November 12, 2006: "Rhythm Of The Radio"

Windrush returned to Alan's studio this morning to begin work on song #2 - "Rhythm Of The Radio (Favorite Position)", another Mike Casey original. This song was actually recorded a couple of months ago in Doug's basement studio direct to ADAT and we decided that we liked the original recording well enough to use the ADAT recording as the base for today's recording session. We dumped the ADAT tracks to the studio PC and began work on re-recording a couple of tracks, namely the vocal, bass and a couple of short drum sections.

Both John's bass and Mike's vocal tracks were completely re-recorded today and ended up as we had envisioned - significantly better than the original basement tracks. Bob's original drum track was superb as originally recorded, so only a few beats of an intro and a short lead-in break later in the song were added. We left the studio confident that our work on this son, performance-wise, is complete, leaving only Alan's post-recording 'magic' to be applied. This song has a raucous, raw and rocking feeling to it, which is exactly what we were looking for.

The plan now is for Doug and Mike to reconvene in Doug's basement to work on finding the right rhythm guitar sound for "Bad, Bad Man" so we can finalize that song. During the next couple of weeks we will be in the practice studio to work on the next set of songs prior to returning to Alan's studio.

We are energized and inspired. The 'rush' continues.