Brian Bergeron

Make sure to check out the previous blog for pictures from the studio!

9am (or earlier)—Matt arrives at studio to comp drums.
10:30am—I arrive at studio
11:30am—I start re-tracking scratch guitar and vox for most of the songs (not “Hanging Around” and “Sisters)
2:15pm—Max arrives. Takes sounds for “Hanging Around
4:30pm—Finish “Hanging Around”
5pm—Steve starts recording bass for “Have Heart” (I have to leave and go teach a class)
9:30pm—Return to studio and Steve has recorded bass for “Have Heart”, “Anna” and “Let Me In”
12am—Leave studio having finished most of “Sisters” and chatting with Brian Packer and Will about the future of the recordings.

NOTES: Today I had to come to grips with the fact that we aren’t going to get nearly as much done in the studio this week as I had initially hoped (and expected). We wrapped up drums, though we still have to break them down because we didn’t want to make that assumption until Friday morning. Anyhow, we’re a little over a third through the bass and we were hoping to get the bass done by today…c’est la vie. I’m a regimented, scheduled person and I’ve had to learn to let things go. The most important thing is that the record gets done, it’s awesome, and that I am not broke after finishing the record. So, this will all get done in due course. What this means is that we’ll either finish bass today (Friday) and we’ll do guitars for all of Saturday (we had to cancel the keyboardist for the day) or bass will extend into Saturday and we’ll get whatever guitars we can get down on Saturday.

I also don’t think that this record will be done as early as I originally had thought. It might be done for a Christmas-time release date like I had hoped but I don’t know if we’ll be able to do the CD release date in 2008. It’s not a big deal. When it gets done it will be worth it.

That pretty much gets everyone up to speed. My friend Jeff came in yesterday and took some additional pictures during his time off touring with Syd. I invite you all to check out the pictures here. We might clean some up and see what we can do with them.

Be back tomorrow.