January 5, 2013

Stressed out as I have admittedly been the last month or so, most of my distress has been self inflicted by bad budgeting or overly optimisitic scheduling. Until today most …

January 4, 2013

Not working that extra hour, or hour and a half, last night meant that Mark Miller and I both arrived early and significantly less exhausted than had become the norm. …

January 4, 2013

My younger son Frank is 14 today. I get up early to make English pancakes (thinner, more like crepes) and sit a while as he opens presents. But I’m exhausted. …

January 4, 2013

So we didn’t actually record anything yesterday but we figured out lots of things that didn’t work… that is progress. Today I was supposed to rest but I’m in the …

January 4, 2013

That’s right. It’s Jan 1st 2013 and we’re in the studio for a half day. The deadline is looming. Today Will and I look at Myrtle & Rose – the …

December 31, 2012

I can’t remember the last time I spent 3 consecutive days on guitars for one song, but here we are again attempting to put Opposite’s Day to bed…

December 30, 2012

I should be having a weekend off but the Opposite’s Day sessions have taken longer than budgeted, so I’m up here in my attic syncing the laptop with my Modular …

December 27, 2012

Will is home for the holidays and I have him for half a down studio sessions. We are late getting started today thank to New England weather. We had 8 …

December 27, 2012

10 hours working on the same song and I still don’t hate it. I guess I’ll take that as a positive…
This song is tricky. The stupid ones always are. It’s …

December 27, 2012

The first half of the day was spent in the Establishment playing around with the string/keyboard ideas for Myrtle and Wine.
The second half trying to figure how how to approach …