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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Snares 1-8
Ernest Shackleton was an English arctic explorer in the early 1900′s and led perhaps the greatest and most adventurous expedition of modern arctic exploration in 1914 when his ship The Endurance left with a crew of 28 bound for Antarctica. Over several years time their ship was frozen into the ice, the were separated, left [...]
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From 4 To 2
It’s Saturday evening in Nashville and I’m resting up my voice tonight and tomorrow now that we’ve started cutting vocals. We’ve only had 3 days off in the past 3 weeks of work and I really need this time. Fighting off a cold as best I can, trying to stay upbeat and hopeful that I’ll [...]
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Pete Luke + Dave
Downstairs in the Elvis hangout room. Pete passed out on the API desk.
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Shadow Boxing
It was an awesome day. Management and my label came into town. All cool. We’ve been shooting polaroids and laughing our faces off at Pete who has been in rare form. Thad Cockrell was playing tonight and my buddy Court Clement was playing guitar for him. I ran down late night after tracking, but just [...]
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The Oatmeal Has Been Thrown Down By Wilder
We worked super hard today and cut another couple huge songs, Every War and Let It Go. Funnest part of the day for me occured on the later when I got to play bass thru an old analog mono synth, tracking it as my main instrument. Wilder’s bass playing sounded like a lead guitar. Pete [...]
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The Eagle And The Tree
Its as cold as it gets in the winter down south. Cold and clear, the first day I’ve slept in during this record. Yesterday we recording Space Between The Lines, a song I wrote with my friend and mentor Tim O’Brien and also When The Pieces Come Together. Anyways, we worked ourselves to the limit [...]
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The End Of Week One
CuttingLiveTo2InchTapeAPI DeskMPCDrumMachinesPicturesAndSound
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Different Paths Thru The Same Maze
It’s snowing outside the studio in Nashville and we’ve been cranking hard all day. The wooden floors have been walked over for decades in this house. Most of the doors are open and a spiral staircase leads downstairs into a room where we keep coffee beans and a backup Omni Chord. Winter is my favorite [...]
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Pre Production Is Over
Tonight marked the end of our week of preproduction. Tomorrow we have a day off to regroup before sending the boats out into another ocean. All in all we picked our final list of songs (Though I felt something new kick my ass sideways out of left field tonight on the drive home, could hardly [...]
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Forever One Hundred Everything
It was another big day in the studio, pouring thru lyric after lyric, sitting behind heaps of old instruments, watching hurricane winds blow rain sideways, tornado alarms going off all afternoon. The past week has been strictly dedicated to arranging and reworking the songs. Today we worked thru 100 Directions, Everything Leaves A Mark & [...]
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It’s Official
It’s official! The Pictures And Sound blog is up and running. After working for 2 years, 2 months and 8 days on the songs I’m proud to say that we’ve started recording an album. Over the next two months I’ll be in Nashville with Pete + Dave along with Jacquire King producing. I promise to [...]
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Winter