How HAL 9000 sees The Good Yeggs
This is about as artistic as one can get with an iPhone camera, or was that autistic.
We reconvened at Thomas' recording studio as we slowly build up our repertoire of tracks for the next CD. This is a photo of the boys re-recording the Guitar and Bass for "Going On Without You" as I was happy with my Drum track.
Two Songs were finished today and all involved were quite happy, Thomas' boy Sonny also gave his seal of approval and they only await mix down and mastering which is Thomas' forte' and then we bitch back and forth about smaller details via email.
Aside from "Going On Without You" we also finished Joe's song "Good Enough Is Good" replete with double tracked 3 part harmony on the chorus backing vocals making us like this crazy six headed Yegg and I also added a 2 bar Drum intro off the cuff, we were all quite chuffed I have to tell you.
A photo from the mid-80s of three quarters of The Sub Basement Blues Band (thats me, Thomas and Franklin, Joe is not in the pic but was probably in the other room playing snooker) that was propped up on the mixing console taken at a RESIDUE gig (Pete Lomenzo, David Stumacher, Ernie Brescia, Bobby Poska & Mike Roberto), thats Thomas' dad in the background talking to very possibly Jamie.
What is important about this photo is the early implications and usage of the "photo bombing" technique if you look in the background there. I will have to ask Thomas who that forward thinking individual is.
Joe and his buddy Bud getting mic levels before laying down lead vocal tracks.
Tambourine in hand. I wouldnt wear a t-shirt on purpose to a recording session knowing there were photos being taken and then pose in said t-shirt making sure the headphone cable and tambourine was not obscuring the t-shirt graphic now would I ?.
Thomas showing off his Big Board with 24 track capability. He has a nice mixing console too.
You really had to be there but I did get to utilize The Bose Headphones.
We were all in our headphones during the initial warm up and run through and as we are using modern recording techniques the guitars are running direct through the board and there being no acoustic amplification involved we need to hear each other, I spied a little red light on Thomas' headphones and asked peering under my right crash cymbal at Joe, I commented "Joe, Thomas has a little red light on his headphones" (we were sporting the twenty dollar jobbies) to which Tom replied "Well, these are the good BOSE headphones".
Later in the day came time for Tambourine overdubs and I Chose The Bose.
BOSE laboratories can contact me via this Blog for future sponsorship deals.
Upon seeing this photo my friend Kristine commented "You all look like your in the Apollo space ship floating at Zero Gs"
Hello Mission Control from the Yegg 3.
Joe and Thomas had Ham & Cheese Sammiches for our lunch but I went for a Roast Beef & Cheese with Lettuce, Tomato, Mayo and Salt & Pepper on a Roll. I also got rather ill towards the end of our session, I don't blame the Sammich but you never know do you.
On the way to the store I mentioned how I needed to take photos for this here BLOG and Joe said "yeah more pictures, we are just a little older and a little fatter". In the corner Deli as I was seeking my Lipton Citrus Green Tea which I did actually find I came up with "Beers, Bitches & Pork Rinds" as a possible future CD title so we added them together.
"Beers, Bitches & Pork Rinds, A Little Older & A Little Fatter"
You had to be there but I for one don't want to lose the LP title to the winds of time so I jotted it down here.
- Spike
