Kids,

I'm back......Yay!

Seriously, I'm sorry I delivered none of the promised recording updates, but there was just no time. Of course, now I have nothing but time, so here goes:

Wednesday

So we packed up the rock van and headed for the big apple with stars in our eyes and a dream in our hearts. When we got to New York, we met up with uber-producer Mike Daly and made our way to a practice studio to get in a little pre-production.

Now people, it's almost hard to practice in NYC, since the rehearsal spaces are set up in a completely different way than we (i.e. poor schmucks with lousy jobs) are used to. Unlike our basement, these practice spaces come fully equipped. That way, you don't have to lug all your very heavy gear all over creation, which is great. The only problem with this arrangement is that there ends up being a million expensive new toys for you to play with which, how do you say....can limit focus. Oh well.

Anyway, we got the tracks in order over the course of three arduous and wank-filled hours and then went our separate ways. Gordon and I headed to super engineer Tim Bright's place, where we got thoroughly trashed on his uncle's beer, watched Old School and then passed out on an air mattress. As days of preparation for a recording go, this was a pretty darn good one.

Tomorrow - Thursday (first day of recording!)....