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Saturday,
May 19, 2001 1:55pm
Mmmmm
I’m eating starburst jellybeans right now!
They’re so good!
And I’m listening to that “Flickerstick”
song called “Smile.” I like that song a lot!
It’s probably my 10-15th time
listening to it today already!
I got it off of MP3.com.
Flickerstick is one of the bands on that VH-1
show “Bands On The Run.”
It’s on Sunday nights at 10PM.
I want to be on that show so bad, and they’re
actually accepting applications for the new season, but
what sucks is that one of the rules is you have to have
between 4 and 5 people in your band.
Well I guess we can always hire us a clarinet and
banjo player, huh! lol
That’s cool though, cuz when we’re
professional rockstars, that’ll show em who to mess
with!
Okay, I’m back.
It’s 2:24pm now.
My dad put new tires on my car and just got home,
so I went to go see how they looked and all that.
I’m going to put a new system in it pretty soon
cuz all of our speakers are blown!
Well, I still have the front passenger door
speaker giving an 1/8th of its all to me, but
I think it’s pretty much ready for retirement.
And plus, music is a lot more enjoyable when you
can hear all of the tracks, and not just the
vocal and drum track… and occasionally a wailing
guitar. And
I want a CD deck too. I
have a portable CD player that I always use, but it’s
a hassle. Anyway, let’s talk about music, shall we.
Well this week was a lot different
from last week. I
don’t know what it was, but recording got a lot more
frustrating. I
think it’s cuz we got a lot more critical.
I mean, we’ve always wanted this album to sound
it’s best, but four of the five songs we recorded our
first week were first takes.
I was so relieved that we got through a whole
song pretty decent (cuz I always get nervous when I
record), so I’m like, “Sounds perfect! NEXT!!!”
But the recording we just did on Thursday and
Friday was like 20 takes each!
Well, maybe not that many, but we listened to the
song after each recording, and if the slightest thing
sounded different than it was supposed to be, we did the
whole song over again.
That got really frustrating!
Especially when we’re trying to stay on
schedule, and time is money and all that.
Anyway, our first week, drums were
started around 11am (we got there at 9, but setting up
and sound check took a long time), and done by 12:30pm.
But this week, we didn’t finish drums till 4 or
4:30! So
that threw everything off schedule.
That was Thursday.
So right after that, Mario started
on guitars. Then
6pm rolled around and it was time to go home.
So on Friday (yesterday), we went in hoping to
catch up. But
guitar actually took basically the whole entire day!
I finally hopped on bass at 5:40 and managed to
get one song done…. “At Night She Cries.”
The thing is that the songs we
recorded our first week were our simplest songs.
We arranged it that way purposely cuz we knew
we’d be more relaxed later on.
But the songs we just recorded this week had a
lot of different guitars going on at the same time, so
it took a lot longer to record.
And then we sat there forever just trying to
decide on what sound we wanted different guitars to have
and all that stuff.
So it was a lot more complicating than we thought
it would be.
Anyway, I was telling Mario that no
matter how far behind schedule we fall or how
frustrating things get or how much more extra money we
end up spending, 10 years from now it’s the experience
that’s going to matter to us.
This is our first CD ever!
All these little extra hassles are what make the
experience so much more memorable and fun to talk about
later on. Anyway,
I’m having a lot of fun recording and stuff.
Everyone at Love Juice is really cool, so it’s
making everything pretty relaxing and fun.
We’re going in this coming
Wednesday and Friday to record (and hopefully finish)
the last 5 songs we have. We were doing Thursday/Friday sessions, but we realized that
it’s better to put a day in between recording so we
can get some practice in before the next session.
We’re scheduling two extra days the week after
that to finish the songs we didn’t get to finish, and
then we’ll be mixing on June 6th and 7th.
I can’t wait for that!
Well I got to go eat now.
We’re having tacos!
Those and pizza are some of my favorite things to
eat! Well,
I’ll talk to you guys next week!
Marc
2:56pm
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