DAY FIVE
Kelly called me yesterday morning saying he was having back pains from moving some heavy stuff, so we had to postpone what we hoped would be our last session together. Today he felt better so we got together and got to work.
There were more drum tracks to fix, so we worked on those for one song and then redid the bass tracks. It went fairly smoothly for four hours and we took a lunch break. We came back and got to work on the very last song, and it took a bit longer than we expected. The original track was good, so we decided to just punch in a few troubling spots. The punches didn't line up with the original track. Then we tried overdubbing bigger sections. Then we decided to rerecord the bass for the whole song, which was what we were doing for the other songs anyway. We were just getting ready when the room went dark. We called the power company and they said they were fixing a problem for the whole neighborhood and the power would be back on in about four hours. Kelly had to be somewhere before then, so we still have one song left unfinished.
We'll be back at it either tomorrow or Thursday. If all goes well Charles and Clay will be starting the rythm overdubs on Saturday. Then the lead guitars. Then we'll all get together for the vocals. Then comes the mixing. Then mixing it down to stereo. Then deciding on the order. Then putting it all on a CD and taking it to the printers. Then CD labels, and the artwork, and then putting it all together. And someday maybe, just maybe, we'll have something to share.
