2020 blog

monday, july 13th - arlington, ma

this was our first (and what turned out to be our only) "bubble" practice. we had done a 2 week quarantine so that kids could bubble and swim together in the cape and numbers were low, so it seemed to be safe. we got in one practice before it got too complicated to track who was in contact with who and whatnot. so fun to play live again and we still even played way across the room from each other to be extra safe.

sunday, january 12th - arlington, ma

we spent a few hours mixing down "backwards" with DJ in the studio. we went until our ears were tired and we got most of it down. for sure there is some tweaking and more mixing. we'll tackle that when we have fresh ears.

thursday, january 2nd - arlington, ma

happy new year everybody! we tried to cram in our next batch of songs by the end of the year and didn't quite make it. that's ok because we got the bulk of it going with 4 new songs. we continued working on "backwards" adding mandolin from DJ and the "studio magic" from chris. we like to get all those shakersm, toms and even a little cow bell. we're not sure, but we (meaning chris) may have invented the vibra-slap-mute where instead of letting it ring out, he ended it with a mute, like you might do with a crash cymbal at the end of a song. clearly the creative juices and whiskey was flowing!