Glorious 2-track

We again elisted Billy to help us out with more recording and he gladly accepted. This time the tapes at least have Bryn's guitar on them but overload somewhat when the vocals come in. Ah, the trials and tribulations of glorious 2-track! Anyway, we put down a better version of "Windward Mark", two takes of "Shipwreck" that have my ears still ringing, two takes of "Wayfaring Stranger", multiple attempts at "You Let Me Fall" that didn't get off the ground, and then just for shits powered right through a few Mojo Wire tunes as well- "Shivering Sand", "One Last Hallelujah", and "Heart On A Platter". Not as many tunes were tried this time, but we'll get to that soon, as well as getting the best stuff from these tapes up here as well. I'll letcha know.

I'm Stupid

Drummer Billy Fedderson helped us out with recording last week, but unfortunately I forgot to flick a few switches and we only got drum, bass and Brian's guitar down for all tracks attempted. We'd wired 2 4-tracks together and I thought I was being cool and clever, but apparently my recording engineering class isn't paying off yet. Kinda like when I flubbed the Mojo Wire's show at Giovanni's last year. We'll try it again this week, but won't worry so much about perfect takes. I've also finished mixing on some of Bryn's demos that he's made, and once I crunch those to mp3 they'll be up on the sounds page. Same goes for the 2 tunes already listed there- the full set will be "Windward Mark", "Wayfaring Stranger", "Run From Me", "I Fly Free”, and "You Let Me Fall".

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That's it—I'm tired of this anonymous carpet-bombing crap in comments. It was funny for a while, but now it's not—39 comments on March 2 alone, or 18 total on this (three year old!) post alone, by allegedly different people? Sorry, but I'm not interested in this blog becoming something like that.

Furthermore, I'm thinking about deleting some of those comments. Not all gonzo is "good" gonzo, children.

Wayfaring Stranger

No, Bryn's not trying to pull a Dave Grohl-Foo Fighters-esque "drummers sing too!" thing, see, cause yonks and yonks ago he used to be the guitarist in the Mojo Wire. Teaming up with guitarist Brian Wolff, helped out by Keir on bass, Bryn's currently looking for a drummer to complete the lineup. Odds are the group sound will be focusing on the Big Rock Music, with lots of wide open space (Bryn loves surf guitar), but then again one of our favorite tunes to play right now is a slow Johnny Cash tune, so go figure. We'll sure let you know if things work out.