You Got It, Ya Ride The Silver Rocket

It's Monday morning in America, and I am working from home!

And by working I mean, making coffee, trying to sell stuff on Craigslist, and wearing a bizarre hodgepodge of what may or may not qualify as clothing.

My current scheme is the Church of Sound Mobile Unit MU-001.

I have a little money set aside, and trying to decide where best to put it.
I want to have the capability to track cleanly and without interruption in any setting (provided two wall outlets).
Hoping that my little PowerBook G4 is up to the task. Perhaps I should give it a nice nickname for encouragement?
Silver Rocket.
So it's either, sell the computer and upgrade to a non-unibody MacBook Pro, or give the little bugger a chance.
Besides, it loved me when my luck was down.

SO, There has been much to discuss since my first posting.

The 3-day recording session with Bad Assets was a success on all fronts, and it was agreed that it was a fated match, a well-timed event that yielded a great result. I think we both knew, going into it, that they'd be taking a chance on me technically, however our budding friendship provided the backdrop to the business end.

The first day we had from 10am until 4:30 in which I had hoped to complete all live tracking of instruments.
Total isolation on guitar, bass and drums for this wild power trio? Check!
Were they up to the task and well practiced enough to nail six songs? Double Check!
Would the gods look favorably upon my noble venture, and thereby vanquish any circuit lurking techno gremlins? Si.

Come 4pm and we're getting killer sounds all day, happy with takes of all six songs!
There's a western, a couple punk rockers, even some power pop jams. All across the board, you can't pin Bad Assets down!

Next day :
Guitars, Guitars, Guitars. Wild, shrieking strings and gristling tubes belching.
Listened to Joe Mac shred through an estimated thirty-something guitar solos.
Set up for Congas? Yup.

Day three was all vocals - great sounds on the mic, great lyrics, harmonies, just enough to make things feel just a little - but not too - produced.

Phew! Anyways I just noticed that the band has posted a couple MP3's from our sessions on their myspace so I can quit trying to explain and you can just here it :

BAD ASSETS on MySpace

I'm off to change the laundry. Stay tuned for the next chilling chapter!!