid down a scratch vocal for this months ago when he sent me the demo so it's done until it gets real drums and fiddle.

It's 4:30 now and we've been done recording for an hour.  A short day, but productive.  Another song in the bag, a indefinite but definitely weird theoretical structure to another song resolved and a guest musician added to the agenda.  Today is short by the way because we are doing our third family Christmas in an hour.  

But until tomorrow, remember to vote yes for animal enemas on November 7th!  They need them because they don't get enough oats.

Photo courtesy of Richard Jakman