Another weekend gone by. I’m amazed by everyone’s focus on this project. We’re on schedule, possibly ahead, we get 2 days off, the weather is gorgeous and none of us have any desire to leave The Glade unless its for more food, candy and/or beer. If you’ve ever seen the Chili Peppers’ doc, ‘Funky Monks’ (documenting the recording of Blood Sugar Sex Magik), well thats been pretty much the vibe here so far. We get up around 10:30am, make the 5 minute walk to the studio for 11, record for about 10 hours and then retire back to The Glade where we drink until we’re dry or unconscious, work out parts for the next day and then wake up and do it all over again. Our world is us right now and I have to say, I’ve never needed so little in my life to make me happy. This is the kind of atmosphere that creates beautiful music and that’s my kind of atmosphere…
In another mission to Purley, we raided the local Blockbuster’s cheap bins and amassed a small DVD collection of horrible, yet somehow entertaining movies. Last night we watched ‘Grandma’s Boy’, tonite it looks like ‘Brother’s Solomon’, some Will Arnet film I’ve never heard of. I got a membership so once we pillage the bins, I guess we’ll begin to work our way across the “New Release’s” wall.
I’ve got to say as well that the studio diet is working wonders for me. It consists of waking up, eating some yogurt and fruit, then hitting the studio where I drink tons of water but eat nothing until dinner which is usually at around 7pm. When I’m not laying down parts I spend my studio downtime reading, listening to tunes and shooting hoops. Yes, we have a basketball court within feet of the studio. Nothing better than that and the studio diet approves! We don’t get back until after 10 (usually also following a quick dip in the pool), where the diet falters due to beer consumption and snacking, but I did that all before anyways so its not like it doesn’t balance itself out. All in all I feel pretty good. No bad hangovers yet so I must be kinda behaving.
Tomorrow I’m hoping to lay all of the rest of my rhythm parts. I think there’s 8 songs to do still. We’ll see how it goes. My incentive is that Gregg, our engineer, is off on Tuesday and Wednesday to finish off his sessions with Gary Moore, yes THE Gary Moore. So a) I don’t want to be waiting to finish them and, on the same note, b) the 2 days off will feel 10X better if I know they’re done. Good luck to me…
