Day 10
Day 10 started with the early morning moose vocal. I had the pleasure of added a vocal track that was an octave below John's vocal which is no easy task. This was done in the middle of the chorus section of I Wouldn't Sleep With You and we did it at about 10:30am to preserve the low end morning phlegm sound. We got it too! Godfrey say it worked because I'm part phlegmish. (not really).
Enter Godfrey who is always a stickler for perfection. He insisted on doing some guitar vamp repairs. We didn't want him to change anything but we gave in and as a result his parts were even stronger. Godfrey and Alan worked on the jig in the studio while John and I prepared to lay down some rhythm section grooves for Cakewalk's new digital audio program. These short rhythm tracks will be made available to other composers through Cakewalk's Musician's Toolbox. The idea is to let people use our tracks to create the rhythm section for their songs. They can edit and alter the tracks to suit their needs. We headed down to the studio and laid down the tracks with Bobby.
After this was completed Alan, Godfrey and I went in the studio to finalize the arrangement for the jig and put it on tape. The next step is for John to add his parts. We are looking forward to his input.
Now it's dinner time and then into the lounge for a movie. But before tonight's feature we went into the bar ( for a change ). Alan had broken John's record on Asteroids and now felt that I had to join this competition. Godfrey wanted to play too so we set it up for 2 players. Watching him fly the little spacecraft around made me realize why I used to drive myself to gigs. He'd zoom off the screen, start to panic and ask " Where's my little guy ?" In the heat of the competition we were joined by a fat little mouse. He was walking through the bar so calmly that I asked John "Is this a friend of yours?" He replied yes, no, yes he is. We ushered him to the door but not before he turned to laugh at Godfrey's poor video game technique.
Godfrey and I went to the lounge to begin watching the movie of the night which was Tombstone. This film is one of our favorites. We had it on the bus for the last tour. Footnote: every film we had on the bus had explosions and screaming in it. This list included The Specialist, Gettysburg, Natural Born Killers ( Godfrey still has nightmares from that one) Starwars, The Battle of Britain and Speed. Needless to say it was tough to get any sleep while someone was watching a movie with the surround sound cranked.
We had just started the movie when John and Alan came in the room and asked us to watch Euro Trash on regular TV. We agreed and for the next ¸ hour we were entertained by some of the weirdest things I've ever seen on a TV screen. This program included an old guy in a penguin suit eating raw fish and I don't mean sushi. However there was a section that featured sushi that was served to the customers on a naked girl. You can't make this stuff up folks. We asked "Is this regular TV?" John just smiled.
After our short detour through the bizarre we continued watching Tombstone. John disappeared and returned with a book about the old west. We needed to know certain facts and John provided the answers.
At midnight Lisa showed up with some crumbled birthday cake. Yes it's my birthday now 9/21. Godfrey passed on the cake fearing the sugar would keep him up all night. He soon retired and the rest of us yacked until almost 5am. Good cake! John took me to the snooker room to show me a painting of Butch Cassidy's gun. As you may or may not know John is well versed on the subject of the old west and antique firearms. I then found an old book titled The Who in Sweden. John told us the stories that went along with the pictures. It's hard to believe that the kid in those 30 year old pictures is our bass guitarist.
5am time for bed.