Terry’s Studio / Raleigh Blog July 3, 2008

Here we are in the sitting upstairs at Sound Of Music working on some more guitar overdubs. Carter just finished putting down electric guitar and then doubling it with electric 12 String on a song called "Pink". Right now he is changing out the 9 Volt battery in his Fulltone '69 pedal and getting ready to put on the big lead part for the end. I'll be doing acoustic guitars after that, but in the meantime, I'm hanging out catching up on my blogs. Yesterday I used my downtime to create 14 new MySpace pages, so that all of our albums and songs would be up. It's one of those things that I have been meaning to do for a long time, so I finally got of my butt and did it.

Last Saturday we had a show down in Raleigh for their Downtown Live concert series. In order to get a sound check, we needed to be there at 10:15 am. We finished our sound check at 12:15 and, since our actual set wasn't until 9:45, we had several hours to kill. Carter was putting some stuff up for sale at a great store called Indoor Storm, so Jason, Jordan and I tagged along with him. That place is incredible! They have some really amazing guitars, amps and drums…. I can definitely see myself with the big red Carr half-stack at some point!

After that we headed back downtown and (on the recommendation from Dave at Indoor Storm) ended up grabbing lunch at Cooper's Barbecue. Holy C*&%!! Definitely some of the best BBQ I've ever had – plus, their hushpuppies were incredible. Apparently, Cooper's is a bit of an institution in Raleigh and I can certainly see why.

We then retreated to our air conditioningless dressing room to let the lunch settle for a bit. I think that the hushpuppies expanded in our stomachs and pretty soon the four of us were just about passed out into food comas. Sweating. Not a pretty picture.

A little later I was taking a walk and ran into Brad Smith from Blind Melon. When we were getting ready to record Love Loss Hope Repeat, we talked on the phone to Brad and Christopher Thorn about producing the project, but the timing didn't work out then. It was really nice to meet those guys in person. Very gracious guys. It was a ton of fun to stand on the side of the stage and watch their set. Totally amazing. I'm not sure where they found their new singer, Travis Warren, but he sounds almost identical to Shannon Hoon… it was almost a little eerie.

Our set was a lot of fun, but I could tell that I was a bit rusty on some of the set. My mind has been so focused on the stuff that we are recording that I forgot some dumb little stuff. It was really nice to get out and blow off some steam though! We also shot a little video of a dedication to a Marine over in Iraq – hopefully we'll have something up on YouTube next week. Other than Buford nearly setting the lighting rig on fire (not his fault – the guy that was in charge of the lights didn't know what he was doing and was incredibly unhelpful, "I love this job because I don't have to do anything", "What are they going to do, fire me?"), it was a great time had by all.

Well, I think that Carter is about finished laying down the shred… time for me to get to work!

Happy 4th of July! Try not to burn anything down, reapply your sunscreen, drink lots of fluids and try to avoid salmonella tainted tomatoes.

Take Care,
Terry

PS – Today's studio pictures… John Morand recording, Carter's Foot, Carter playing on the couch:

Comments

[Cindy]

I just have to say, is the couch Carter is sitting on leopard print? If so, that's pretty sweet. I'm super excited for the new album! I totally know it's going to be amazing, like all the others.