The Blue Wires

The recording process is moving along, albeit at the break neck speed of a turtle, but it’s moving along. Yesterday Jason came over and laid down some funky bass parts. By funky I mean pretty straightforward rock bass parts, so there really isn’t a lot of ‘funk’ hanging out there, but I couldn’t think of a better single word to describe the tracks.

He came and nailed Like You’re A Mouse in 1 1/2 takes! From there we moved on to Go Love Yourself and the eventually on to Yellow Star. That’s where things got a bit tricky. For a pretty simple, straightforward song, it so far has seemed to elude those who have tried to record it.

The first travesty was with my demo scratch track. How my playing could be that far out of time, I will never know! I ended up laying down a simple, and quantized to all hell, keyboard part just so Kevin could play his drum tracks. Then it took Kevin a few takes more then the others to finally get what he wanted out of the drum tracks.

And then there was the bass part. Jason, who nailed the other two songs in just a couple of kick ass takes, struggled with Yellow Star. We went section by section, but we were eventually successful in getting a really rocking track.

I’ve spent the day editing the bass parts together to form one super take for each song. Now they are stronger and more rocking then before.

Up next, yours truly has to start recording his parts. It’s so much easier for me to sit back, press record, and criticize others playing. Now I have to be the one under the microscope. Not fun. The only good news is that I can do the parts without anyone else around. Which is great because I can spare others the torment of my guitar playing. Unfortunately, I probably won’t able to do that when my vocals come around. But that’s a post for another time.