Well, i’ve taken my first cold shower of the Blogathon, but not because i was tired: i was soaked to the skin from playing guitar and doing various performance aerobics in my fourth floor attic bedroom and when i went to take a shower someone downstairs flushed the toilet or something. So, cold and wet, and definitely very awake.
Gina just left, and while she was here we basically recorded an entire EP of her, which includes the absolutely stunning Say It Ain’t So – the first time she’s ever sang the song with me. Also, note Lindsay’s first ever recorded guitar performance on the picked open-chord acoustic. I’ll be peppering the rest of the night with some Gina tunes, especially an amazing one she did with Dante (yes, another musician) accompanying her on the talking drum. And then all the gals sans Kate came up here to record a little surprise, and so now i’m left with twenty minutes to decide what (that i haven’t recorded already) i would like Dante to lend some of his multi-instrumental talents to. And then i think Jack still wants to record some Bowie. And then i have to do requests.
So, for those of you keeping score, YES, i am actually recording almost all twenty four songs in a single twenty four hour period. Beat that.
Blogathon: 13/24 – Say It Ain’t So
Still… recording… new… songs….
Blogathon: 12/24 – What It Is
Again the room had been cleared out, but this time with my 25th song of the day safely in the can. Trying to balance this all is nearly more than i can take all at once; aside from blogging and recording i’m also producing all of the tracks and trying to chat it up a little with all of the other bloggers. Plus cohost a dinner party. Plus track the songs for the rest of the night. Plus try to figure out how to mic a talking drum. Ahhg.
Anyhow, mid-hour updates will continue to be sparse for another couple of hours as we host a dinner party and record some more songs. Rest assured that i’m all yours for the entire latter 12 hours, though.