Thanks to Tim Midgett.
Passover is soon, and Katey’s whole family is coming into town. She’s been cleaning and organizing like crazy, and I finally got the garden started. Very much looking forward to it.
Recorded the band Deep Snapper this past weekend, which was great fun. Their drummer is a grill-meister, and kept us well-fed. Was also my first session on the new Studer A827 24-track, which I loved more than life itself. I also got to try out the new Audio-Technica ATM450 mics, which are awesome. For less than $200, I get all the functionality of the excellent Josephson e22s, but for 1/10th the cost. Thanks, AT!
Tre Orsi shows w/ the Pig went ok, though we’re sick to death of the older songs. Will record our 7″ next month bust. After that, it’s off on a two-week jaunt w/ John Vanderslice.
Random links that made me happy today:
From the early 1980’s, a surprisingly non-alarmist WFAA piece on the Dallas punk scene. (Thanks to Good Music for Bad, Bad Times!)
San Francisco To Ban Plastic Shopping Bags (via Treehugger):
It looks like the supervisors acted after becoming frustrated with the California Grocers Association inability to voluntarily reign in the volume of bags they gave away, estimated at 180 million plastic bags last year.
High Tension Wires, “The Clear Is Coast”:
Man alive, I love Law and Order:
I’ve recorded a bunch of stuff for the band American Werewolf Academy and their predecessor, Robot Monster Weekend. I’m a big fan of both bands, and I wish more people knew about them.
Here’s a video they made that they finally uploaded to YouTube:
Whew.
Put it about 70 hours at UNT in the past week, including two overnight stretches. There’s more to come this week, I’m sure, as I slept all day yesterday to recoup and am now a day behind.
Also managed to record a few songs for Ft. Worth-based doom/sludge metal band, Four Days to Burn. They’re the first real metal band I’ve recorded in a long time, very much in the Southern Lord vein, with two singers, one growling, the other screaming. So much guitar, these guys! Very simple setup on this one: guitars and bass together in the iso room. MD421’s on the guitars, an M88 and KSM141 on the bass. D112 on the kick, SM57 on the snare (!!!), double-mic’ed toms, spaced KM84’s pretty high overhead, and TC40k’s on the floor, delayed 22ms. Vocals were the SM7 and a distressor. We tracked 7 songs and mixed two of those for a 7″ on the Dada Drumming label, who are also supposed to release a Great Tyrant 7″. I suppose I’ll be recording that as well.
Received a letter from Touch and Go today with details re: the 25th anniversary thing. They’re so organized, honest, etc — just so damned admirable.
More practice this week, then a session starting on Sunday. After that, sleep, I hope!
Via Denton ex-pat, Lani: The Monks on Beat Club, 1966.