Thurs April 2, 2009:- Jason drives from Ottumwa, IA up to MPLS and arrives at 2AM
Fri April 3:
- Start w/coffee and muffins at Minnehaha Coffee @ 11
- Start @ 11 30
- Set up mics, screw around with preamp choices etc. Make a decision!: to high pass filter the room mics or not!!!????
- Spend an hour trying to figure out a way for the drum machine to behave like a metronome
- Go to Radio Shack and get an adapter for Jason's ear buds
- Eat a Fast Eddie's S + P Pizza, extra sauce
- Worked on first tune, working title Uzi Suicide
- Finish at midnight
- Watch the brunt of "Love, Sex & Death 101 on Showtime
Sat April 4:
- BC wakes up at 8:45 and goes to the Y
- Coffee and Donut at the Minnehaha. Get Soda + Tea for Jsunn.
- Redux drums for Uzi Suicide from the night before
- Move on to other songs...record drums for 5 songs
- Poor Jason being driven rode hard with B's perfectionism and tweakhead nature
- Ate a Papa John's Pizza: picked up in Uptown on Hennepin
- Went to the final Maps of Norway show at the Turf Club. Excellent.
- Ate some great Tamales from the Turf
- B has trouble sleeping all night, obsessing about the high pass filter decision from Fri!
Sun April 5:
- Wake at 9:45
- Coffee and muffins at Minnehaha
- Start at 11:30 on "Hawaiian Punch"
- Shawn Jones comes over to film some recording footage
- Lunch @ the Mall of America where Jason wants to check out some sneakers. Qdoba for B and Chinese for J. Sneaker's purchased from Journey's. Mission accomplished.
- Come back and discuss list of tunes, and how to proceed
- Work on Styxx
- Finish @ 10:30
- 3 songs done on Sunday
Mon April 6:
Jason drives back to Ottumwa