gladiators eat fire

I think it’s safe to say that none of us are morning people. 8 AM is no time to be awake in my book, unless you haven’t gone to bed yet, but alas that was the time Taylor and I began our endeavors on Friday. Ken had been beat mapping our scratch tracks from Monday so Friday we went in to make sure everything was exactly the way we wanted it. I wish I had some photos of the drive over, because the sun over the bridge to Redmond was beautiful! Instead, here are some more photos of our scratch track recording session. There’s always so many cool shots of Joe.

Since Friday, Ken has been putting the last finishing touches on the scratch tracks so they are nice and shiny for Joe to record over tomorrow! Another early ass morning awaits us. Oh, and my computer died Friday night, when I was originally writing this blog, so the video footage will be delayed yet again. My sincerest apologies to anyone actually waiting for that.

God luck and good speed!

– Brian

Listening to: Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamonds

So for those who may have noticed, as soon as we were ready to unveil our new temporary studio blog, we pull a massive fail and crashed our little corner of the internet. Go figure. Anyway, after a few days of troubleshooting and pulling out hair, it’s back up now, and hopefully for good. Here’s what’s up.

On Monday Feb 1st, we destroyed our website and then entered the barn to record scratch track demos. These will be the groundwork to structure the sessions for all the songs. We were excited to be recording with Chris Proff again, and more so to have added Ken Lapworth to the team of awesomeness. 8 hours, a dozen smoke breaks, and 1 Jack In The Box run later, we had our first real listen-able version of the album. We tracked everything live, and even in these rough drafts everything is already beginning to sound incredible. Phase one completed, now we wait while Ken prepares these sessions for us to record our real takes over.

Here are some photos of the process:

We’ll have some video footage of us at the barn ready soon, probably by tomorrow. Right now, we’re about to drop off some promotional samplers around town for our show at the Sunset Tavern on Wednesday. See you soon!

– Brian

Listening to: Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
Reading: Sun Tzu – The Art of War

In a handful of hours we will begin the recording process on our next record, currently untitled. It is the summation of the time spent discovering ourselves and each other since the Keep The Beat Alive EP. We will be heavily documenting this next month and posting regular updates here daily.

Gear is all packed up. I should get some sleep.

-Mark