Moving Forward by Going Backwards.

So we are making progress by going back and re-doing all the scratch tracks that have been put down so far. For now, we seem to be focusing on "Great God", "Chase The Shades of Night", "These Burdens", and something else i can't remember right now. Those songs are the furthest along, so they have momentum and are easy to work on. Last night it was me, christian, michelle, tim, tom, sandy, and Blue (who showed up knowing full well that he may not get to actually play anything - but he was there for the laughs). we focused mainly on drums as i had the drum room set up and ready to go from a couple days prior. I got some ideas for beats from christian (you can see him in this weeks video coaching me - very funny). i did many takes of this simple little pattern. many takes:

here i am tuning up a drum. i hate that beard. it's coming off tonite.

Tom again did the photos and vids... he's got this new little gag going where he's sneaking up on people in the control room and spraying them in the ear with compressed air. check out the video for his latest victims. Now that i think of it.. that's probably not the best idea to do to an audio engineer.

While i did take after take of 2 songs on the drums and christian played the comedy puppet, tim ran the board and computer and blue noodled his banjo. While we rocked, the girls knit.

here's the vid for this week. i left it a bit longer since youtube seems to have an unlimited amount of storage space for whatever junk people want to let the world in on. good for us!