Back to the Real World

I swear the world stops when we're in here.
It doesn't, I just stop really interacting with it.
There are no windows and the only time we leave is to get sandwiches at the market across the road.
Needless to say it's a shock when we find out that it's still light outside or it's already dark.
And there's no internet and no landline phone (which there never seems to be anymore, i'm against cell phones by the way).
I go home at night for 2 hours before I pass out, to realize that my room is still a mess and I still have nothing in the fridge to eat. In brief stints, I love this.

We've just finished our first four days of recording, straight through easter weekend. Guitars, guitars and more guitars. Everything is sounding amazing. The first time i did this when i was 16 with shawn in a crappy little studio in Salmon Arm, (i say crappy cuz of the engineer and the quality of the equipment, but honestly it was much larger than the one we are in now) we had all these visions for how it would sound, and the recordings fell short time and time again. This time, the visions have only gotten bigger and our producer Mr. Cole or Dr. Boss, manages to blow us away and exceed our expectations time and time again.

Surrounded by the "O" of amps you can see in the picture below, Dr. Boss can do anything, i repeat everything. And that's not mentioning his ability to time and time again bring out a new toy out of his seemingly endless closet of tricks and contraptions.

I'm quite interested to see what will make the album. The list of songs we are recording is basically split into two breeds of songs. Both sides of the painted birds. There will definitely be some crossover, but it's interesting to see what gets picked in the end.

As a challenge i dare anyone to pick the 10 from the picture below that they think will make the album. and it doesn't matter if you've never heard the songs before. 10 from the list, on our comments board. Winner gets a copy of all the songs that were recorded including the ones that won't make the album.

Dom