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This Week in the Studio: 10.02.06
Written by Jimmy
Inuendo’s disrupt Immovable Thing, Jimmy confirms the horror’s of Party Blaster, Rob shines on bass, The Studio gets an acoustic treatment and Andy finally gets to coil cables. All around a good day…
First, the business bits. Jimmy and Andy met early to re-do Starin’ at My Shoes, taking it in the ‘am I in love’ direction vs. the George of the Jungle direction that we enjoyed earlier.
As he always does, Andy wrote a fantastic acoustic guitar bit; Rob then added his melodic bass on top and Jimmy finished it off with his ‘crap powder’ by screwing it all up with his vocals. Ed attempted to distract the listener by leading Louise, Andy and himself thru a little choir bit on chorus and outro. We’ll see. While Jimmy and Andy were getting guide tracks down, Ed and Louise were sorting out a shorter version of Immovable Thing , with the band having been somewhat unkind on our earlier editing…They then recorded this, despite the band’s best attempts to destroy the moment (see below). Rounded out day with a return to the Dr My Eyes jam of last week, hereby renamed Facebook Party for file management purposes. A nice little rocker by Andy.
Second the stupid bits. First, about Immovable Thing. Now remember, this is a really sad, spare song. It requires Ed to play a perfect acoustic guitar for 3.30 and it requires Louise to completely ‘be in the moment’ singing about loss… So it didn’t really help that one of us (un-named) suggested that immovable thing might be about constipation. nope, it didn’t really help at all. Funny that.
During the studio clean up, Jimmy found the second Party Blaster and was able to tell the band — with evidence — this time how he single handedly destroyed New Year’s Eve 2003 in one second. Quite a feat.
We were having a party with three families, Kathy had gone all out with a spectacular dinner. All were seated at a large table set for 14, with the best China, Chrystal wine glasses, food and wine served to all. Beautiful.
Jimmy, ready to make his sole contribution to the feast, had prepared a toast and surprise. The toast was ‘May next year be full of surprises’ and the surprise was he then blasted a ‘Party Blaster’ which was essentially a 3 foot long, kilo in weight popper. Hmmmm. Yes, it exploded (the top hit the conservatory roof and busted a shade) and a kilo worth of stars, confetti, paper streamers, etc… spread across the table, filling each wine glass with paper bits, and covering all the food with little gold stars. All the food — what was already on their plates, and in the serving bowls. Thus the lyrics: ‘your the ying to my yang, the one left behind to explain all my actions and my words’. Cost to serve 14 guests a perfect meal….£573.45. Cost of Party Blaster…£13.57. Cost of the pictures of Kathy’s face… priceless.
Finally, Rob brought about 5,761 acoustic tiles for ‘studio’ (Kathy’s favourite room…previously), prompting Andy to insist on a major studio clean up. He was able to jump into his favourite thing in the world — coiling cables and set about a massive cable clean up. Never have we seen him so happy. He jumped from ca ble to cable, coiling with glee.
And after a year long battle, he fnally placed the speakers where he wanted them. He was a happy man, although he still is waging a war against the shelves above the computer desk (Kathy’s faviourite shelves – you see why she’s been referred to as St Kathy?)
That’s it. We hope you have all solved any remaining problems with your immovable things… and we wish you a year of surprises!
Jimmy