In our second day of overdubs, we can see the songs beginning to take shape as we build on the foundation of Miguel's drumming and Matt's bass playing. Mark is battling a cold/allergy thing, so we've decided to get all the guitar and keyboard parts down and save vocals for the last couple days. Two things are becoming clear to us as we're putting the instrumental "meat" on the rythm bones: 1) The rythm section is so huge and groovy that we don't have to overdo instrumentation --they sound big already! Some of these tunes are definitely going to have a "dance around the house" factor. 2) The guitar and keys tones we're capturing are pretty majestic as well. This is definitely a rock album, no apologies. When you lay beautiful melodies over these sounds; well, you get those occasional goosebumps that keep us coming back.
Back to reality -- it's midnight, and this Noon to Midnight (or later) schedule every day is tiring. Matt is laying down the last bass track of the day. We're going to be hard pressed to finish all the tracking in the days we have scheduled. Mark is taking Robitussin shots trying to fend off a cough/cold. My ears are exhausted, and my kids may have forgotten my name by the time they see me again. But . . . these are the challenges that make this exciting. You work hard and invest money and time chasing those magical moments when these songs you've created come together and carry you to some transcendent reality. We think it will be worth the risk . . .
-Tyler
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