POISON THE WELL - Studioupdate
... haben ein Update aus dem Studio online gestellt:
"HI there. As you may have already heard we will not be working with J. Robbins on our upcoming record. J. had a sudden and serious family situation to tend to and after talking it over with him we all decided it would be best to allow him the time with his family. Our thoughts are with him and his family at this time. We are very, very pleased however to announce that we have been working with our good friend and sonic smasher Steve Evetts (Dillinger, ETID, The Cure, Deadguy, Turmoil). We have been tracking for 4 days with Steve and so far are very happy with how everything sounds. A typical day you ask? Sure, why not.
Well, we wake up bright and early and party at the free breakfast buffet provided by our illustrious hotel then we head back to the room where dudes will do one of the following:
1.Go back to sleep.
2. Lurk the internet.
3.Shower.
4. Zip things up with great intensity.
5. Write in our "gournals". (10 points to the first person who calls this one.)
After one or all of the above have been executed and the clock strikes 11:45 a.m we grab our stuff and head to the van and back it into stuff a few times before heading towards the studio. The studio we are tracking drums in right now resembles a castle which is pretty cool I guess. Seriously, it's on a hill and everything. All it needs is a moat and we're in business. "I think tomorrow I shall ride a horse to the studio." These are the inner meanderings it inspires. Anyway, we shuffle into our castle were Mr. Steve Evetts awaits on his throne. Okay, I'm done with the castle references. So in we go were Mr. Evetts awaits with his wizard hat and garb on standing next to his mixing console stroking his long, silky beard and petting his mystical snow leopard (Wangcaster) with whom he takes to the studio each and every day to keep shit real. Did you know that Steve Evetts was a wizard? it's true. He's also eight feet tall and eats 36 channel mixing boards for breakfast. We get set up and eat a quick lunch that usually consists of: (I love lists....sorry....actually, not sorry)
1. Ramen Noodles- Jeff.
2. Hot pocket- Ryan
3. Tofurkey Sandwich-Bradley G.
4. Veggie soup of some description- Brad C.
5.Turkey sandwich- Chris
The above tend to change but for the sake of brevity lets just say thats the lot. After lunch we get started tracking. We are live tracking on this record which is nice in a few ways (list??? Nah...) in that we are getting a very organic sound from it and it's a lot less formulaic. We do this until about 6 or 7 when we break for dinner which usually consists of the following:
1.In n out burger.
2.Chipotle.
3. Subway (where in no particular order we discovered Vanilla Coke in the soda fountain, super MILF and a dude who looked just like Van Morrison)
After dinner we head back to the studio and spend the last few hours working on whatever track we started earlier that day. So far we are keeping a good pace and we put in 12 hour days so there's very little down time, which is good. So there you have it. In conclusion I would like to take the time to paraphrase this blog so that it might be easier for you to talk to your friends about. What's the use in getting all "wordy" anyway right? Alas!
Let me set it up for you....
"Hey man, what are those crazy Poison The Well Guys up to these days?"
To which you should reply...
"Well Robert Pureman, I'm glad you asked because........
Poison the well are recording a new album in California in a castle on a hill with a wizard who has a mystical snow leopard as a pet. They eat breakfast in the morning at their hotel and eat lunch at the castle and eat at subway for dinner with Van Morrison and a MILF while drinking vanilla coke."
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That should do it. Thanks for reading,
Bradley Grace
P.S) Our PTW custom vans slip on is up for auction on ebay. All proceeds go to the keep-a-breast charity for breast cancer awareness. Bid high and bid frequently or the snow leopard and Steve Evetts will suck your soul out through your eye socket."
