I Gotta Call Larry

I've got to call Larry at LNL - as opposed to Lauren(sp) at SNL. I need to give him a heads up on the status of the bD record. Status: I don't think we're going to do anymore until after the next gig - Nov 12 at Phyllis' Musical Thing.

Realistically, we're half way done. There's a lot about these tracks I like - I think I love the process...I don't have to write anything down. I carry my guitar around w/ me - not a bunch of dog-eared (or Old Dog-eared) notebooks. The one thing that's missing (if missing is the right word) is the adventure of doing a record the Dark Squirrel way.

"Why can't we have a no-name tape?!?!?!?"

DK Squirrel and I had some moments making the last you-know-what record. Some of those moments were fucking hilarious. Old Dog's van was running funny half way between DeKalb and the mixdown place in Springfield. We realized he had enough change (that we scrounged from the Old Dog's van) for two quarts of oil - or one quart of oil and one quart of beer (Powermaster). Hey - we could've just spent the money on beer. We got to the mixdown place and nobody died. It's why I related to the Blair Witch Project (the 1st one) when it came out. The poor, scrappy little filmakers just wanted to get the rented DAT machine back to the place by Monday. Then, some dicked-up shit happened.

That has been my record making experience until doing the breather record @ Smart Studios and now working w/ Larry in Elgin. I guess I'm too old to make records while I'm fighting artsy-craftsy monsters in the middle of the woods with a map that one of my collaborators just kicked into the river and no cigarettes...

...but I'm not too old to miss it.