Thursday, Nov 15, 2001

Drum recording wrapped up last night, ladies; drum recording wrapped up last night, gentlemen. In just under four hours, the WAS team knocked off some nine songs in quick succession, Michael laying down flawless track after flawless track. So puzzlingly proficient was Michael last night that the rest of us found ourselves making quips along the following lines:

• Damn, dude!
• This guy's like a living drum machine! A living, breathing, stinking drum machine!

That final one turned out to be eerily prophetic as, near the end of the session, Keith "Good Eyesight" Murray noticed that Michael didn't really seem to be making contact with his sticks. Verbally cornered, Michael finally emptied his pants (of course) of their contents: a drum machine, which he had rigged up to one of his mics. Craftiness and a willingness to deceive are two of Michael's most shining qualities.

Yes and so that ended three days of drum and bass recording over at Devious Semantics, which recording, as mentioned, was sufficient to polish off the drums; not so with the bass tracks, which -- due to Chris's intricate lines, highly nuanced delivery, and general incompetence -- are scheduled to be completed by fall of 2005.

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