Merry Christmas

Christmas fare seems to be really similar to the Thanksgiving spread down in the south.

Christmas dinner in the south

As assumed yesterday, not much got done today.  Woke up, went and ate breakfast at the relatives.  Came home for about a couple hours, laid down a mandolin track that was supposed to be a scratch track and headed to Jesse's moms house for lunch.

Tremolo picking on Dead Man's Curve

After lunch Jesse and I went back to the "studio" to give everything we did yesterday a second listen.  Everything seemed agreeable and other than the ending to the chorus Jesse liked the mandolin parts.  Re-recorded those and worked on... Fretless bass solo.  When we originally decided to put a bass solo on this album there were two things different.  Someone else was supposed to be playing bass and more importantly it wasn't supposed to be fretless.  

Jesse was extremely patient and helpful and after way more takes than it took to get the rhythm bass track we got a solo we could live with.  And hopefully I'll never play a fretless bass solo again.

Everything is laid down for Dead Man's Curve that Jesse and I are playing except vocals, which will be last and probably done at T-dub Studios as Trip is referring to his home now.

Hope you guys all had a festive holiday season and ate plenty of oats!

photo courtesy of Richard Jakman