Four Person Splunge - Not Very Efficient, but Some New Songs

Another session with the core four. We got off to a very slow start this time. Jason had upgraded to a better microphone for his Garageband set up, and I was having some trouble with my pedal board, ultimately going without it. It took us about an hour and a half to get set up to record, and even then, it was with the previous mike.

Jason was off this time out, and admitted he wasn't as prepared as he should be. Even so, we were able to add "She's Electric" by Oasis, "Substitute" by the Who, and "Can't Go Back", written by yours truly. "She's Electric" was best of the three new songs, largely due to Nick being especially well prepared for it. Good vocal, and Jason had at least some idea of what he wanted to do with it. Most of us had our individual parts for "Substitute", but the timing was really bad, so we didn't spend a lot of time on that one. "Can't Go Back" shaped up pretty well from the guitar end, but Jason said he wasn't feeling it, so we didn't spend a lot of time there, either.

Nick effectively doubled the number of songs he is singing lead on, which I was glad to see. My congestion problem was substantially back, since I'd had a cold earlier this week and wasn't fully recovered. There were a few songs that sounded pretty good ("She's Electric", "Margueritaville", "Runaround", and maybe "Suspicious Minds"), and we're continuing to tighten up now that we've stuck with a core group, but damn, it's a slow process.