We worked into the late am hours tonight and as a new wind blew and the cold was biting I walked outside of the studio to find Los angeles as peaceful as it could be. People and cars were sparse, there was no car horns blowing, no children screaming, it was just me. As i stood on the corner of magnolia and lankershim I felt more content than ever ( Read more... )

So my weekend turned into 7 days somehow. I have been so out of it lately. Plus the california weather doesn't help any. It will be nice and sunny and then out of nowhere the sky opens and pours the most depressing rain on us. Aalso being locked up in the studio for 14 hours doesn't help any but I am making music and that keeps me happy. The songs ( Read more... )

The weekend has finally arrived and even though the rest of the band will be in the studio today, I decided to get away. I decided that everyone and everything was driving me mad. I used to work at this really bad hardware store and days would come where I just didn't want to be there. So why go? So no entries until monday. I will be wandering ( Read more... )

So when we heard our friends in Catch 22 were going to be in town we thought, who better to come down to the studio and lay some horns down on our album. I had this track "Searching For Ground" in mind, which has a very Rolling Stones/ Elvis Costello vibe to it but needed some soul horns to complete it. And after Catch left today I felt we really ( Read more... )

This album is really starting to take on something. I felt excited tonight. Excited about the direction our music is heading, Excited for all of you to hear it and excited to finally see a year of writing get layed down on tape. The studio day started slow but we were rocking by nightfall, it really seemed like everything started jumping out of the ( Read more... )

All the candy has been eaten, there are hangovers being experienced everywhere and two more tracks have been layed down. How was everyone's halloween? I spent mine in the studio recording and watching bad tv. Halloween used to be so exciting for me, I couldnt wait to go out looking totally ridiculous and get crazy. Now that seems like everyday for ( Read more... )

So last night the Usual rock and rollin goin on at the studio. we tracked another 2 songs and I must say I am excited. The stuff is sounding great. So the big event of the night was that we put a final approval on the "Under Suspicion" cover art. The cover looks real cool and its definately "Suspicious", As you may or may not know so are all of the ( Read more... )

So we had some time off and are now back in the groove. We started guitars yesterday at EMG studios in North Hollywood. It was a typical first day of recording, Lots of setup and not much getting done. I had dinner at the pizza place next to the studio and got totally ripped off. It was like nine dollars for a small salad and a slice and not to ( Read more... )

I sit here wrestling with my usual case of insomnia and so far its winning. No sleep tonight! Who needs it anyway. I have the memories of our last night tracking bass and drums at the castle to keep me somewhat sane. It was a great night. we tracked the 18th and final song tonight. I like all 18 songs so much it is going to be hard to cut any of ( Read more... )

Another eventful day at the Castle. We all started late as usual, which is a Madcap legacy. If there is one special thing we will leave behind besides our music, it's all the times we were supposed to be somewhere and were'nt. Enough said. So after tracking for a while a video crew came down and did some filming for what will be the enhanced part ( Read more... )