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We're still Studio-ing
Written Tuesday November 27, 2007 by Graham Wright
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Hello friends! I’m blogging less than I intended too, but its only because I’m actually busy making cool songs and stuff, so its a good thing.
Since my last missive, we’ve spent a good eight days in the studio. The first five or six were spent recording the drums, which is always the hardest part. Drums aren’t an easy instrument to play, especially for hours at a time, and you have to play everything perfectly. Poor Greg was put through his paces like a regular pack mule, but he was able to come out with some spectacular drum performances, which a pack mule would never have pulled off. Believe me, I’ve tried.
From there, we moved onto bass, and then keyboards, and then we started just putting random things on random songs when we felt like it. So we have some vocals done, some guitars done, and so on and so forth. If I had to guess, I’d say we’re around halfway done. And I’m pleased to report that everything is sounding wicked. I’m told that we’re now using every single microphone cable in the whole building, but we’re getting results! People keep asking me about the song Tesselate. Well, we’ve had a harder time with that song than any other song we’ve ever written, but we’ve finally got it. Everyone keeps saying it kicks ass, which is encouraging. It has a catchy keyboard riff written by Dave, and a boring keyboard riff written by me. But if anyone asks, I did it all because I’m great.
We watched that Metallica documentary today. I’m not really sure what else to say about that… If you’ve seen it, you know what I mean.
xo
Graham
We're Back, Studio Style!
Written Monday November 19, 2007 by Graham Wright
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Well, how have you been? We’ve been busy. We finished with our tour, and went right into intensive rehearsal for the record. We basically decided that the new songs we’d been working on didn’t rock as hard as we wanted, and we were working on making them work as proper live band songs, with just the four of us and no studio trickery involved. This was the fourth (I think) time that we’d set about writing songs properly, with the previous three times ending in frustrating defeat. This time, I’m pleased to report that we succeeded beyond our wildest hopes. Everything just came together with ease, and after a quick jaunt to Brazil, just to remind ourselves that we have the most stupidly crazy job ever, we wrapped things up, packed things up, and got ready to return to the studio.
For this leg of recording, we’ve gone back to our roots. We’re back in chilly Toronto, with our old friend Jon Drew and a team of other enthusiastic studio dudes with a penchant for talking about gear in terms that go far, far over my head. The excitement is palpable in the air, and we’re all convinced that we’re going to make something really really cool for you guys to listen to. I don’t want to jinx it, but I think its safe to say that it will be worth the admittedly long wait that we’ve put you through… The only downside is that the studio is close to a lot of really great restaurants, so I’m probably going to gain some serious weight. But what better to keep me warm as the Canadian winter descends on us once more?
Spirits are high in the Tokyo camp, and hopefully in your camp, too.
xoxo
Graham