Day4. The noise.

So it comes down to this guitar and this amp. today we got in early for some hooking up of boxes, equipments and morning star links… no coffee, just links. Andi was messing around with the Vox Jaguar and dana was in tech support hell earlier so we get running around noon. Four main things today – another list:

1 – arrange ‘into black’ from 5 different versions the neal did for us.
2 – add final bass track to that song.
3 – get noah’s wurly up and running for 5 tracks.
4 – guitars begin.

‘into black’ has been a problem song only in that it presented too many possibilities of composition. now is worked out. Its changed since it originally arrived in crete five years ago but it still has the same feel attached to it. It still reminds me of that place whenever i play it. The old music for memories thing. We get the bass added pretty quick thanks to victor’s old telecaster bass – that thing just sounds so round and golden. blah blah…

Next up the wurlitzer piano. I just marvel at this thing. It turns anyone into Ray Charles, Manzarek etc… Dana and i wonder if maybe those guys were actually just great because that Wurly never sounds bad? Its dismissed pretty quick but, you know, we both add some cool tones to the songs under the 200A spell. I’ll get an mp3 here soon.

We break to take a look at the airstream dana is considering as a mobile recording unit. can you imagine? Shame the guy who’s selling is a methed out crazy man who bleats on and on about nothing and everything all at once; “You guys recording? i got , you know, my brother gave me the organ and now i got the dvd player and the laptop i mean you know what i’m talking about but yeah you talk to ted he know s all what’s going on you just tell him and we’ll work it out but soon i mean you know this other guy was wanting to know today but i told him i’m sleeping and working 2 hours at the airport and you know how it is….” er…

A brief food break with the ladies and then comes the guitars. I worry about this way more than i should. Keyboards, bass etc… are not really my instruments so there’s less pressure to be something of quality but this i’m supposed to be good at. So its a relief when the sound of the V hooked to that little late sixties 20w Marshall just makes it all easy. Simple good tone. Thank you Greg for lending me your setup – it sounds incredible. We run two songs tonight. And its truly a joy to rock ‘coming apart’ in a falling down the stairs fashion; dana’s reassuring patience making it easy to take it 5 times to explore as much random note behaviour as possible. I’m stamping around Young-style – no fear of sanitizing the records in the studio. I like a mess of guitar. We also go through ‘all in favour’ this time both in the control room with dana controlling the memory man delay. I love all this collaboration. But its late and time for a drink at the local pub – authentic Bonnlair. Old speckled hen – i say!