I can’t believe it, but after tons and tons of delays, drums for the 2nd EP are finished. Cory Prough picked his three favorite demos and played drums on them, and I’ll never be able to thank him enough. He really had fun on those songs and you can tell. Cory’s schedule filled up in a hurry though and had to take his leave, but thank goodness I found a drummer not only for the remaining songs but for live shows. Jim O’Kane did a helluva job on two songs (one of which he started work on the day we met, and it wasn’t an easy song) and really just… oh you’ll like him. A lot. Then Jim went missing and I thought he was dead, so I played drums on the final track on the EP myself. I guess it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t play everything on at least one song, right?
And just like that, the drums were done as of yesterday.
Now the workaholic schedule resumes. I did two bass tracks and two guitar tracks today, which means that the bass for this EP is also finished. What does this mean?
It means that there’s only one guitar track left to record and then I need to get to work writing lyrics. I plan on doing all of the vocals in one chunk as well (working on only drums, only bass, only guitar means that each instrument will be recorded and performed somewhat consistently) and I wasn’t really in a lyric-writing mood. Now I have to be. Don’t worry, it’s like … it’s like a really draining superpower that’s hard to turn off. I know that once I start writing lyrics I won’t be able to concentrate on anything else or sleep anymore; it’s a beast I’m loath to awaken.
But if I gotta, I gotta.
And I’ll finally be able to stop calling these songs “Song 1, Song 2, Song 5″ etc…