1:33 am - Tracking starts tomorrow! We saw the fab Deap Vally again tonight at Hemingway's in Hollywood. 5. Studio day 1 Mond19 Sept 7:33 am Highland Park Peanut butter filled pretzels rock!! Rock n roll breakfast... 8:29 am Another hot sunny day. We start recording today with Josiah at Cave Studio.
10:49 am We’re using the Led Zeppelin drum machine for Black Money 10:59 pm Highland Park. Knackered. But a good day. Basic tracking for 10 songs complete. Vocals and overdubs start tomorrow. 6. Studio day 2 Tues 20 Sept 12:01 pm Back in studio after a massive breakfast at Auntie Em’s in Eagle Rock. Tracking vocals now on Crystal Pistol! 12:41 pm It’s hot in the shitbox today. (what William Reid of Jesus and Mary Chain calls Josiah’s control room. He spends a lot of time there). Lead vocals for Crystal Pistol and Buffalo 1867 now down. Every Dying Breath next. 2:07 pm Listen to basic tracking for Sweden v Poland. It’s immense
4:26 pm All lead vocals tracked. Moving onto bvs and overdubs 4:40 pm Listening to your own vocals in isolation is never that great. Might go for a walk while Josiah does this bit. This was probably the hottest day of the whole week. Sweltering inside and out, so it was good to use the opportunity while Josiah was editing vocals, to get out and about (though there was very little to do in the area - we spent a lot of time back and forth between the studio and the massive, somewhat sketchy, Armenian supermarket up the road to buy cigs, water fruit etc). 6:11 pm Wrapping a bit early today as Josiah has to rehearse with Light FM. They go on tour with Smashing Pumpkins next month. 11:34 pm –Evening ended at Jumbo's Clown Rooms. Pole dancers, not Polish dancers. (Though some of them may have been Polish of course). A cool little pole dancing club in Hollywood, where rockers, bikers, hipsters and dykes hang out. We went there for a late night drink with Alison before heading back to Josiah’s to go to bed. Studio day 3 Weds 21s Sept 9:42 am - Another hot sunny day in LA. To the studio for tracking day 3. 12:15 pm - Cave Studio “go for a pee” vs “‘ave a piss”, innit? 2:38 pm Ten of Clubs sounds like a Cramps / Fall monster 2:46 pm Ten of Clubs is the most extensively reworked song so far.