Nashville Final Day of Recording
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Andy got a little trigger happy when he was counting the days we spent in Nashville in his last post. We ended up spending three full days recording at LyricCanvas Studios (Saturday, Sunday, Monday).
For weeks, I heard “you will never get 10 songs done in three days.” Anyone who acted like they knew anything about recording told me that reaching such a goal was impossible. I wasn’t allowing the band enough time, we weren’t tight enough to move fast enough, my voice wouldn’t hold out long enough. I basically felt like the Mugsy Bogues of recording artists in the NBA of studios. I’m currently lying on my couch, and announcing that in fact, we did not get 10 songs done in three days. We got 11 done. Boom.
Monday (our last day) was penned to start at 9:00 am. Heading into the morning, we had exactly 3.85 songs done – Chicago, Wolf, Simple Man, Sound of Waves – which left 6-7 songs left to complete. Which meant that I had to complete the vocals on one song per two hours if we wanted to successfully walk away from the weekend.
The idea was that I’d do one song, take a break and let someone else handle a tambourine or the Rhodes as filler for other songs.
To make things easy on myself, I knocked out “The Rain” first thing in the morning. While I’m happy with the vocals on this song, I’m 100% positive that no one will be listening to the vocals on this song since Phil Keaggy’s awesomeness is now injected into it…which is fine by me.
About 30 cups of boiling Refresh Tea and a bottle of honey later, I finished “In Between,” “Simple Man,” “More Than a Word,” “So Cold Alone,” “Stir,” and “It’s Okay.”
Before we wrapped up our time, I told Andy that I wanted to do a new song on keys. It’s called Fight in Me, and I thought it’d be a pretty addition and closing to the album. So we tried knocking it out live together. I’m not sure if I like how it turned out or not. Only because I don’t think I gave it enough time. So I’m trying to see if we can record that back in Indy, or if I should just keep it acoustic-guitar-driven.
So that’s it. We headed home and arrived back in Indy at 3:00 am on Tuesday morning – which also happened to be my birthday. Gotta say, it was the most anti-climactic birthday ever. All I wanted to do was sleep. Drinking green beer was the last thing I wanted to do…besides sing. But we made it happen. 11 songs.
Rumor has it that Jason will have all of the songs mixed to our liking sometime in May. The plan, as of now, is to throw the album up onto Itunes first, and then get some money to print tangible cd’s later. Not sure if I’ve ever heard of anyone doing that, but I’m also not sure we have another choice if we want to get these songs out on a reasonable date.
So now, we can look forward to scheduling more shows and trying to expand our name into different markets. First things first – I think we’re playing in an Indianapolis Hard Rock Battle of the Bands contest starting in early April. So stay tuned for more on that.
Once again, thank you to everyone who kept up with us throughout our time in Nashville. Whether you were watching the live stream or you were sending us texts, it was good to know that you were out there rooting us on.
Later,
Tyler
2 Responses to “Nashville Final Day of Recording”
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me Says:
March 28th, 2009 at 2:45 pmClarification:
I didn’t get “trigger happy”…I was going off of the day count from the first post…The day count didn’t make sense to me…but I wanted to be consistent-I didn’t want to call out the ERROR from post #1… -
me Says:
March 28th, 2009 at 2:48 pmAlso, I liked how Fight In Me turned out so far…And the Rain is ridiculous. And as an avid non-Country music fan, I am shocked that I am really enjoying Simple Man…