The Irrationals in studio and ensuing reflections
I've had the great pleasure of singing with The Irrationals for a few years now. Yesterday we finally made it to a real recording studio to lay down a few tracks for our upcoming CD, the second for the group. We started "Done Waiting", the title track written and led by yours truly. I for one am happy to be done waiting for this project to begin! Links to mp3s of our mixes will be available here in the future.
After spending a lot of time at the old Russian Hill Recording in San Francisco as a kid where my Stepmom worked and my Dad was often doing sessions, then hanging out at The Plant in Sausalito when my Dad recorded there, recording there myself a few times, practically living in the studio for the two years I went to Phil Mattson's music school in Iowa, too many late nights spent on recording/audio production projects in Waldorf Studio at Sonoma State University, being the one-man-office for Gary Remal Malkin's professional home studio and commercial music production business, and the dozen or so projects I've been a part of at other recording studios, it felt very much like home when I walked into Joe Weed's Highland Studios yesterday. It's funny to me that after being so bored out of my skull in studios before, I actually enjoy them now. Perhaps I wasn't old enough to appreciate it then, or maybe shutting me into a drum booth with crayons and a coloring book for mixdown when I was six had about the same effect as force-feeding me vegetables: I hated them for a while but slowly grow to enjoy them!
