Saturday, November 17, 2007

Bad Terrorists at the recording studio

Bob, Bruce and Barry splashed out on a day at the recording studio. They loaded up the drum kit and a selection of Bob's favourite homemade guitars, headed down brook street, turned right at the mini roundabout, over the river with the broken lights, took a right at the next even smaller roundabout, first left, followed by a sharp right past all the kids and the Mums and Dads at 'Rollerworld', the van then trundled under the railway line past Mannicks mechanics to Unit One and here they are...
actually this is the band having a tea break, They did take a break even though Bob was very insistent that all 22 tracks could be recorded by 5pm - Adrian doing the mixing wasn't so sure, 4/5 was more usual he told Bob - so, having set up and got themselves ready they went in to the studio and blasted one track after the next into the mics, only hindered slightly by me tripping over wires and bumping into a mike stand in the middle of Abigail Ybarra take 5. My sister was there as a token audience and statutary groupy and she jiggled away in the corner to her favourite tracks and didn't knock anything over.
Adrian needed to go home at 5 so the set list had to be cut short, but 17 tracks were recorded including a version of 'Maybe Maybe Maybe the McAnns ate their baby' and the best version ever of 'I'm a drummer in a rock n'roll Band', one of Barry's songs.

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