I want to first thank the very cheap & very shitty Whitehouse Motel for housing me last Friday night. They were kind enough to allow me to smoke in a "no smoking" room & for that I'm grateful. I also want to thank the guy who would not accept my debt card, but was glad to drive me to a nearby Bank of America in order to avoid some fees. It was a good time.
After waking from a horribly useless attempt to sleep @ the motel Friday night, I sludged my way to pick up my girl from a party she was @ in North Plainfield. This was then followed by another long haul back to Pennsylvania. It was tough, but I did it. I pretty much slept my entire afternoon away, which for some reason made matters worse. I still felt like a complete zombie. I somehow managed to get up in time to leave for the studio to meet up with Gumshu. That drive wasn't as bad & my Radiohead mix seemed to make time fly.
I forget what time I got to the studio, I think it was a little after 10pm. I was really excited for the night after the past mishaps we've experienced in the last couple weeks. Both Gum & I have been noodling around with ideas & we couldn't wait to properly jam some shit out. When we got in the studio I had to suck down a few of my new organic cigarettes before getting started. I had to smoke in the kitchen cause I guess a lot of people are trying to quit @ Bennett now. Quitting is too hard for me. Especially now. Anyway, I did what I needed do while Gum got some stuff set up.
This time around Gum & I set up in a different room than last time. It had a little more space & felt perfect for what we were gonna do. We chilled with Al in the mixing room for a little bit before we got started. He was mixing some Latin rap shit or something. Cool guy. We kept things kind of basic. I had my Fender that we ran through a Big Muff, tremolo, & a flange pedal. Gum hooked up a Motif & this other keyboard that I forget the name of. Last minute we decided to set up a drum kit to mess around with.
The jam went good. We started on the song we've been working on the most first. Gum was playing keys & I was on guitar. We're still working out the tempo, but I'm really digging the chord progression & we figured out our parts a little more. I changed the way I play my part a little bit & I thought of some cool effects I wanna add come record time. There are still kinks to work out, but I think the song is coming along.
We then moved on to this guitar part Gum started kicking a week ago. He had sent me a snippet of what he recorded over the phone & told me the chords a few days back. I took what I had & added some stuff myself. Turns out we had two different interpretations of the song, which kinda worked for us. We each put our own spin on the idea & it's turning into a pretty trippy tune. After I jammed out the part on guitar & Gum on keys for a bit, I wanted to move to drums. Gum kept the chords going on the keyboard & I banged out a beat. I kinda liked the beat I worked out. It was all choppy & offbeat but worked with Gum's rhythm.
Somehow me being on drums morphed into a random jam. It was fun but I'm not sure if we'll remember what we played. Fun nonetheless. This was followed by a return to more structure. At that point we went back to working out the first song again for a few.
Before the night came to a close, Gum hopped on the drums & I held down guitar duties. We actually jammed out this cool ass tune that I really wanna work on more & keep. I think it can be really interesting. It's like this post-punk jazz joint. I only say that cause it had this experimental punk energy to it & I happen to be knocking out some fuzzed-out jazz chords. I really enjoyed playing it though. I'm looking forward to embellishing it & really fucking it up.
Over all it was a successful session. There's a lot more I could of talked about but I'm way to tired to even try. I will add that I avoided any police contact this time around, so that's a double plus. We plan on getting back in the studio some time next week to continue writing. Til then, bring on the noodles.
PS. I think people are gonna really like this band.
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