We're pretty much done tracking all but 2 songs and have started the laborious task of mixing. if only we had more cowbell.

Ok, so it's been a while sinceI posted an update... thanksgiving happened.. other things too i guess... mostly I've been tracking a lot of vocals, and keyboards, and some trumpet, trombone and saxophone too!

We're getting close to finishing tracking, then we mix it up, master it down, and get the CDs made.  it's not looking too good for the CDs to be ready by the 18th for the show at hawthorne, but we will probably have a few copies by then if anyone is interested.

also Tony and I will be playing a show the 13th at Ash st. with Hello lobster if anyone wants to come hang out that night.

peace out.

-Taylor

Yesterday we finished up Brian's guitar tracks, and his vocal parts so he could head back down to Eugene. 

It was also picture day.  There are new photos up from that. :)

We're still at it, a week in to the recording process, and we are making some serious headway.  Most of the guitar tracks are done now, Today we do two more drum tracks, then guitars for those two, then guitars will be done!

Then we move on to bass, vocals, keys, etc...

Tuesday was an amazing day to record.  We made music all day and kept stopping to watch election results.  It will be amazing to be able to listen back to this record and remember making it at such an amazing time in american history.

here's some more pictures:

We are still hard at work on new music.  We have finished our cover of 'myspace' by the punk group.  it came out pretty rad, mostly because of the talkbox.

Brian is up from Eugene to track his guitar parts and we are making great progress. 

I also headed down to eugene on sunday to track viola, violin, and cello with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, those kids rock! so we have some killer string tracks for our yet-to-be-named album closing track.

Today we will get more tracks done, and keep an eye on election results.  if you haven't yet... go vote. it will make you feel better.

here's some more pictures from the past few days:

We are 3 days in to recording our new album, We have tracked 12 songs worth of drums so far, some acoustic bass, and some percussion.  So far its going great.  This is our first time recording with our new drummer Tony. He's doing a phenomenal job.  It's really coming together nicely.  We can't wait to post these new songs for you all to hear, but we have to track quite a bit more before we can do that. 

here are some pictures from the first few days:

Well, we all made it home safely, except Zac who stayed in Tokyo...

the day after the last show we went and saw the great wall of china, tiananmen square, and did some shopping.

we got fake rolex watches.

We packed our bags and came home.

after a lot of flying, we made it back to america, and now 2 days later... we’re still a little jetlagged.

but we all survived... and it’s great to be home!

Thanks for keeping up with our blogs.

We had a great tour.

-Taylor / alterEGO