on drums–whichever comes first), having conveniently missed loading most of the equipment much earlier that morning. Got picked up at about 10:30 AM by roadie Joe (who will be working for us in the studio up until we mix or he goes on tour w/Love Battery–featuring Mike M. to see “Wings of Desire” at the Varsity, I made sure to see the midnight showing of “Police Story III: Supercop” that night at midnight even though I knew I had a big day ahead. Indeed, I was so bummed we ended rehearsal (priorities, Ken) too late on Fri. After night #1 Nick & I went to see “The Last Seduction”, having discovered a mutual addiction to cinema. It really clarifies the things that each song is trying (or failing) to achieve. If only we’d spent this kind of time rehearsing with our other producers, I can’t believe every producer doesn’t require it. But I think this was the most valuable time we have ever spent making a record.
Some of the songs changed radically, some seemed fine the way they were. Spent several hours a day in our rehearsal space playing most of the songs and exploring things we can do with/to them.
I think we were supposed to talk about the record we were gonna be working on for the next month or two, but we ended up comparing Brian, Jon and Nick’s little psuedo-computer personal organizer things. Nick Launay arrived from LA, where he was working on another project, on Tuesday, came straight to my place, and we all went out to dinner.
I know that it might kill some of the surprise, but I think the sound and music will do that effectively enough… I’m sorry (IRONY: because actually I’m happy) to say there’s no Jim Morrison/willing babe #5873 vocal booth antics or any ritual goat slaughtering but we are making the music that goes on the records that give this list much fat to chew, so in the interests of killing the mystique of rock for good I’ll continue on. I thought it might be useful to give a weekly play-by-play of our LP making, since most people seem to have some at least slightly media-distorted views on what actually goes on in there.
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