Category: Recording
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lurk in the shadows
Three or four years ago, not long after moving to Los Angeles, Joel and I hiked to the top of Griffith Park, the mountainous island of a park that rises out of the vast urban expanse of the city. Joel pointed out to me, as we walked in the coming twilight, that the park possesses…
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Rest Area Record Deal
Early one morning on tour this winter, somewhere between New York and North Carolina, while Joel was still asleep in the van, I sat alone on the cold tile floor of a rest area near a power outlet, as I did nearly every morning, sending emails. This morning seemed much the same as always, with…
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Finished at Long Last!!!
We’ve finally finished the recording, and having started back in June of ’09 it’s about damn time! The master came back from London late last Wednesday and by Thursday night was declared most satisfactory. Stream the pre-release single “Your Love/Not Enough” now from the Violet Lights’ homepage, myspace, or facebook pages OR sign up on…
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Late Night PST
Thursday — 06-01-2011 — 1000 hrs. — GMT Amber and I successfully transfered 5 Top Secret Files to a secure server at: Metropolis Mastering — Chiswick High Road — London — UK …and with that our production work on the Sex & Sound EP is drawn to a close. Thanks to Graham, Geoff, Jeb, Thom,…
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A Blow Upon a Bruise
…so I’m really not drinking all that much, but did manage -while vacuuming- to undo several weeks work just completed. –RIP Gibson Melody Maker in Violet Lights Violet– …we also happened across information that lead to the discovery of ongoing credit fraud in my name. And have begun climbing a sludgy hill of phone calls…
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Sell it all, baby
It’s not unusual for Joel and I to start selling our possessions when trying to finish a project. For years we’ve had a revolving door through which guitars, amplifiers, cameras, lenses, lights, computers, and innumerable other memorable and not-so-memorable items come and go, depending on whether they are worth more to us as tools or…
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I have been placed under a Voodoo hex…
Orson Welles once claimed that the reason he became increasingly unable to finish any films as his career progressed was a Voodoo curse placed on him by a witch doctor while he filmed a documentary in Brazil. Lately Joel, too, has been fond of muttering in a low, theatrically serious tone “I have been placed…
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Third time’s the charm…?
There are already two attempts in the books at getting Sex & Sound EP mixed in a high-quality and timely fashion, and we are now trying for a third, and we hope, last time, to bring this recording one step away from completion. The tracks have been sent to a producer/mixer/engineer in Austin, Texas and…
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USPS HD
So we put our life’s work into a cardboard box and shipped it off to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On the surface it seems to be questionable judgment, but in reality, not a bad call. 15 months into the recording of the Sex & Sound ep, a hard drive containing the completed tracking sessions is on its…