Hey. Sorry I've been out of the pocket for a week. I've actually been able to do something I love this week: studio work for a local band that is getting some attention. I hope they make it.
It's been a hectic couple of weeks for me.
Last week we rehearsed (me on keyboards; which was the easy part) and then went into Ardent Studios for tracking this week. We have a little bit left to do on Friday and maybe a couple of overdubs but I think I'm pretty much back to normal now.
This has been an amazing week for me though (14 to 16 hour days); I got to hang out with one of my idols: Rick Steff (keyboard player for ... a ton of people) who was in the studio working as well; I talked with Jody Stephens for a while (drummer for Big Star); I got to briefly meet
Klaus Voorman who's in town working on the final stuff for a killer CD that should be out soon. I got to jam with John C. from Lucero tonight which was a blast.
Mostly I just played piano and organ and drank Irish whiskey. If I could make a living doing this my head would explode--not to mention my liver.
---And now for the relevant part instead of me gushing---
So where do we stand on finals for drums and rhythm etc.? Is anybody feeling it? Any drummers want to take a stab at it? I know that Fly is probably not in the best place to do this right now. What about foregoing drums altogether? Why don't we just upload .wavs of what we've got and try to put something together with it? Grumpyolddude do you have an upright bass? We could do a killer bass, piano, guitar, vocal thing ... even if you don't have an upright.