The rain came pouring down tonight in battle with the day’s 90 °F temperature, (that’s 32 °C). The rain pummelled the roof as we were trying to record Olivia’s violin. Earlier in the day we had the gardeners mowing the lawn with their great chugging machines and worst of all the ubiquitous leaf blower. The microphone that records the organic instruments has been known to pick up the sound of the mosquito sucking the blood out of your veins or a lone feather falling from a sparrow, the shake of the squirrel’s bushy tail or the flap of a butterfly wing.
Thanks to Sarah, the day started in the heat with a trip to Tone Shop Guitars to pick up a guitar case for my Gretsch. They know us well there and Tommy the owner took my guitar to his luthier in the back unprompted and had him straighten the neck, fix the intonation and lower the action, that’s service that I didn’t even know I needed. He also showed me his 1966 Fender 12-string which he said I could use next time I make a record of my own. He had a nice sixties Rickenbacker 6-string too with the Rose Morris f-hole. I wonder where my stolen Rose Morris Rick 12 is tonight, more than three decades after I lost it.
It was exciting to take a little bit of a trip in the car beyond the accom and the studio, I rarely get out when I’m here, and I was happy to be hitting the highway to the northwest of the city where the shop is located. Such a great bunch of people there, showing me guitars and fixing things. We got to the studio after 1 PM and worked on drum ideas for the mystery record with John. We had to get the drums set up again after breaking everything down from Jason’s kit as he goes off to play with The Polyphonic Spree and setting up for John not just for the mystery record but also for the arrival of sessioneer Rajan from Brooklyn tomorrow. I’m sure Rajan will be happy to get out of New York with the conditions there at the moment due to the Canadian wildfires and the winds taking the smoke to the city.
Later engineer Kevin arrived, and we continued to work on the strings for Brian’s record, sorting out violin parts, editing, recording, arranging, and sorting out how they work with the rest of the music already recorded. It has taken a while, and we will continue with this tomorrow evening. Between projects, I managed to get hold of piano Rich to get him for the Rajan project, Rajan himself in the smoke and friend and cool contributor to the In Deep Music Archive, Kevin K. Thank you, Kevin, progress is being made.
In the event of the loss of one of my favourite artists, guitarist/singer-songwriter Tony McPhee, today’s Music Of The Daze has been The Groundhogs‘ Who Will Save The World (1972). I love a lot of their records, and oddly I had it on 8-track tape as my dad had an 8-track player in his car and he occasionally let me play this in between Shirley Bassey and Nana Mouskouri. RIP Tony, see the other In Deep posts:
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