We now have 18 tracks mixed by Bob Clearmountain!  We finished tracking last Friday, and Bob was hot on our heels with the mixes. He was already mixing tracks we'd finished earlier, while we forged ahead to finish the rest. He would have passed us for sure if we hadn't had some shipping delays getting him the raw materials. Bob really brought the songs to life. We knew he would.  I am so frickin excited about these new songs... well, it's ridiculous.  I can not wait to get them out to the world.  In fact I may not.  I may just post them all in a euphoric haze.

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 We're on a tour bus somewhere outside of Minneapolis, en route to Cadott, WI.  We've been listening to possible single edits for "You Run Away", and "Graffiti Love".  Jim, and I have been doing them in Garageband.  It's a fierce competition.  Jim destroyed me with his "You Run Away" edit, but I will best him in the "Graffiti Love" duel.  It is an unspoken competition, but a competition nonetheless.  DAMN YOU Creeggan!!!!  You haven't seen the last of me!!!!

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 It's a cloudy afternoon here in Toronto, and we're still plugging away on... as yet untitled.  That's not what it's called though.  We just did some killer clapping on "Golden Boy".  Any day you invoke the Bay City Rollers is a good day.  I'm setting up to play some guitar on "The Love We're In".  That song is struggling to find itself.  I think we're on the right track now.  I've tried several approaches to the vocal... I think what we ended up with is good, but it's a lot more fragile than I'm used to hearing my vocal.

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