Fundamental Elements

in the studio (3.5.2008)

fundamental elements March 5th, 2008
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Today is our third day in the studio this week. Enjoy the boredom hilarity.

• 7:00am We wake up to find that our blog has been hacked by our wives (and girlfriend). Luke thinks that this will severely hinder our sales to the single female population. We will have our revenge (after we find some thunderstorms to rock out to). NOTE: The band wives (and girlfriend) formed a “club” of sorts back in the day. They call themselves the “Fundies Undies.” And yes, after the blog hack-job, they are very happy with themselves. Nice, ladies…
• 8:59am Luke, Mark, and Joe are back in the studio. Russ and Dustin went on a grocery run so we don’t end up spending more in food this week than we do on the record. We’re about to start a new song today, so the DeJaynes brothers can stop whining about not playing.
• 9:37am D-Base and Russ are back from the store and scored some great deals. They are now best friends.
• 9:58am Luke and Stephen have drum sounds set, the rest of the band is getting set up, and we’re getting ready to start tracking as a band (finally).
• 11:44am Things are finally rockin’ in Yackland studios. Band tracks are laid down and Stephen is editing drums to make sure that everything is wicked tight before we start re-tracking other instrument parts. [P.S. Luke was so rusty from all the time off that he busted his hand on one of his cymbals...let's hope it doesn't affect his performance this week.]
• 12:41pm Still editing drums. Apparently Luke isn’t as good as he thought he was. Dustin is rehearsing keyboard parts for other songs in his area of the room (aka north of the Mason/Dustin line). Russ is working on some design projects. Mark is iChatting away. Joe just learned that Slipknot is from Des Moines, IA.
• 1:25pm I’m gonna go grab some lunch…I’m tired of listening to drums. In the mean time, here is a cartoon of what Luke’s (and Mark’s) day was like the last two days (via garfield minus garfield):
• 2:17pm Back to work. We were doing bass tracks, but that got derailed by keyboard editing, which got derailed by more drum editing. Luke’s such an attention whore.
• 2:56pm Dustin just finished tracking some keyboard parts and we’re back to Mark playing bass. That’s right…6 hours in to day 3 and Mark’s finally doing something that will actually show up on the record. Luke is trying to barter from his collection of guitar picks for one of Stephen’s custom string shattering picks.
• 3:52pm Bass for the track is done, and it seems that Joe’s scratch guitar tracks were magical. He’s a funk machine on the “wah” pedal, apparently. The new tune is coming together nicely. BTW, the tune we’re working on is “Comfortable.” We’ve only played it live once… 2 weeks ago in Memphis.
• 5:09pm “Taking 5″ to rest our ears. Joe’s tuning up another guitar for another round of laying down guitar parts. This song is taking shape and looks to be the most “rockin’” tune on the album.
• 5:59pm Finally posting yesterday’s video footage. More confessions and an appearance from Simon Gugala. (And yes, we’re aware that it says “Monday, March 4″instead of “Tuesday.” We’ve got more important stuff to do than fix that, so deal…)

• 6:50pm We’ve spent the last hour working on some extra programming and drum loops… that’s what we call “sweetening,” which, as Mitch Hedberg would say, is “a music industry term for ‘add sugar to.’”
• 7:17pm Stephen has to pack it up early tonight (weak) so we’re callin’ it quits. Quite a productive day which is just what the doctor ordered.