July 2009

It's Mixed!

Ed — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:44:42 +0000

It's Mixed!

posted by Ed on July 30, 2009 in Cottage, Flying, Mixing, New Songs, Recording New Album

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. So far, the feedback from the tracks has been incredible. The few close pals I've handed them to are freaking out. It's a very nice feeling. After tracking Friday, Ty hopped in to my plane with me, and we flew up to my cottage where our families were waiting. We had a great weekend of BBQ, and boating (God's Combo). It was Ty's first time in my plane, and he didn't seem freaked out about the fact that we flew right over my crash site for the approach to the lake... Thanks for the confidence Ty! The record release plan is falling in to place now. I can't wait to be playing all of this stuff live. We've been playing a bunch of new songs at the handful of shows we've been doing. It's just where our heads are right now. So much fun. It's going to be be really cool, and challenging readopting a bunch of the old material too. So far, we've just been winging it, but when we manage to slot in a few reheawwrwii... rehwaahhhh... rehearsaaaaaaahhhh. See, BnL is sort of like Fonzie. He can't say sorry, and we can't do that thing where you get together, and actually run through some of your songs!! We will though, and then it's going to be killer. We have lots of cool plans already. I'm going to go jump in the lake while it's not raining for 15 mins!

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Planes, Vans, and Busomobiles!

Ed — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:04:36 +0000

Planes, Vans, and Busomobiles!

posted by Ed on July 17, 2009 in Bus, New Songs, Shows

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!!!! Looking forward to playing with Sheryl Crow tonight. I've always been a big fan of her stuff. Plus, she's super hot! We just ate at a fantastic place on the side of the highway. If I was into sports, and alcohol, and appetizer samplers... I'd have been in heaven. Tyler WAS in heaven!

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Clappin, Singin, Playin some guitar... You know how it goes.

Ed — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:55:57 +0000

Clappin, Singin, Playin some guitar... You know how it goes.

posted by Ed on July 15, 2009 in New Songs, Recording New Album, studio

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. I was considering flying myself to the couple of gigs we have this weekend... but I'm kind of looking forward to the hang on the bus with the guys, so I think I'll leave the plane here, and go old-school! It's really nice to be back in the cockpit again (or as a Canadian Forces female fighter pilot referred to it "The Box Office"). After my crash, I felt a huge loss of that part of my identity. It was a crazy time... Steve's Drug bust, my plane crash. It seemed like the world was conspiring to take everything I held important away from me. Happy to have that behind me. Feeling REALLY good in this space now. Flying again. Making a killer record. This was supposed to be a quick little studio update, cause Tyler bugged me about not blogging. So, there ya go. More than I intended to say, as there is more on my mind, I guess. Time to play some more guitar.