Friday, July 13 – 2012
10:00 PM
Playing as a full band featuring some new songs and old ones like you’ve never heard them before. Loud. Rock. Music. Rock.
Tickets are $10 at the door but only $5 if you buy them online here.
Be sure to RSVP to the Facebook Event.
PARKSIDE LOUNGE
317 East Houston Street
New York, NY 10002
Presented by TurnStyle Music Group
If you want a rock record to live and breathe then you better get the damn drums right. These days there’s all sorts of tools and tricks to either eking a solid drum performance out of a sub-standard drummer or just faking it in the mix.
Luckily we didn’t have to resort to either of those lame tactics when recording Crows Into Swine.
First off, Joe Renaud is a fantastic drummer. If you’ve caught one of my live shows in the past couple of years then you’ve seen his fury in person, but what’s great is we managed to capture it all on this record.
Secondly, we recorded Joe’s great performances in a great drum room; the live room at The Kennel Studio in Brooklyn with Billy Polo in an assistant engineer role. Sure you can fake a decent drum room with reverb and compression in the mix, but there’s nothing like getting 95% of the way there with a combination of performance and good raw drum sound.
We did the drums over two full days at the Kennel, doing multiple takes of each song. We were tight as shit going in and Joe nailed it. Rule of thumb is if your head is boppin’ along, you’ve probably captured a good drum take. Clay (co-Producer on the record) spent a chunk of time mic’ing the room just right and using his picky ear to sort out the takes. I forget the exact amount of mics we had, but damned if we didn’t have an overflow of options when it came time to mix.
The drums on this record fucking rock- they groove and each song has it’s own sound and feel to it while still keeping cohesive with each other. I captured a few moments of the couple of days we spent tracking drums in the video below. Hope you dig it!
Yup, so I know some of you are thinking “what the shit”? What’s happened to the nourishingly sexily spastic typings that you’ve come to expect from me? Well pull up that ragged bean bag chair/ small child servant you have lying in the corner and listen close.
I’ve been busy. Busy with the many multiple hordes of things that grabbed me by my neck hairs and tied me to a high chair.
Busy with what? Well, first off busy getting my health in order. I was waysided by some stuff that came up and had to be sorted out like so many misplaced socks. So that sucked, but all better on the other side.
Then I got a new day gig that has taken some adjusting to. And I was in Seattle last week eating this —->
Those crab legs take a while to eat.
But most importantly, I’ve been WRITING! Fuck, I have about 20 something song ideas that I’m fleshing out- 5 of them are ready for live performance, and damn if I’m not excited about it. And Joe Renuad has been killing it on drums helping me bring these songs to life.
So yes, you can hopefully expect a new album this year.
And you can expect many many live shows coming soon too. The first of which is happening in Brooklyn at Bar 4. My good friend Joe Pepitone of Dead Till Tuesday asked me to play at his video premiere party and I’m flattered and honored to do so. It’s gonna be a great night- Dead Till Tuesday are fantastic. Check out the details on my tour page.
And yes, I will be playing the 5 new songs that night. So get excited. I wrote them about all of us.
I’m back on the radar, and I hope to see you all at a show soon. I’ll be writing more – I missed you!
love, hugs, and now give your child servant a rest
-pheroze
