Q and then U

Looks like a quiet weekend in store, but I know better. It's those weekends with no plans that sneak up on you and leave you a Monday-morning-wreck.

We'll see.

Will hopefully spend some time on Sunday working on background vocals in the studio... we're getting so damn close to being done, but we don't want to rush it. We want to make sure we have everything exactly where we want it. Some of the "clean up" stuff will include: a couple of bass overdubs, one drum part we'll retrack, a low-fi version of an old BRB tune to be used somewhere on the album, some string quintets... that kind of stuff.

 The fact that we started tracking last year has obviously been weighing on us... we'd have liked to have the album in hand for all these summer festivals. But when you read how a band like Coldplay, with nothing but resources and time, spends a year and half recording an album, you realize that the great bands take as long as they need to get the record right.

For a band like The White Stripes, that's 3 weeks.

For a guy like Peter Gabriel, that's 8 years.

For Burn Rome Burn, it's looking like it'll be about 8 months of weekend recording sessions.

jbg