He Slimed Me

Last night we had a stress reliever gathering.  There was fire, gin, jager and eventually a visit to KD's, which while I'm sober I despise.  I was fairly belligerent last night.  I do remember cooking bacon at 1:00 in the morning right before we went to KD's though.

The fellas sitting around the fire

While yesterday felt pretty productive that feeling diminished today.  I woke up around 8:00, showered, programmed the drum loops for Two Bowls of Porridge, recorded the bass line and a scratch vocal for Ropin' the Wind and then waited for Jesse.  His text of "I'm going to lay in bed for an hour then I'll be over" at 9:30 was unintentionally deceptive.  Since he was laying down I decided to as well.  Watched some Psych and a terrible movie called Girls Gone Dead (though it's not as bad as the 1 star rating netflix gave it led me to believe it would be) and fell asleep.  Not necessarily in that order.

Jesse rolled on by around 2:30.  He apparently fell asleep too.  Then he wanted to listen to the Mowin' the Shoulder tracks.  I thought it was going to be a standard listen: "Yes, what we did yesterday was great, lets move on."  I was wrong.

There's a diminished chord during the chorus to Mowin' the Shoulder.  I'm not a great fretless player.  These two facts didn't sit well with Jesse so we punched in all bass parts for all the choruses.  It's two notes so it doesn't seem like it would be that big of a deal, however, because Jesse's guitar parts were also sub par, no matter what I played it sounded like crap.  We didn't discover the acoustic guitars were the culprits until we'd been at it about 2.5 hours.

Then we worked on electric tracks, which Jesse still isn't happy with.  So much for the agenda I made yesterday.

Theoretical recording schedule for C.o.P.

We did work on Ropin' the Wind though.  Unless Jesse shows up tomorrow morning and can't stand the guitar parts or I write some mandolin parts for it, it's done.  It is the first song we've finished up that I've found myself disappointed on though.  Something about it just isn't doing it for me at this point.  Maybe it's the computer drums.  When we play it live I love it.  It's super fun and up beat but the recorded version just doesn't have anything to make it "special" yet.  I'm thinking a harmonica solo.

Tomorrow we move onto Riding in a Boxcar and Tears on the Pavement.  Tears should come together pretty fast and I intend to record most of the guitars for Riding in a Boxcar before Jesse gets here tomorrow so that everything is all ready.  He can just lay down solo's and do whatever it is that he wants to do.  

Yesterdays blog mentioned the back story for Ropin' the Wind.  I'm already feeling long winded in this post so... You'll have to wait for another day when I don't have anything to say!

Here's what we've got so far for the album

Intro
Mowin' the Shoulder
Flying J
Dead Man's Curve
Holy Man
Billy the Kid
Ropin' the Wind

With these left to do

Two Bowls of Porridge  <-- Monday - Fretless Bass, Mandolin
Tears on the Pavement <-- Sunday - Fretted Bass
Two Friends o' Mine <-- Monday - Fretted Bass
Riding in a Boxcar <-- Sunday - Fretted Bass, Mandolin

Hope you're as excited as we are and I leave you with this wonderful image

Photo courtesy of Michael J. Oxbigg