Continuing the work on Carls Chair this week, with Paul doing the slide overdubs and licks. Pete at Goose Studios (Obvious Plug For Good Dude) reckons this stuff is Folk. All it takes is one Mandolin and look what happens!
After much deliberation, listening and note making, we're back in the studio doing the fixes and overdubs for Carls Chair.
This has turned out to be the EP that could. Originally intended as our traditional side project between studio albums, this project has kept on chugging and looks like it will be another full album release, and if we can keep the pressure on, may be our second release for 2010.
So once again we headed into Goose Studios, where our excellent mate Mr Doherty started working through the minor fixes.
Its a fine balance to strike between preserving the live feel of the location sound but still fixing bits. We ran out of time during the location sessions, so we left off a few solo's and things we knew we could do in the studio. The temptation to fix and replace every error has been resisted, in order to keep the vibe of the adventure, but frankly, we're not above a little polishing (ie: Cheating).
Here's Paul working on a new Bass line for Cheap Hotel
We're now rolling along on a schedule to get this complete. Stay tuned as we keep working on it, and as always, if you want to hear the songs before the CD is out, come along to a live gig :-)
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Yo! It's a weekend of Three Gigs! With T-Boid back in the deputy slot, its shaping up to be a good weekend of gigging.
Friday night we're raising funds for beyond blue at the Newtown RSL ($5 cover, 4 bands 8pm start, we're headlining...i.e last act), then the Pendle Inn on Saturday at 7:30pm and the Bald Rock Hotel in Balmain, Sunday arvo around 5:30. The sat and Sun are free gigs and the Friday gig is a $5 donation on the door to beyondblue.
Back from a glorious summery afternoon at the Time & Tide. We finished our set before the weather rolled in. Cheers to Craig and Wheels for coming down for the afternoon. It was good to see so many familiar faces int he crowd.
Also a continuing note of thanks to our Deputy Deputy, Mr Henry Swilka (finally I got the spelling down! Yay!) for keeping it together. Once again, Sweet Misery proved to be a completely different song every time we play it.
T-Boid will be back in the chair for the coming weekend, as we continue to send healing thoughts to our Sherriff, Theo, who is itching (literally) to rejoin active duty.
We have a big week coming up, with three gigs in a row, check the other articles or the calendar for details (will stop me repeating myself).