black and white
...not as in the po-lice are after us, but a tale of two stages, so to speak.
Saturday we were in the studio all day, and Colin and I laid down all the drum and bass tracks for our new CD. Playing in the studio is completely and utterly different than playing live....playing live, you feed off the crowd's energy, the lights, the sound /PA system, the adrenaline....in the studio, none of that is there. All it is, is you, your guitar/drums/microphone, headphones, and a recording device that is unforgiving. Every single mis-fret, mistake, out-of-tune note...all gets caught. You have to be dead-on perfect as you can be...like the first song Colin and I recorded is a song we know extremely well. We must have played it in practice or live a few hundred times. And yet there I was, heart racing and saying to myself "ohgodpleasedon'tbotchthis" as we recorded. And you know what? I totally screwed up in the same spot three times in a row. Fantastic! So then you have to go back and record it again and again to get it right. And then when you do finally get it right, it's almost this sense of relief, like "holy @#$% I'm glad that's over, take that you stupid microphone!"
And then we turned around, after a full day of studio work and rock out like madmonkeys at the Firewater Saturday night....it was just a really cool vibe, with all the different bands that were there, the fashion show, and then getting to play. We just went nuts playing and put on our sparkly shiny rockstar shoes (we beat up some of the models and stole their shoes) and tore it up. The crowd was great and stuck around late into the evening to see and hang out with us....much props to everyone who came out, or drove all the way from various places (like the FALLS!) to come see us, you rock. Good times alllllll around.
But it was just kinda odd or funny to go from one extreme, as far as playing atmosphere, to the other back-to-back. I definitely like playing live better, and I think the other guys would agree...not to mention drinking Jaeger in the studio is probably not a good thing, haha, so the live playing definitely has a leg up in that department...
so another weekend down, many more to go....someone better warn Click's in Tyler to restock on their Jaeger, 'cause we are a-coming to town....
Saturday we were in the studio all day, and Colin and I laid down all the drum and bass tracks for our new CD. Playing in the studio is completely and utterly different than playing live....playing live, you feed off the crowd's energy, the lights, the sound /PA system, the adrenaline....in the studio, none of that is there. All it is, is you, your guitar/drums/microphone, headphones, and a recording device that is unforgiving. Every single mis-fret, mistake, out-of-tune note...all gets caught. You have to be dead-on perfect as you can be...like the first song Colin and I recorded is a song we know extremely well. We must have played it in practice or live a few hundred times. And yet there I was, heart racing and saying to myself "ohgodpleasedon'tbotchthis" as we recorded. And you know what? I totally screwed up in the same spot three times in a row. Fantastic! So then you have to go back and record it again and again to get it right. And then when you do finally get it right, it's almost this sense of relief, like "holy @#$% I'm glad that's over, take that you stupid microphone!"
And then we turned around, after a full day of studio work and rock out like madmonkeys at the Firewater Saturday night....it was just a really cool vibe, with all the different bands that were there, the fashion show, and then getting to play. We just went nuts playing and put on our sparkly shiny rockstar shoes (we beat up some of the models and stole their shoes) and tore it up. The crowd was great and stuck around late into the evening to see and hang out with us....much props to everyone who came out, or drove all the way from various places (like the FALLS!) to come see us, you rock. Good times alllllll around.
But it was just kinda odd or funny to go from one extreme, as far as playing atmosphere, to the other back-to-back. I definitely like playing live better, and I think the other guys would agree...not to mention drinking Jaeger in the studio is probably not a good thing, haha, so the live playing definitely has a leg up in that department...
so another weekend down, many more to go....someone better warn Click's in Tyler to restock on their Jaeger, 'cause we are a-coming to town....
posted by Keith at 8:22 AM
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