My Easter Sunday started with me cleaning up after a heavy night of Poker (Heiny knocked me out with trip Aces). I was picking up a chair and carrying it over a couch and the seat part of the chair fell out and hit me straight in the corner of my eye.

To cheer myself up I ate 3 Easter eggs and had a big swig of coke. After a healthy breakfast I walked over to the studio to start on the bass.

Today Mike joined the rest of Unwritten Friday to a hectic 7 hour game of Paintball. They asked us if we’d like to join them but they had their own custom guns and gear so we thought having our limbs attached for the rest recording would be a better idea.

So Chris, the second engineer and ex-Tweak Bass player, sat at Mike’s desk and tracked two songs on Bass.

Chris is WAY more clued up on bass tones and frequencies than me. All I told him is I want the Bass to sound like the balls, compliment the kick drum and sound sorta like Eddie from Thrice.

My Cort Jazz/Percussion Bass was sounding shit, so Chris whipped out his insane 5 string Fender Precision Bass guitar. That combined with the fattest 800W peak Ampeg Bass amp with a Gallien-Krueger head and 2 hours of working with the tone, if God had balls these would be bigger.

Battle was a piece of cake but History and the Making was tricky with 5th string getting in the way for the fast palm muting. After removing the string and sound sneaky editing the song was sounding awesome.

The Fender really made all the bass chords sound sweet. The beauty of recording is I could listen back to the Bass with the drums only, then with guitar only and Chris and I were throwing around ideas and added some awesome new parts and even removed a couple too. All with the goal to compliment the build ups and choruses.

Chat soon,
Rob

I’m happiest during times like these.

Minimal responsibility, listening to every Bad Religion album back to back, beer crimes, spending precious time with my best mates. On top of this today I got to record guitar on 2 tracks. The set up is awesomoooo. Ibanez S540 strung with hybrid Ernie Ball 9ths, D’Addario prop-grip 1.21mm plectrums lined into a vintage Mesa Boogie. Goddamn the tubes on the Mesa are hotter then an Oman’s summer day.

Practicing with a click months prior sure made tracking a breeze.

Ahhhh JHB ain’t too bad.

Quote of the day: “Don’t reason with it…dominate it”.

We had another heavy meet today at our manager Bryan Swanson’s place.

After a few beers and brownies we got down to planning a few shows in JHB while we there, also lineup a few interviews and finalizing recording details.

We’ve confirmed a minimum of 10 days to record the 7 tack EP at Truthcore Records studio in Roosevelt Park, JHB and a maximum of 14 days. We confirmed with Gareth Dunn (Truthcore CEO;) that they’ve still got that awesome Mesa Boogie and have added two keyboards including a fat Yamaha baby grand electronic bad boy.

We also really dug the drum sound from the Battle for the Sky track so we’re working on a similar setup.

EP Track list coming next week!