Long, long day. Woke up and went with Erik to grab some dinner at Solli's Deli before returning to Mushroom Studios. The full band was present (minus Michael), plus Condor (with engineer Rachel and runner Darryl), plus Danagement, plus photographer, plus Combination13 Steve Kitchen. Had a quick little photo sesh outside Mushroom for the album cover, then went inside to finish some of Richard's percussion. Kevin from Ska-boom! fame came to lay down some trumpet lines on some tunes, including my original "Dan Cowan Riot Stomp." Monster player, first-take kind of cat.
Dusty brought in a cat named Nicklesh (I think that's the proper spelling) to sing Jamaican dub-plate style lines over "Reaper," blew my mind. He's amazing, there's talk of getting him on "25 years" and "Kick Me When I'm Down" as well, I'm really looking forward to hearing more and working more with him in the future.
Finished up some bass tracks, and Kevin & I finished recording the rest of the horn lines for the album. I finished around 1:30 a.m. and ran around the control room giving celebratory high-fives to everyone. (We had a ridiculous amount of people stop by and hang out through-out the day. Great feeling to have that almost extended-family vibe happening in the middle of the hammerhouse grind.)
In between downing pots of coffee and typing all the swear words I know into the recording console, I didn't really do much today outside of sit next to Condor and hit the Talk-Back through all the sessions. And for that I claim Engineer credit, 10%.
For posterity's sake, let the World Wide Web's hall-of-records show that I recorded these songs this weekend with a brutal, brutal case of strep throat and tonsillitis. (Whatever the medical term for that is, I don't know, I saw it written on wikipedia somewhere.) Point being, every time I played my saxophone it felt like somebody was torquing a rusty screwdriver through my neck. I never want to have do go through that again. That sucked.
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