Ben Wysocki breaking out his grandfather’s custom-made vibraphone on a recent visit to Colorado. Mmmmm.
The title track from the first album I produced for Katie. I loved the idea of being able to write for an amazing vocalist and with this song, I finally got to do it. I had also been developing quite a fancy for her as the album progressed.
Marke posted this song this morning and as I listened to it for the first time in ages, I remembered all the disparate parts.
- We recorded Marke’s guitar tracks in the broom closet of the Lithuanian church we used to rehearse the Cinematic Underground tour.
- Zach’s drums were most likely laid down in the basement of our Southie house.
-The Fray were just starting to tour and Isaac gracefully recorded the piano parts DURING a soundcheck while Ben was actually playing drums for a different song.
-Mel’s harmonies were recorded in a Hyde Park bedroom.
-Phil’s bass was tracked in that house as well.
-Finally, I recorded the acoustic guitar in my cousin Adam’s Williamsburg rehearsal space where we tracked Katie’s vocals as well. Aaron mixed the song shortly after.
Firecracker, indeed.
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A Little Bit of Cheese
Chris, Katie and I dropped in to see The Fray play the Foxwoods MGM Grand a couple of weeks ago, and in doing so, got to fulfill a few life-long (maybe 1/3 decade-long, actually) desires in one night.
1. Every time we drive from Boston to New Haven, we always pass signs for these horrible, “almost-Vegas-like” casinos - billboards dotting the seaboard and advertising a slew of unexpected performers. I hate casinos, but then I kind of like them too. It’s pretty much exactly the same way I feel about shopping malls. You know it’s horrible, and it feels horrible for almost the entire time you’re there, but then again, it’s everything you could possibly want under one roof (as long as by “everything” you don’t mean “anything meaningful”).
Anyway, we all keep joking about going to see a show at one of these casinos because we all (and by “we all” I mean Chris and I, and not so much Katie) enjoy shopping malls and Kowloon and Casa Bonita. Thankfully, our friends from The Fray obliged and we got to see a real-live band-at-a-casino show, all for the price of a nickel slot.
2. Which means that we got to spend our show money (imaginary budgeting going on here) on a meal with the guys at Famous Top Chef Judge Tom Colicchio’s Craft Steak Restaurant Chain. Which, if you’re not getting my drift here, exists basically in exactly the same vein as Casa Bonita or Kowloon (or Disneyland or casinos or malls), only more expensive and with better food. I’ve been spending a lot of time in malls over the last week. You’ve got to admit, they’ve got lots of stuff.
I guess this would be the right post to confess that after finishing the gargantuan task of reading Infinite Jest, I immediately started reading the utterly horrible sequel to The DaVinci Code. I knew it would be exactly as bad as it is because I’ve read all of his other books too. Malls have Chik-fil-a too, which sometimes seems like a good idea to begin with.
Anyway…
3. At the casino, Chris happened to be wearing his ‘90’s (reissue) Van Halen Tee, and sometime after dinner when I wasn’t looking, he and Ben switched shirts. Ben rocked it up there for the whole show, and sort of made our night just that much better. The way that only an illustration of a lion wearing sunglasses breaking through a giant logo under rainbow-block-letters can.
Every once in a while, you just need a little bit of cheese.
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