Thursday, May 15, 2003

What to Do, What to Do.

Ah yes,... Wednesday--the day that I traditionally take off to attend to my personal stuff. Today it went great, but as usual, some work stuff creeps in......

Tonight I had dinner with Jeff Skiba, (he flipped for it, so Thanks, Jeff). We discussed many things. Actually, Jeff asked a few questions and sat back to see if he could pluck bits of desired information out of the unedited ramblings of yours truely. I think the black current tea went to my head. I do remember that we talked about doing another set of songs and that we might look into having Steve Palusek straw-boss a country cutting ensemble. I'm pretty sure that we will get Kevin Ryan to help out as well. And speaking of Kevin...

K.R. and I met with a young singer songwriter, Courtney Powers, to talk about a project. The meeting went well, and Courtney gave us a lot of raw material to sift through. But after the meeting, Kevin rounded up the engineers and staff at SugarHill and played them the video he shot at Abbey Road. The guys and gals were TRANSFIXED!!!! I thought Steve Christensen was going to have to change underwear when he saw John Brion's string overdubs in the famous Studio 2. We all got excited when Kevin played the tape of John micing his drum kits. We were feeling, "Not Worthy!!!!!!!"

On other news, the deal to do two songs with Pale seems to be firming up. The guys are working hard to put together the fundage, which I totally respect. Zach from Adamo has been off the page for a bit, but I still REALLY want to mix their project. June is looking a bit full, though.

Yesterday evening was spent at Mark Ellis' house doing the last pre-pro rehearsal for Mark Needs a Chick. We start tracking next week, and guess what,.....we had the crummiest rhythm section rehearsal I have had with them so far. Now that we have that out of the way, the tracking date itself should ROCK. I spent most of my time checking out the band's bass rig which is an Ampeg SVT3. I became curious because Steve Christensen rented an SVT Classic & SVT cabinet from Toby Davis for a Slovak Girl session last week and it sounded HUGE!!!!!!! I wanted to reassure myself that using the bands' amp would not make me regret not having Toby's rig. Hmmmm.

Time to call Giancarlo Cafearena about renting his Matchless Combo for the overdubs. Last time it sounded great on Mark's stuff, so GC, I'll be calling you.

OH MAN, 'GC' reminds me that I am taking my daughter, Joe Ann, to see Good Charlotte and Newfound Glory on Friday night for her birthday. I cannot wait to see how they sound live bcs the record is SUCH a 'producer's record'. I will report!

Finally, it is about time to go public with a cool new product that SugarHill is making available to clients. It's called the SugarHill Tape Vault. Go to www.sugarhillstudios.com and check it out!!!! It will be a totally unique way to publish music to the web.


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