Hatchford Hotel
January 29, 2022
Hatchford Hotel
- Started messing with arrangement ideas for “He’s Gotta Know His Woman”
- Bought a sample library of stomps and claps for it.
- Playing around with marching band instruments also. Getting kinda busy, though.
Mahout
- Gave Bottomless Soup a quick freshening up (yesterday)
- Will be a subscriber-only album. No need to make that public.
January 26, 2022
Adam Rabin
- Recorded keys and lead vocal for “Vanishing Twin”
- I recorded keys and vox yesterday but on listening back I didn’t like the tempo.
- I can see this song developing into something bigger. Or not.
Hatchford Hotel
- Reviewed Act II, Scene 3 rewrite with Greg.
- All approved. Changed “palooka” to “jamoke”
- Greg has a small task then I’ll copy the rewrite into the master file.
January 11, 2022
Hatchford Hotel
- Finally put all of my rewrite ideas for Act II, Scene 3 onto the page… in a separate document.
- Sent off to Greg for feedback.
Elephants of Scotland
- Continued writing for “HTDN”
- Had some good new ideas, simplified/removed some old extraneous bits.
January 4, 2022
Hatchford Hotel
- Sad day. Had to postpone our show this Sunday due to the stupid pandemic.
Mahout
- Unearthed raw tracks for “Nawlins” a few days ago and gave it a nice mix.
- Greg digs it. Not sure what to do with it yet.
Mailbox
- Final mixes of a few of the covers.
- Again, no idea what to do with them. I’m really pleased with a few of them but not sure I want to pony up the dough for licensing.
January 3, 2022
Mailbox
- Remixed a handful of old cover tunes over the last few days.
- No idea why. Needed a diversion for a bit.
Hatchford Hotel
- Ryan K. came by to record his two phone call lines.
- I EQ’d and distorted them.
- Shortest tracking and mixing session ever.
December 23, 2021
Hatchford Hotel
- Some administrative follow-up to last night’s rehearsal: emails, etc.
- Spewed all of my 4am thoughts regarding Act II, Scene 3 into a document.
- I put together an outline of this alternate II, 3 but avoided writing it.
- It is definitely a bad idea to rewrite a scene at this stage of the workshop.
- But at least it’s all written down for me to think about and possibly act on after the January 9th performance.
- Wrote charts for “Overture” which is, of course, a high-energy medley of a few of the songs.
December 22, 2021
Hatchford Hotel
- Rehearsal. Blocking for end of Act I and just about all of Act II.
- I am seeing the problems in Act II, Scene 3 very clearly. Possibly too much going on. The mania is fun but I fear plot points get lost in it.
- Didn’t sleep well as a result.
- Somewhere between 3-4am I came up with a possible fix/rewrite for II, 3.