Recording (Day 1)
Tonight, I’m headed into the studio to begin recording the new E.P.
I’m really not sure how I feel about it yet. One of the drawbacks to having OCD is your inability to always feel like you know you should. So, while I am excited, I don’t feel excited, if that makes any sense.
Who knows, maybe it’s just the fact that I know I’m way past any record contract (they don’t give them to people at my old age…you can’t make the kids happy if you relate more to 6 year olds than 16 year olds…) and so I’m free to relax and just let it happen.
By my side is the unflappable Paul Garner. Paul and I have played together a few times, but we’ve never recorded together. He is a little older than I am, and in the past, Typical Sloan owed many of our first gigs to Patmos, Paul’s insane heavy-hair rock band. (Much love to Derrick, Dave and Dennis as well…) Paul is a great guitarist with more musical talent in his pinky than I have in my whole body.
Paul and I work together now and played together for the first time last year at the request of Beecher, our Company President. It was delightful. Together with The Slinky, Keilor Barr and Gabe Rice, we had a short-lived project called The Good Dream Academy. (r.i.p. or on hiatus? No one knows for sure…) We had a good synergy, and when asked to do a solo show, I asked Paul to accompany me. It was a fantastic night.
At some point, I decided that I’d rather not let any of the new songs I’d been working on disappear, and Paul suggested we head into the studio to lay them down. Paul is a very calm presence in stark contrast to my loud whirlwind of a personality, so I’ll be interested to see what comes out. Paul is a bit of a perfectionist, while I prefer the loose sound of first takes. Paul wants things tight as can be and I find organic mistakes charming.
This will be awesome or horrible. I love it.
(Note: I’ll take some pictures and video as we go to catalog the process. It will be the first time I’ve documented time in the studio. Hmmm.)