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This Week in the Studio: 11.01.08
Written by Jimmy
The Music
We focused on Millbank, Michael’s song ‘about generations.’ Lovely song, and we worked on a very good ‘unplugged’ version for Michael and then added on Rob on bass, Mike on Shaker/Surdo, Sophie on Cello and Hannah on backing vocals. All fun, but the Sophie Shield was required a number of times as Sophie tends to get the giggles. Michael remains somewhat bemused by our love of the Surdo. We also started on Sky, with some lovely cello lines, but ran out of time.
Everything Else
A major bet about Jimmy’s children, ends in his humiliation. Rob continues to ‘smell’ bad tracks. And we launch the Discovery Series.
- Jimmy Loses £20 to Sophie by not knowing where his children came from… For some reason, we got into a discussion of IVF and Jimmy was talking to the band, trying to estimate Hunter’s real age – given he was a frozen embryo for so long (click here for that story). Sophie asked what Tory’s real age was since Tory was also an IVF. I said, no Tory was o’naturale. She said, no Tory was IVF. I said, no, she was o’naturale and given I was somewhat involved, I should know. She said, well, I’m just going by your blog on Strange Clock (I’ve since editied it!), where you were clear Tory was also an IVF baby. I said, well that’s ridiculous! I would never write that. And Sophie said, ‘well you did.’ So she wanted to bet £5. I knew she was dead wrong so I raised it to £20. She said yes. We saw blog. I had written ‘Tory was also a product of IVF, but Morgan is well, …more organic.’ Hmmmm. I sort of got it wrong. And I sort of have to pay Sophie £20. And she’s a great winner. Didn’t remind me of it every other second of the day about it. Didn’t write about it on Facebook. Didn’t say ‘in your face square pants’ 2,456 times. Nope, she’s a great winner. And Jimmy didn’t even know Tory was o’naturale.
Rob Smells Bad Tracks: We have a whole set of New Year’s Resolutions for the studio. The first is to tune all our instruments together. Good one. The second is to be minimalists, which includes banning the hammond organ from songs and Rob’s disco clavinet. The third is to take our time gettting the track just right. For the last resolution, we just have to look at Rob after each track. If he doesn’t like something, he gives his ‘Did someone ‘prub’ face (prub being a backwards burp, or air from the other end – ask my family about that one)?
- Finally, we discussed the launch of the new Discovery Series, starting with Gus, Discovery 1, and Michael as Discvery 2. You’ll hear more about this in the weeks to come.
Jimmy
I GOT YER MONEY, SQUARE PANTS! Have actually framed it.
*beams smugly*
Comment by Sophie on January 10, 2011 at 11:04 am