Great session tonight.
Tonight was the first of the 'Beards' sessions since joining forces with Student Run Records. The previous sessions related to 'Beards' have been scrapped in favor of the professionals at IPR producing and tracking us. Furthermore, this is our first venture with our new bassist, Dillon Marchus.
Eddie Ciletti, IPR's resident analog wizard and mad scientist, had expressed interest in working with us. And we, who have worked with Eddie before, were interested in working with him again and tracking to tape, instead of digital as we normally have done.
Eddie was particularly interested in producing "Destiny, She Drives a Rolls," but we were told to bring two more songs in that we felt Eddie would do well with. We chose "Handlebar Mustache" and "Give Yourself."
Long story short, this session was great. We did a lot of good work. We spent most of the session on "Destiny" and moved on to "Handlebar." After those, it was late and we were tired, but we decided to run through "Give Yourself" a couple times. And awesomely, the second take nailed it. We got basic tracks for all three songs done tonight and overdubs will start next week.
The sounds Eddie got were great. It sounds really warm, rich and old school. Dillon and I discussed how we kind of wished that Eddie was doing the whole record. But don't take that too seriously. We're very excited to work with the other producers as well. It's always good to get multiple points of view.
We're off to a good start. Dillon is an amazing bassist. He's going to work out just fine. The album is going to sound gooood. You're going to like it, I know.
More to come...
[We did a fly-on-the-wall webcast of the session. You can watch it on Ustream if you feel so inclined. A few cool things happened.]
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