From July 23rd 2007
I gotta share some of this craziness with you guys......
Ill preface it all by saying Ive been CRANKIN on studio work the past couple weeks. I have to say im probably more focused in the past 4 weeks on music than anything ever in my life. Just completely hardcore endulged in it.. it all goes back to the GOETHE saying i have hung up on my walls in my house... about how when you are 100% commited to something, ONLY THEN will you get the full benefits from what you are focused on. He says when you are 100%, things happen that wouldnt of otherwise happened.
Well, its happening. Seriously unbeleiveable results so far with drums, guitar and bass tracks. All drum tracks are done, about 70% of guitars and almost half of the bass tracks. But check this out.... it dont come without some serious shit...
So Ray, the KAZY guitarist tracking on most of this record came in from Detroit (313 wut up Em) and spent 5 days here to track.... so here is life.... were about to start, have my engineer here at the KAZY pad, get everything mic'd up, guitars all set up from Third Coast Guitars, Rays in town, were all set to go! Nope. My main AMP dont turn on. Actually it did turn on... it turned on ME! That bastard amp! I love that amp. ok so we have a love hate. But the amp didnt work! So we hurry and change all the tubes in it HOPING its just the tubes that need to be changed, get em all in.... NOPE. Still dont work. Now what? Well we need to go get one... its a hard to find amp, a MESA ROAD KING, but we found one at G Center that we had to actually buy to "try out" for a few days. Late start but the day went well.... after about 11 at night we cant track loud blazing guitars or my neighborhood will flip, so we turn to do acoustic stuff late night.... we get it all mic'd up for acoustic... Im ready... Rays ready... the acoustic is BUZZING LIKE CRAZY... every damn string on frets all over the guitar are BUZZING LOUD. THANKS THIRD COAST GUITARS FOR FUCKING ME!!!!! I hire them to set up the guitars so THEY DONT BUZZ. it had MORE BUZZ then when I gave it to them. Of course this is majorly boosted once we get the studio dead from sound and killer mics up. ANYWAY... so here we are at 2am with me and Ray ripping my house apart to find an alan wrench so he can set it up himself, which he did pretty well.... we got it practically buzz free..... then we track till 6am or so. And were listening at like 6:30 am and something not right..... OH MAN.. get this... and this ones on me. My tuner got changed somehow to 432hrtz instead of standard tuning at 440. SO EVERYTHING WE RECORDED WITH ACOUSTICS WAS OUT OF TUNE... better yet.... all the bass tracks I had done before Ray got to town were all at 432. Yeah..... insane.
SO.... after ending the night with a few shots of JD, we hit the next day strong... laid some bass down, and started crankin on guitars...... the day is going GREAT.... huge momentum.... as were tracking... check this... a MAJOR storm hits.... lighting hits a tree that falls across my entire stree (huge trees in my town) and knocks out the power lines. MOMENTUM- GONE. FUCK. So... I bust out the video tape and show the emergency trucks n shit outside which Ill share eventually.... and were down for about 3 hours. Finally get back up and wrap up the night strong. From there the next 2 days went amazing... we hit stride and shits sounding KILLER.
So I guess what Im saying here is... LIFE IS CRAZY NUTS NUTTY CRAZY AND NUTS! All this hard work and focus and all these things that try and stop you..... yet with the commitment at 100% you make it past the obstacles..... break through them.... because if you KNOW its going to happen then NOTHING can stop you.... NOTHING. Not only that, the tracks that are getting recorded and laid down are better than I could of expected. Im amazed really.
I had to take time to do this blog and bulletin.... its been itching at me... jsut havent been on here much at all with all the focus on the tracking.
So things are going well! Thanks for the continued support... so much shits gonna be coming out once this records done.... new myspace designed page, the record, more merch, a new video, etc etc etc...
Be cool.... and be in touch!
KAZY
