Day 6
The evening began with a mood and a feel unlike any of the other previous sessions. We arrived at the studio with our axe’s in our holsters, and I, with 7 cups of coffee in my stomach for some serious ass primer, prepared to finalize the tracks.
There wasn’t much of an itinerary, but more of a, “Lets see what’s left”. Cheebs strapped on his man-rod with strings and began to solo out Bombs in Baskets. He attempted a couple of takes and he was finished with the composition. I shouldered my man-rod with strings and belted a couple of shitty single string lines and I was out for the night as far as fondling my musical instrument. Cheebs re-did the most powerful shortest solo ever composed in an LF song in God in Uniform (literally destroyed it) and then quickly moved on to Ad Hominem (Fuck Song). Cheebs double-tracked this solo again, but not using the single coil like he did in the previous recording attempts. It was a double thumbs-up the ass for him on that one. Good job! After Cheebs finger flailing, it was on to the back-up vocals….
Now, in the past years, recording an LF album with back-up harmonies was a no-brainer to us, but for some reason, these songs left little room for (in Cheebs words), “the epical choral background” A few of the songs, such as Bombs in Baskets, Return to History, and Activists Can Be Poseurs Too were pretty easy to come by, but the rest were like a scene where a guy sees a girl at a bar and he wants to talk to her, but he doesn’t have the courage so he gets a couple more drinks in him to talk to her, and he finally builds up the courage to talk to her, and he walks over to her, and he opens his mouth, but nothing comes out so in desperation, he does something stupid like grabs her vagina. Kind of a deranged analogy, but it gets my point across. We basically didn’t want to do anything stupid to the songs. (okay, so maybe it wasn’t a great analogy). Anyway, the back-up vocals were an uphill battle (some parts were fitting, others were not) until finally, Cheebs and I agreed that the songs probably did not need as many back-ups vocals as previous albums did. These songs are a lot stronger and placing back-up vocals within the songs in the right spots would only compliment certain aspects of the songs, not necessarily adding more to the songs. Whoa, I think I just had an epiphany! Anyway, the night lingered on and we were fucking tired. So, we called it a night, drove the long way home to have one day off from recording, think about what’s left and to return Saturday morning for what should be the last day. See ya then, comrades.
Peace,
Kevy Hallous
