Hey Soul Mates,
it was a long and productive day at the Lincoln Lounge. It was our last scheduled recording session for our album. We got to hear some preliminary mixes of a few things, including U Had The $, which is gonna take you back to 1982 in a good way. Adam Marsland has pulled out a few vintage machines to get some way-back sounds. Sucka is huge and Everything My Heart Desires (EMHD) also sounds spectacular. Though it currently features a Hammond organ, I'm lobbying for a piano part. Regardless, Adam has gotten his hands on a glockenspiel which will figure prominently on EMHD.
I had to redo the lead vocal for Fall Out. This time around I got a much livelier feel for the number and tore through it. Down By Love still presented its challenges, but we got through it adding lots of harmony and secondary vocal parts. Ladies favorite Done Lost My Mind was completed after Bryan and I did harmonies for the coda. I performed Doug's part, hope I did him justice in his stead. I also did a cool stack of vox on the bridge of Done Lost.
As you can tell, it's after 2 a.m. I was actually lapsing into sleep while doing multiple takes on the backing for Done Lost My Mind. I wasn't satisfied with my performance on that section, no duh, and we scrapped that part.
By midnight, we were all a little punchy. Bryan and I entertained Adam and Steve Refling with our imitation of our good mate, James "Biggie" Stewart from Scotland. Sadly, I cannot repeat the improvised dialogue here. But if you met James when he was here in LA last Summer, you won't have to stretch your imagination. James, we miss you!
Well, our next sessions at the Lincoln Lounge will be for mixing the first week of June. We have one off-site session for percussion and etc. for later this month. At that point all of the actual recording is finished. Then, we'll start leaking some snippets to you. I'll be blogging more in the meantime. We still have lots of homework to do with the mixes that we got this evening and more to come. Plenty of good listening.
Love, Power, Peace
it was a long and productive day at the Lincoln Lounge. It was our last scheduled recording session for our album. We got to hear some preliminary mixes of a few things, including U Had The $, which is gonna take you back to 1982 in a good way. Adam Marsland has pulled out a few vintage machines to get some way-back sounds. Sucka is huge and Everything My Heart Desires (EMHD) also sounds spectacular. Though it currently features a Hammond organ, I'm lobbying for a piano part. Regardless, Adam has gotten his hands on a glockenspiel which will figure prominently on EMHD.
I had to redo the lead vocal for Fall Out. This time around I got a much livelier feel for the number and tore through it. Down By Love still presented its challenges, but we got through it adding lots of harmony and secondary vocal parts. Ladies favorite Done Lost My Mind was completed after Bryan and I did harmonies for the coda. I performed Doug's part, hope I did him justice in his stead. I also did a cool stack of vox on the bridge of Done Lost.
As you can tell, it's after 2 a.m. I was actually lapsing into sleep while doing multiple takes on the backing for Done Lost My Mind. I wasn't satisfied with my performance on that section, no duh, and we scrapped that part.
By midnight, we were all a little punchy. Bryan and I entertained Adam and Steve Refling with our imitation of our good mate, James "Biggie" Stewart from Scotland. Sadly, I cannot repeat the improvised dialogue here. But if you met James when he was here in LA last Summer, you won't have to stretch your imagination. James, we miss you!
Well, our next sessions at the Lincoln Lounge will be for mixing the first week of June. We have one off-site session for percussion and etc. for later this month. At that point all of the actual recording is finished. Then, we'll start leaking some snippets to you. I'll be blogging more in the meantime. We still have lots of homework to do with the mixes that we got this evening and more to come. Plenty of good listening.
Love, Power, Peace
Comments
Just read through the recent blog entries that you've made, I didn't realize that Anne and I would have figured so much in your writings of late. :-)
Anne and myself were both overwhelmed by yours and Patty's kindnesses and love shown to us during our trip to LA. You are two of the best people we know!
It was great to meet up with Bryan in NoHo too, shame we didn't get to see him more than once though. It was great to see the spirit of RHS alive and well.
Reading your blogs about the recordings and the mixing to come, I so know you're going to have a wonderful polished product to wow us all with. The UK awaits your return with baited breath! In fact I believe the world awaits the release of the RHS album.
You've all got to keep beleiving that you've got a great sound to offer the world. The world needs the California sunshine all the year round, enter RHS!
Love and peace
Andrew (aka bowieboy57)