A session without John means that we are working on getting stuff ready for sessions with John.   We decided before we started that because John had limited availability, we would try to work in batch mode.   We would record 5 drum tracks and on days he wasn’t available prep the next 5 songs.   Once we [...]

Thanks to the wonder of YouTube, you get to view the very first time I have ever played a trumpet…

Day 5 1/2 was us getting together without John to do some work on getting arrangements sorted.   We focused on one that we haven’t worked on yet as a band called "On the Beach."   Everyone was pretty happy with how that we sits, so next was a run through of "Here Comes the Radiation."  This [...]