September 13, 2008

Recording in Alton

One of the best Saturdays of the whole year...
This morning i woke up at 9 in Spencer's living room, Sam asleep on the couch next to me and Spencer on the chair adjacent to him.
I woke them up, we took showers (seperately), Spencer played some Castle Crashers, Dalton came over, we ate, got all our instruments and left for Alton.
I was using Spencer's video camera to videotape the whole day, using disks i had bought a few days ago. I really want to videotape everything we do as The Longshot.
So we blasted Something Corporate the whole way up there; it was a nice drive with a few clouds and a bit of blue.
When we got up to Alton, I called Steve and told him we'd be at his place in a bit, and then we swung by Taco Bell. We also stopped by IlliNoise, one of the best places we've ever done a show at.
We finally found our way to Steve's house, where the studio is. He came out and greeted us and we took all our stuff downstairs.
First i laid down the strings on 'Between Two Autumns', and then for the rest of the time we all recorded 'Summer song'. That took maybe 3 1/2 hours. I videotaped most of the recording process.
I think my favorite part was definitely when we all sang the last chorus together, that was really fun. Sam kept messing it up.
When we finished at around 6, we listened to the unmixed version and it sounds so good. Dalton, Spencer and Sam did so well.
When we go back up we're going to have to bring $150 just to take home the final mix.
Looks like we're going to have to do some shows. Let's go

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