Wow, this is our last week in studio; in hindsight the past three weeks have flown by at an insane rate; all drums, bass and rhythm guitars are in the bag, so Lez was flown in on Sunday evening to start vocals on Monday. We started out with what’s probably the most challenging song vocally, a power ballad called “Inside Out”. Once that was nailed, Travers and myself set about laying down some acoustic tracks to flesh out two of the songs. Tuesday was much more productive; Lez put down some amazing vocal tracks for “Something To Say” and “Run”, after which I took on my guitar solo for “Maybe It’s Me”, which is now a bit shorter but still nice and punchy; it took me a couple of hundred takes but the end result is niiice! Much to our horror we discovered that some of the rhythm guitar tracks were slightly out of tune on “Maybe It’s Me” right after Lez laid down the vocal tracks, due to the lighter strings we’d put on Travers’ guitar. So after a quick re-string, we had to waste about an hour and a half redoing these parts, but it was well worth it because the takes we got out in the end were AWESOME!! We ended off the day doing some vocal harmonies for “Run”, which was a lot of fun and a good couple of laughs…I was even chased out of he vocal booth at one stage, but after about fifteen minutes of nursing a bruised ego I decided to give it another shot and laid down some decent Def Leppard-esque harmonies on top of the uber-kickass ones Theo had sung (the guy has a phenomenal ear for harmonies!). We stumbled out of the studio just before 11pm and then proceeded to get horribly lost due to road closures and a GPS faux pas (don’t even ask…).

Today we spent some time doing the vocals for “Fuelled”, “Lift Me Up” and “Theory” and Travers knocked out a killer guitar solo for “Fuelled” right after I laid down the lead-rhythm part, after which the lead riff and guitar solo for “Something To Say” was tackled and thrown in the bag. It was another long day so we decided to head to the nearest pub that the GPS could pick up for a cold one or two and ended up at a dodgy little place that looked like it was frequented by AWB types…scary shit! AND we ended up lost AGAIN on the way home thanks to road closures…fun times! We still have loads to do tomorrow and Friday, as these are our last two days, so I’m gonna hit the hay…adios, my hard rockin’ amigos!

Clint

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