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October 3, 2005

Post Studio Report

I’m feeling a little low today. Not depressed or sad or even tired, just low. Some people go straight to the gas station when that low light comes on. There are others who know just how far they can ride on empty.

They tell you that you’re empty, but in my experience you can actually go pretty far with what you’ve got left.

I’m having a good day, really. I’m just recuperating from a week in the studio. It’s a lot of fun making and creating music in the studio, but concentrating that hard on one thing for 12 hours straight, 4 days in a row has left me blissed out and worn down.

These sessions were the beginning of a bit of a musical experiment I’m messing with. I’m really excited about the sounds we’ve gotten so far. I’m looking for a real classic sound on these recordings. I want the band to sound like a band playing live with all the charm and danger that comes with that. To that end we set everybody up in one room in the studio. We all played at the same time going take after take until we all felt that we had a good one.

This may sound obvious to those of you who don’t do a lot of recording. But truth be told most records today are recorded using multi-track recording and stacking a recording of the drummer on top of a recording the bass player did a week before, and then the guitar player comes in and plays along to that a week later.. and so on.

The results so far are amazingly soulful and funky. There’s some sounds of Al Green, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Coldplay, Donny Hathaway, Bob Marley… All the guys in the band pulled out some amazing performances and original ideas. Please be patient with me getting this music out to you. It’s all very much a work in progress. I’m just talking about it because, honestly I’m really excited by it.

Here are a few more pictures from the recording days.

Kevin white on Bass