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From an all-day session at the studio with the Long Beds (actually Molly came in a day later):

After that last shot, when Chuck had cased up his secret weapon, he and I retired to the kitchen for homemade lentil/cabbage/pork sausage soup…thank you to my wife for that, for fresh apple cake, and as always, for forbearance.  She is the solid center of my mental contraptions.

A portion of the studio where we’ve been recording is built over an old swimming pool.  Engineer Jaime discovered that if he suspended a microphone in the vast space below the floor, it picked up some fine reverberant goodies.  Recording engineers love this sort of stuff (geek alert!).

Long day of recording yesterday (Sunday).  Long Beds guitarist/keyboardist/MENSA-head Chris stayed overnight but forgot his suitcase in St. Paul.  Fortunately, I have a lot of extra fire department t-shirts.  The guy who gave us this one knows who he is…Thanks, Barry!

Long Beds recording sessions continue.  Billy was inside recording an acoustic guitar part so Chuck and I took the opportunity to gather acorns for my porkers.  What you see here is an eminently talented bassist scooping up free pig food with a child’s snow shovel.  This is a pretty relaxed crew.

Not a lot of blogging as we are recording steady.  I do my mundane chords and single rhythm, sing the way I do, then my musician friends do the real work.  Honestly, it’s like putting Shrek in Cinderella’s carriage.