December 2007
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Panorama of the Studio
Here's roughly the final version!
(of course, panorama-fisheying distorts things, but you get the idea. It's not actual 100 feet long and 2 feet wide, as this picture would seem to …
Play-by-play
Now that "Excursions" is about ready to go to mastering, and even though at this point nobody's really heard it but me, Dr. Goedken, and my very patient girlfriend, it seems like now's as good a time as any to detail the backstories behind the album. Track by …
Panorama of the Studio
Here's roughly the final version!
(of course, panorama-fisheying distorts things, but you get the idea. It's not actual 100 feet long and 2 feet wide, as this picture would seem to …
Play-by-play
Now that "Excursions" is about ready to go to mastering, and even though at this point nobody's really heard it but me, Dr. Goedken, and my very patient girlfriend, it seems like now's as good a time as any to detail the backstories behind the album. Track by …
DIY Tubular drum triggers
as the proud owner of a used Alesis DM-5 I'd toyed with the idea of using the trigger
inputs in the back for something. Honestly, since I got the thing in 2004,
there was little other reason to use it - it was old and the internal sounds …
DIY Tubular drum triggers
as the proud owner of a used Alesis DM-5 I'd toyed with the idea of using the trigger
inputs in the back for something. Honestly, since I got the thing in 2004,
there was little other reason to use it - it was old and the internal sounds …
Liveblogging Reverence (kinda)
(Dan tried this a few years ago - at the first Reverence, actually - on the ND Blog and I thought it was clever. So I'm appropriating the style.)
Fanale's giving us an intro. I'd better rub his head for luck. Ew, sweaty.
Shit it's hot already. We haven't even …
Review - Blaqk Audio "CexCells"
Davey Havok is my age, and he grew up listening to the same sort of stuff I did. It's really no secret, despite the surprise of several million american teenagers - the B-side to Miss Murder was a cover of the Morrissey B-side "Jack the Ripper" (although you …
Liveblogging Reverence (kinda)
(Dan tried this a few years ago - at the first Reverence, actually - on the ND Blog and I thought it was clever. So I'm appropriating the style.)
Fanale's giving us an intro. I'd better rub his head for luck. Ew, sweaty.
Shit it's hot already. We haven't even …
Yet another blog update
With some considerable gnashing of teeth, I've got the blog here upgraded to Movable Type 4. I eventually plan to start using some of MT4's more advanced features. I gotta get the RSS feed back up and running too.
Actually, the upgrade wasn't so bad in terms …
Review - Blaqk Audio "CexCells"
Davey Havok is my age, and he grew up listening to the same sort of stuff I did. It's really no secret, despite the surprise of several million american teenagers - the B-side to Miss Murder was a cover of the Morrissey B-side "Jack the Ripper" (although you …
Yet another blog update
With some considerable gnashing of teeth, I've got the blog here upgraded to Movable Type 4. I eventually plan to start using some of MT4's more advanced features. I gotta get the RSS feed back up and running too.
Actually, the upgrade wasn't so bad in terms …
Not content to rest on my laurels.
My laurels are kind of sore anyway.
I have been active in the studio of late. Obviously the bulk of the effort has been going towards re-arranging the live tracks to work with the new lineup. That is going remarkably well, and has resulted in a few somewhat …
Not content to rest on my laurels.
My laurels are kind of sore anyway.
I have been active in the studio of late. Obviously the bulk of the effort has been going towards re-arranging the live tracks to work with the new lineup. That is going remarkably well, and has resulted in a few somewhat …
The mic'ed dholak
for a while i've grappled with the problem of getting the dholak in the live show. Played traditionally, it's generally laid on the floor and the player kneels in front of it. …
Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago
In what I hope is a precedent-setting first for the band, everyone showed up for loadup on time. I'd spent a while beforehand making sure everything was packed up properly, as I am wont to do, so loading was just a case of haul it up the stairs and heave it in …