Did yet another overnighter in the studio last night, sneaking in around 10 PM after Dave’s session was over so that I could mix Deep Snapper’s new LP. We started tracking last weekend, giving ourselves three days to record and mix 12 songs. As is often the case, we got behind schedule and had to find a gap, however brief and ill-timed, in the studio’s calendar to finish up. We started at 10 PM and the band was out the door, master tapes in hand, by 9:15 AM. Rather than drive through a dense fog (”throoough a dense fawg”, as Complete would say), I crashed in the studio apartment for a few hours.

Mastering for Shearwater’s Rook LP was last Friday at Sterling Sound with Greg Calbi. Jonathan offered to fly me up, but I felt it best to stick around Texas and catch up on housework and hang out with the wife. Apparently it went well — the band and label are happy — and the masters required very little in the way of rescuing. I’m going to wait until the vinyl is in my hands before listening, though — after months peering at this record through a microscope, I need a break. I’ll try and write another follow-up post on this album by the time it hits the street.

Starting this weekend, I’m recording a new LP for The Great Tyrant, then afterward finishing up American Werewolf Academy’s new one. Come March, Bubba and I will be finishing up the new New Year LP, and there’s lots of potential stuff, unconfirmed as of yet, on the horizon past that. It’s looking to be a good year for me, studio-wise.

Tre Orsi will have a busy spring: we’re playing shows in February with Nina Nastasia (Ft. Worth and Austin) and Joe Lally (Denton), then a 5-date run through the Midwest with Minus Story and the Coke Dares in April, followed by more recording. For those with an interest, we keep up with such things on the Tre Orsi web site.