Dead Man's Curve

We may be comin' 'round to Dead Man's Curve... but not at the pace I'd hoped for.  

This is the pace at which are we recording

While I admit... my original hopefulness about how much Jesse and I could get done in a week was probably a tad optimistic, I still feel let down today.  Jesse voted to start on Dead Man's Curve as that's the song he said he was most familiar with.  As an aside, we play several of the other songs live... and we don't play that one... 

My day began at 9:15am.  I got up, sent out the text that coffee was being prepared and proceeded to get the room more conducive to vibe.  Lit incense, threw away trash, stocked fridge with soda and water... 

10:30: "Cool, I'll be over after I shower and eat." 

So I finished my pot of coffee and played some Dragon Warrior II while I waited for what I presumed would be about 45 minutes.

Around 11:30 I got bored of DWII and started cleaning up files on CoP tracks, restrung my acoustic guitar (even though it isn't being used to record) and mandolin and laid down a fretless guide track for the song we were doing.

~2:00 Jesse shows up.  No biggie.  It's his vacation.  I would have liked to get started earlier but it's day one.  We have plenty of time and the songs are easy.

DMC is about 4 minutes long.  2 hours later, we have 2 acoustic guitar tracks.  

Jesse doing the finger picking track for Dead Man's Curve

I laid down my fretless track in one take with 2 minor punch ins and then we moved onto getting an electric sound.  Luckily we spent significantly less time getting the electric guitar track down and had time to mess around and add a short solo.  Jesse was surprisingly amiable even after I told him "you're playing to many notes."

All in all, track sounds pretty good and all the basic parts are down.  Still needs a scratch vocal and mandolin before it is ready to be sent out to Mr. Fontenot for drums but tomorrow is Christmas and I don't think we'll be getting much done.  Mandolin may get done in the morning while the mistress is at work but Christmas is always family day at the Rauser abode and retrieving Jesse from the catacombs is not a likely prospect.  

              Tomorrow's update will likely be very short, but until then, eat your oats!

Photo courtesy of Michael J. Oxbigg and Richard Jakman