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Studio Progress

Just for the record, we are now fully tangled up in cables, wires, and shiny new "do-dads". Oh the good ole days, set levels, push record and yer done. Were trying hard to understand just what the hell these electronic gizmo-thing-a-ma-jigger's will do for us.

More of this. Nice to have fans eh?

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Short Bridge New Lead":

Guys, it's time to call it quits. You're old. You're ugly. You're music is outdated and you have no fanbase.

Your band is completely awful. It is one of the worst bands I have ever heard in my life. The lyrics are incredibly juvenile and pathetic. The guitar playing is unimpressive and unoriginal.

The drumming is some of the crappiest in town.

Sorry.

Album Reviews

...and we quote:

"..........The point is that this album while more artistically interesting, and less formulaic, is not as enjoyable. There are no radio hits, there are no stuck-in-you-mind melodies. But there is a good reason why 95% of the population prefers "radio hits" over avant-garde music: because it's more fun. It's easier to digest, and creates endorphines much faster than "difficult to disassemble" music. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. People who claim that "easy listening" music is "bad" music are full of themselves. Even the cheapest pop, e.g. KeSha, who only seem to be able to sing about getting drunk, attracts listeners because there "are" people who want to get drunk. Music reflects life. When you make music that only reflects yourself and only a few others, well, maybe you want to keep that music for yourself and these few others..."

Guitar Cocktail Lounge Recordings (the project)

Sound files are now here.

New studio is working out great I think.

Whoa, dude.

Something to think about.

Some people think that one can become a buddha through meditation. This is wrong. The potential for Buddhahood is within your own nature. If it were true that Buddhahood depended on meditation, then if you stopped meditating after you became a buddha, you would become a common person again. The objective of practice is to be in accord with the natural way, so that your true nature can manifest itself. Just practice according to the methods taught by the Buddha and do not worry about being a success.

–Master Sheng-Yen

Just another day in paradise.

We know, it's been a long time. We have been working hard on the Corporate T-shirt record and it's due to be released September 18th!!! The mixes are done, now off to mastering. All I can say is we like it. We hope you will to. It's a stressful time around here seeing our baby handed off to the public, we will miss her.

Singer guy from Bullet 2 Black came by and laid down some backing vocals for there song Screaming Freedom. He was late. He got lost. He stayed for 10 minutes. Weird. They want a ton of stuff done for this one song, it will take some time to sort it all out.

Another group Mercy Screams recorded a tune a few weeks ago. The SBS animal contingency was scared to death of these guys! It's headed for a compliation CD due to be released sometime/somewhere. There are 4 bands we recorded for this so far. We are wondering what the future holds for the CD, guess we will see. We are in the 2nd mix revision for these tunes, and should be completed by the end of next week.

We started tracking a new band, Ash and the Standing. Amazing voice Ash has, and the band is just the tops. Really good people, we're hoping we can do them justice. Just watch out for Bongo Fury!! They will be putting out a 6 song something er other soon.

The "actual" SBS guitar cocktail lounge has been making progress as far as an album goes. Bucky Chairsteppin "stepped" in and laid guitar tracks and vocals for a song called "This is my life". Herman from Little Blue Pill has done some vocal work on it as well, and it's turned into a duet of sorts. We would like Clay from Corp. T. to do some vocals on the chorus parts, and Higgs Boson from SBS will be on bass and drums more than likely. Higgs will also be locked in the studio the September 12th and 13th to do the two acoustic guitar only songs going on the album.

Speaking of Higgs, did we introduce him yet?? OK, there he is. Go Higgs, Go.






In other news, Little Blue Pill has a new finished song out, called Short Bridge. Look for it, you will be glad you did. First tune with "Little Drummer Boy Danny". LBP seems to go through drummers like crazy. Wonder why? Well, here are a few:

1. How can you tell when your drummer is at the door?
When the knocking starts, it speeds up, slows down, speeds up..........

2. Why are band breaks only 20 minutes?
So you don't have to retrain the drummer.

They call me Higgs.

Ok, it's been awhile. Were busy. The gatekeeper of all things internet has granted us with a new super-duper hydromatic thing-a-ma-jig so we can broadcast once again. It's so fast I can't think of a darn thing to say.

Now Booking.

It’s a great time to book a session @ SBS! As you can see, Moxy our accountant is once again asleep at the switch leaving Steve in charge so you better hurry and get a great deal!!

Picture this.

Universal Bass Drum Movement Compensator

Yes, on sale now at your favorite guitar center store, only $129.99!!!! The UBDMC-2000!! We got one, why don't you?

I'm back.

Whew! Loud weekend. Friday brought LBP with the new drummer Danny. He's good, I'll post something with him on it somewhere on the Internet soon. Were still without bandwidth, but I found a spot I can drive to and "borrow" it. Worked on some new stuff and some old stuff till the weeeeee hours of the morning.

Saturday Frantic Past dropped by and cut two songs for a soon to be released something or other called "Kombat Kontrol". You can find there page HERE. It's great stuff. You need to check them out! Were all still jammin on it here @ SBS. We hope they decide to stop by again!

Saturday evening, Danny came by and did some tracking for the ever-ongoing-soon-to-be-released widget called..something or other for Little Blue Pill.
It's going great, he's got some of the older tunes and working on replacing the parts from that other dead-beat drummer guy who used to play for them (me...I'm the guitar rock monster guy now.)

Sunday morning saw vocal tracking in the "great room". For our mystery guest. It's best to do that early before all the animals wake up.

Sunday afternoon was mix time for Frantic Past.

Sunday evening 7th Sun hung out and practiced and played and played and played and played and played.....till the inky blackness of the early morning.

Monday we took a break and packed the bus up and went to Richmond. Schedule updates later as we find out just what the hells going on this week.

The 'EPI Bass'' LIVES!

Yes, the EPI has been resurrected. After several hours of 'surgery' last night I think we brought the old girl back to life, and she's chompin at the ampeg to be played once again! Which I did, till 2am. Now she's resting comfortably till Sunday when 7th Sun comes over. This isn't the real 'EPI', just a represenative photo I 'googled'. The real 'EPI' dosen't have a phase switch like this one.

LBP came by Wednesday evening after Ron from 7th Sun did his practicing, and 2 new songs are now in the first stages of being songs, instead of random thoughts. Friday night more of the same, this time with a drummer!

Corporate T is playing a show at the "Grapevine" this evening. Good luck you guys!

That's it for now. I gotta go break up Mr. Hamster and Steve. {AGAIN}

Guitars, Kadielack's and......Mic Placement

Yes sir, I met a dude named Kadielack. The next creature I meet that needs a name gets that name.

Below is the mic placement technique I used to record CTS last night in studio.

Real full, no need to double track this way. I was happy anyway. Phase was not an issue, you'll see. The album (or CD for you kids out there) is coming along great. I'll put up a sample of the guitar sound tomorrow. My thinking was since this amp has one speaker, putting a mic on each side of the speaker should get a little variation of sound if I pan each mic hard left and right. Since the speaker moves in and out I was hopefull it wouldn't move the same on each side with every push. It seemed liked when he picked the strings the speaker moved a little different on each side. This created a very slight chours effect, but more like the parts are doubled, without all the hassell of getting the player to try and play the parts exact 2 times. When he corded the parts the speaker seemed to move the same and no chours effect.

At least that's how my ears heard it last night. Today who knows.....

That's it for now.

No on-ramp to superhighway, from SBS.

The protectors of our Internet gateway decided to fly away and as a result SBS has no connection to the outside world. I have been forced to drop our posts inside a bottle and send Steve to the river to let them (we hope) float to the right blog. If you are getting this post in error we sincerely apologize.
Band happening updates:
Little Blue Pill thinks they found a drummer. Should know more next Friday provided the ENTIRE band shows up…(hint, hint). Clayton is back on guitar (thank God!) This isn’t the LBP blog, so go there to find out. The link is here somewhere. LBP is following me. Or I’m following them……I’m not sure how that works..
7th Sun is still planning world domination, but they aren’t doing much about it right now. I’m told to be patient and just hang on, so I’m trying to do just that.
Misc. SOLO projects:
The 4th song in the series needs lyrics. It goes like: “ Da-de-de-dum-da-da-do-BLEH! “ If you can think of something catchy, give us a ring! I’m sure we can arrange a nice prize for your troubles. (or not) It’s gotta be cool, I just can’t think of anything cool right now.
Studio happenings:
CTS is due in Monday. Guitar parts. Again. More BIGGER BIGGER I want the guitar sound HUGE!!! I tried to get them to just use bigger guitars but that wasn’t the answer. They couldn’t reach the frets.
Tuesday: A lonely day of mixing in the mix room. Just me and the hamster powered mix machine.
Wednesday is 7th Sun drummer practice. Then work on Lottery for LBP. I FOUND the swishy guitar part I was looking for so I’m going to try and make that happen. It involves a donkey, a mouse, a rusty bucket, and some plastic shiny nickerboxers known only to SBS. It’s gonna be cool. Steve is tracking down the donkey as we speak. It’s the elusive musicall don-… oh never mind.
Thursday: Were going to Denny’s. OK were not really, but I can dream can’t I? Nothing so far.

Hampster 'fighting' mad.

Mr. Hampster pictured above was quoted as saying "I'm fighting mad over the lack of posts here at SBS." After punching Steve in the ear he said, "Now get to it!!" Punching Steve in the eye this time he said, "I fight all of you's lazy bit***s!!"

That's one angry rodent!! Too bad for Steve today is Friday.....and the phones are out, and it's not raining, and my car's stuck......and..........Good luck Steve.

New Stuff in a Huff.

It's 10:37pm..... Do you know where you are??? I'm here at the "Brilliante Moreno Soindo" as usual. I need to get out more I guess and see some of the sights I guess.

Update#1 SBS or for are spanish fans, BMS : The Little Blue Pill song An Answer has been remixed and it's mucho calliente!! . It will give you that warm and fuzzy feeling hopefully or not hopefully.

Update#2 Corperate T-Shirt's next song on there soon to be titled album "Perfect" was mixed today. We all here at SBS are humbly awaiting the guys input on the song. OK not Steve, but he's been drinking all afternoon so the dog farting sounds fantastic to him right now. I only threw away 10 CD's this time...I'm getting better I guess. I had this idea for swirling vocals around a center distorted vocal, and was asking Sister Mary Terri why nobody had done that before. She was right, stupid idea....

Update#3 Band night for the band 7th Sun has changed to band DAY! Sundays Noon-3:30 pm. Be there (if your in the band) or be square. Nothing on the recording front just yet. I'm trying to get Leroy out of the 80's still.

That's it for now, get off the computer and go outside! It's nice out!

UPDATE.

'Sister Mother Mary Terri' says I should get go get Steve, and in exchange for some magic beans I traded back from the guy on the hill, along with a power supply, so I set free the hampsters and the wheels.  It's a beautiful thing to see them in the wild, chugging along in those shiny new wheels.  Now it sounds like a 747 is taking off in the mix room when I turn on the new computer.  If you enter, please wear a hair net.

Tonight a re-do of the LBP song "All Wrong" on the drums.  The drums sound is all wrong for the song 'all wrong'. Steve will be assisting with the set up. If time permits, more work on 'Lottery' as well.  I'm still looking for that swishy guitar part.  If someone knows where it is, let me know.

Later, Corp. T-Shirt is coming by.(I think)  Tim "Kenau Revees" What's-His-Face needs to finish his bass parts.  I hear tell there is another song floating about also. 

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New Mix POWER!!

That's right, SBS now has a dedicated mix computer in the mix room!  It's a quad, dual thing-eee with 'overhead underhang' and a chrome spun sprocket rocket.  I got it from a guy who lives on a hill.  I traded Steve for it.  I hope Steve likes living on a hill.  More later as I need to buy more hampsters and wheels to power this thing up.

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