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things have finally gotten under way... we've had 2 sessions recording drums.
the first was just Daren and me, doing songs the band have been playing for a while. we got the main section (7-8 minutes) of ALL MY BONES, along with CHOO CHOO TRAIN, and THE RED BIRDS. on BONES we used a click-track, as it is such a long piece.
then for the second, Greg and Eric were here to help work out some of the parts on new songs, in these genres: electric blues, psychobilly, boogie-woogie. there was also a construction i brought in, in my effort to get away from song-forms, which had a click for the first half.
saturday 10 january will be our 3rd drum session, and this time Bill will be recording some drum tracks of his own, beside the ones Daren will be doing. we'd like to leave at least one track of Bill's 'as is', and take another of his tracks and loop parts of it. maybe on sunday Bill can add some different instruments to the song, too.
it will be interesting to ask him what he wants to do (for any of these sessions). i'd love to ask him, 'is there a song you want us to do? what instruments should be on it? what should the guitar do?' etc. maybe Bill can instruct us for a song.
Sara is getting Mike Neel to shoot these sessions, as she and Lee are working on another movie. i think we'll wind up recording a 4th drum session after this. it really feels as tho these are simply going to be the next lp (and 45), and that we are NOT going to go to any other studios... so we might as well try to record a lot of pieces (since the basic premise is to record a double-lp). soon, tho, we should be laying down guitars and bass, and finally Bill's vocals.
i hope we can find a workable solution for him singing, as far as headphones or loudspeaker monitoring goes. he really prefers it live. i think he dislikes tinny-sounding bass (for example, he always prefers big speakers over little ones), and likes live drums cracking behind him. we might have to do the STEVE PEPPER trick, and have him in front of a single speaker. it's what the beatles did, til 1966: for vocal overdubs they used a monitor perpendicular to a figure-of-8 mic, with no headphones.
Bill might get really into it if i tell him the beatles did it too.
-john
the first was just Daren and me, doing songs the band have been playing for a while. we got the main section (7-8 minutes) of ALL MY BONES, along with CHOO CHOO TRAIN, and THE RED BIRDS. on BONES we used a click-track, as it is such a long piece.
then for the second, Greg and Eric were here to help work out some of the parts on new songs, in these genres: electric blues, psychobilly, boogie-woogie. there was also a construction i brought in, in my effort to get away from song-forms, which had a click for the first half.
saturday 10 january will be our 3rd drum session, and this time Bill will be recording some drum tracks of his own, beside the ones Daren will be doing. we'd like to leave at least one track of Bill's 'as is', and take another of his tracks and loop parts of it. maybe on sunday Bill can add some different instruments to the song, too.
it will be interesting to ask him what he wants to do (for any of these sessions). i'd love to ask him, 'is there a song you want us to do? what instruments should be on it? what should the guitar do?' etc. maybe Bill can instruct us for a song.
Sara is getting Mike Neel to shoot these sessions, as she and Lee are working on another movie. i think we'll wind up recording a 4th drum session after this. it really feels as tho these are simply going to be the next lp (and 45), and that we are NOT going to go to any other studios... so we might as well try to record a lot of pieces (since the basic premise is to record a double-lp). soon, tho, we should be laying down guitars and bass, and finally Bill's vocals.
i hope we can find a workable solution for him singing, as far as headphones or loudspeaker monitoring goes. he really prefers it live. i think he dislikes tinny-sounding bass (for example, he always prefers big speakers over little ones), and likes live drums cracking behind him. we might have to do the STEVE PEPPER trick, and have him in front of a single speaker. it's what the beatles did, til 1966: for vocal overdubs they used a monitor perpendicular to a figure-of-8 mic, with no headphones.
Bill might get really into it if i tell him the beatles did it too.
-john
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