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One day, in the future, when emails have been replaced by The Force, or some other Jedi/Facebook combination, we'll look back on a time where you sent individual emails as some kind of anachronism.

Today I had to convert the guide-track .WAV files to MP3, then argue with my email client about how to attach them, then send them, etc etc. So if you randomly find I've sent you a file and asked you to add a chorus harmony, don't worry, I may have done that to a few other random people as well.

Who knows, maybe great things will come of it. And while I am at it, I should also praise this moment in technology, when we can collaborate with people across vast distance (at least 10 kms!) and say 'hey, have a listen to this mix and add something', they can download it, open up their choice of recording program, add another track and send it back.

It's all pretty nifty huh? 

Yep, Jo, Fettler and some Secret Keyboardists are now listening to guide mixes and going "huh?'

:-)

We're back in the studio on Monday for a Rosie session, which is closed to the band (awww..) so I have had to beg for access for some blogging purposes, but otherwise, this place is more classified than Skunkworks, as Rosie and Pete work on a Stealth Solo (invisible to the naked eye) for Feel So Blue.

Thereafter, over the next two or so weeks, it's backing Vocals, Fiddle (?), Percussion and Keys, plus some possible repairs on some Harp and singing that might be suspect. I say might because I could be wrong, it might  all be fine, it may (aha!) just be my ears messing with my head. Oh boy that was an awful metaphor.

Relentlessly, we're grinding towards the completion of this album with the finesse (and power usage) of a Large Hadron Collider. Just add notes, accelerate them towards light speed, bash'em together and measure the results. Hey presto, it's music!

Heh. Its amazing what a little email grief can do for you.

Our good mate Roscoe sent me a few choice  comments regarding our troublesome song, Light In The Distance,  and today I went into the studio with a Manly approach to things.

We had two vocal sessions organised but lo and behold, we got through everything (barring Hard Times) in one sitting. Wow.

Some days you just seem to be able to fire up and hey presto, things worked. Of course, we have benefited from the time we have spent agonising over this stuff at previous sessions, plus allowing time to pass so we could absorb different approaches.

Woot! Now its time for the additional musicians to come in for their stuff.

With any luck, we might even see a few of the new songs make it into the set over the next few gigs.

I did this Cd cover for New York Rap Artist Ismael Sankara

Our first time at the Taverneres Hill Hotel. 

463 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt, May 19th from 8:30.

Come on down! We still have T-Shirts! :-)

Howdy Folks.

Well, sometimes you have a big night and we had one last night. Cheers to Colleen, Helen, Josh, Rory, Jan, Sean,Kylie, Derek and all the folks who came out and got down on a cold night.

There was a fashion explosion last night as our t-shirts went flying off the shelves (wow). Thankyou to our human bill boards. We appreciate the advertising space, dont worry if the t-shirt art changes from time to time, I've syndicated it with Readers Digest. 

The boys were in particularly good form last night and some monstrous playing was heard. 

I noticed that the signage otuside the pub had spelled our band name in the alternative manner... Storm Celler - like a salt celler, I guess. Peter Sellars? :-)

Next to it was this sign for the Wests, and as I looked more closely, I realised it was hand painted, remarkable.

And in completely reverse order, here's Rosie setting up at the beginning of the night.

Well that all makes sense! Caption this photo and win a date with our Roadie!