Tonight Edge laid down rhythm guitar tracks for ‘Wrecking Ball’ and ‘Lovin’ You, Impaired.’ Edge worked long and hard on these tracks. We’re recording straight to 2” tape (we’re all big analog fans), so there’s no slicing and dicing this time around, just a few punches here and there by Punchmaster Mags. Mags and Edge [...]

We’ll keep this entry short and sweet (Pats are on at 1:00). Today Jacquese finished up drum tracks on the ‘Luck,’ and also nailed ‘Highway Ghosts’ in three takes. Goose also redid his bass tracks on all five tunes, and at this point, we’re exactly where we expected to be in the grand scheme (ok, [...]

Things are coming together very nicely here in the Land of Thunder. Thus far we have drums recorded for four of the five tunes in this session (in case I forgot to mention, we’re doing the record in two five song sessions with hopes it’ll allow us to focus more deeply on each song instead [...]

Upon arrival to Thundering Sky tonight, I found the boys fine tuning sounds and tones for our first session. The plan was to knock down at least one song tonight, and at this stage, that essentially means getting a keeper track on drums. Steve and Mags (from this point forward, we’ll refer to Chris Magruder [...]

Thundering Sky Sessions – Preface Every time I’ve been into the studio, I’ve experienced the anxiety of an expectant father outside a delivery room. Lots of things go through your head, such as “Will this record be the one that gets us signed?” or “Am I about to waste ten-thousand perfectly good dollars on something [...]

Last night was a homecoming of sorts, a blissful revelation after nearly three years of revolving through various seacoast venues, trying to match the magic we used to encounter back in ’00 Biddy’s days. To paraphrase EB White (and I’ve sourced this before), it was like leaving home, coming back and seeing it for the [...]