We've recorded ourselves a number of times. Infact the whole band came about because Matt had gone to a studio and recorded a 22 - 24 track CD with his acoustic songs. Today was different though. Today we'd be going into a studio, and we would be leaving as recording artists.
I know it sounds cheesy, but it's how I felt. Without any recordings of our band to this date, we had been continually denied gig's. We pretty much had to make our own if we wanted to get new fans (see: hell barn).
We spent the morning on a practice session, to make the recording go easier. It also helped warm us up as musicians. We were at the studio about 15 minutes early, and our engineer (a nice guy by the name of Terry) was shocked to see us early.
We spent the next 45 minutes doing sound checks, and listening to Terry's stories about how bands always show up late, and sometimes show up an hour before their session was supposed to be finished.
We spent 5 hours in the studio laying down tracks for 6 songs. Sticking to an "old school" mentality of recording as a band, and not as separate musicians. We hoped by avoiding this, and laying down a guitar, bass, drum, and vocals track separately that we will accomplish capturing our powerful and unique live sound.
We ended up recording: "Don't Try & Tell Me How To Live", "Fed Up", "Butterfly", "Looking Through Clouds", and "Spillway Blues".
This is such an exciting time for us that we couldn’t have imagined how well it was going to work out. Terry, our engineer and studio owner, made the experience wonderful and it felt very natural for the 3 of us to work with him.
We asked to have a master copy by the 24th, but didn’t want to cut short Terry’s time to work. However, Terry seemed to think that timetable was more than efficient, and assuredn us that he would be prepared to have it ready.
So be prepared to hear our first respectable recordings released by the end of the year!!
Check our myspace for a chance to listen to these songs.
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