GATORFACE: GatorFAIL!

So the whole concept of us updating this blog every day from the studio really went out the window didn't it? Are we lazy? Definitely. But we're pretty sure the songs turned out fucking killer.

In the end all 13 songs got recorded, but we didn't end up

leaving the studio with even a rough mix. We were tracking late into the evening Monday, and after 3 late nights everyone was kind of burnt out.

Good things that happened:

A. Tons of Mexican food from El Indio. Killer Tempeh burritos. We ate there at least 3 times, possibly 4, but my brain was obliterated by the

entire recording process and I don't truly remember.

B. I didn't blow out my voice completely and managed to get all of the vocals done by spacing them out over Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

C. KILLER GUITAR TONES! I couldn't even possibly list the amo

unt of guitar amps we had to choose from at Crescendo. We used a little bit of everything

depending on the situation, but the basic tracks involve Marshall JCM 800's, a Music Man, a

nd an Orange head. Nick and Quilty absolutely killed their guitar tracks.

D. KILLER DRUM SOUNDS and BASS TONE! Since me and Richard recorded the No Friends record there in December of last year, we knew EXACTLY what we were going for and did our best to mimic that. Plus it helped that me and Richard destroyed all of the drums and bass tracks within 4 hours.

(Richard has Addison set up his drums for him... He's too famous to do it himself.)

E. Other tidbits. Some baritone guitar might surface, there might be a little bit of percussion going on in a couple pl

aces as well. I also got my wish of playing a part using James from Against Me's AMAZING G & L semi holo telecaster. It's my favorite guitar ever. He lets Derron keep it at the studio and I obsess over it every time I'm there.

F. Got to crash and hang out with our buddy Tony Weinbender that puts on the Fest all weekend and see some of the Young Livers dudes and Var from No Idea.

Bad Things that Happened:

A. Didn't get to leave with a mix, so we're all (except for Richard because he's cool and collected about this shit) dying to get to hear it. It's haunting our sleep every night.

B. We definitely didn't get to party or hang out like we wanted to. Between trying to keep from losing my voice and geeking out over getting it all done this weekend we didn't really go out much. We'll be back Gainesville, and we will

rage you. Hard.

C. There's always a couple cool ideas that you think of for a record that you forget to implement when you're crunched for time. It's a bummer, but I think we hit every major idea we had. The other stuff that we might have added if we had more time is pretty minor and purely flavor stuff/extra instrumentation that we would NEVER do live.

All in all, a very positive (yet mildly stressful) experience and I'm pretty sure we made a pretty catchy aggro record. I'll post more of Quilty's pics below. There might be a video coming too, although we suck at taking video footage. We'd rather live in the moment dudes... experience life and shit... Hippiez rule!

-Alex