We Gotta Get Out Of This Place!

Hey there rock n rollers.

I went in with Peter today, picked up my notes containing the new chorus for "Eye of the beholder", nailed it, and if the other guys approve of it, im DONE. If all goes as planned, we will hand over the project to the magnificent Fredrik Folkare very soon now and we are pretty confident that he will deliver the goods behind the mixing table, just as he did the last time. But before he gets to do that, Conny is up for one final bass session come sunday, and after that, we will all sit down for a couple of days, listening hard, to see if we find anything else that we want to change (God forbid)..

Kind of fed up, ha ha..

All the best. /Fredrik

Yeeeeeehaaaaa!!

After many hours of trial and error I finally recorded a solo this afternoon on my problem child "Human Nature".. I also re-did some guitarfills and the solo on "Behind The Wall" and ended the day fooling around with my "bottleneck" on "Back On Track"..

As always, I know I can do better, but sometimes you also must know when to stop.. I´ll let the lads decide, as usual..

Nothing more for me to do, guitar-wise, on the record.. Maybe a polish here and there, after the lads had their say, but I can´t believe I´m actually done.. :-P

So now It´s up to Conny to re-record some of the bass-tracks and then It´s actually time to mix this baby.. !!!! Can´t wait to say the classic phrase: "-I´m proud now It´s out... "

Scatcat-Pete

Crazy Nights!

Oh my god... Pete and I had a fun but also a horrific evening in the studio tonight. First off, we spent several hours vocally remaking bits and pieces of the song "Back on track", and the result became quite different from the original vocals in the end. After finishing that one, we dug deep into each and every song, looking for stuff that wasn´t to our satisfaction. Finally, we came across a real bummer as we listened to "Eye of the beholder". It contains (as it sounds today) in my opinion, one of the absolute worst, boring, mundane, tedious, worthless choruses that I have have ever written melodywise. Soooo, that chorus HAS to be rewritten, there´s no doubt about that. Im gonna get started on the task tomorrow.

As for the remaining stuff that awaits to be recorded, there´s one guitar solo, a few rhythm guitar things, a couple of bass tracks that has digital distortion in them AND my new upcoming chorus..

Will we ever see the end of this? ;-)

Cheers. /A TIRED Fredrik

Le Gitarra Acoustice Le Fleu Un Fique...

Today It was time for me to record some acoustic guitars. Rick and Roge´ went along to coach me. The result was some additional parts on both "Stone Cold" and "Human Nature".

And before we called it a day I recorded a kind of baroque-sounding piece that actually I wrote back In my early teens.. It´s a song that that have been dear to me, all these years.. Just me and my guitar.

Until next time....

Make Gloves Not War.. ;-P

/Pete

A Work Of Art

Tonight me and Conny spent time with finalizing the artwork
for "The Greatest Enemy", or at least the basic design and
pictures to be sent to the layout-people we will endorse.
Even though we took a zillion pics at the last session it's been
worse than hell to select a good pic of the band, where we can
at least be 80-90% sure each on what we think is a good photo.
But tonight we settled for a picture, and some layout. It will rule :)
Coming up this weekend is the final (?) guitar sessions for Pete,
probably 2 songs need new bass-tracks, Fred will sing the last
few lines of the song "Back On Track", then we are ready to
enter mixing mode. It's getting closer,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, /Rick

Ebony And Ivory

Today was a great day in the studio. Jörgen Schelander from Mercury Fang joined us to record some keyboards, and he delivered with honor. A big thanx to Jörgen for contributing and making TGE a very special album for us, and hopefully for you out there.. :) Roger, the amazing trooper was as usual with us to document the happening and helping out whenever technical problems would occur.

No more sessions are scheduled for the upcoming week, but next weekend you´ll probably find at least Pete back in the dungeon again..



Jörgen in action..



Rick felt that he wanted to play some "bones" as well, but the result will never be heard or discussed in public ever, period... ;-)

Visit "The Fangs" at www.mercuryfang.com

Love, Peace and Metal Sneeze...

/Peter and Rick

Update From The Weekend Warrior..

Well, waddaya know.. After the latest guitarsession I thought I only had one more solo to do, but discovered that there´s a part on the song "In love" that I had completely forgotten. So this afternoon I fiddled around with that one.

The solo I recorded last time for the song "Human Nature" got all thumbs down from the lads, and I can do nothing but agree... (the picture shows the expression on the lads faces when I played It for them) It didn´t fit the song or the mood at all and I tried to work some more on that one today, as well.. I actually got myself a bottleneck and tried to play some slideguitar, but no matter how I approach the song, everything I did sounded like a copy of the "Stargazer-solo" on Rainbow Rising. So that one remains yet to be done :-(

Tomorrow, we´ll be having a special guest in the studio. None the less but Jörgen Schelander, keyboardplayer from Mercury Fang. So stay tuned folks!! It´s gonna be a blast..

Slidin´ Pete

I Am The Eggman!!

Or maybe not me, but Richard sure is.. :-) He played those eggs tonight like his life depended on it. Lots of eggs on the album, nice nice nice. Funky Metal Extravaganza!





Besides that, the evening really contained a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I recorded some short vocal stuff on a couple of songs, Peter Recorded some guitar fills and harmony guitar..





It really feels like the end of the journey is finally starting to stare us in the face. We have a few more evenings to go but in a couple of weeks, everything that will end up on the album will be recorded and done. Who knows, this might be the ultimate christmas gift of the year!!





Have a splendid weekend metalheads, see ya next week!! (Peter might check in during the weekend, you never know when he pops into the studio to lay down some nice icing on the cake that will become "The Greatest Enemy"..)


Take care! /Fredrik

Tuesday Afternoon...

.. and tiny Pete´s been busy again.. Left work after lunch and headed down to the studio to record the solo for the last song remaining. It´s not a coincidence I saved this one for last.. A kinda problemchild for me. This song "Human Nature" hasn´t got many chord-changes where I´m supposed to play lead, and I really need chord-changes to play around, or else I´m lost. So this one´s really a challenge. After 4 hours, trying out different aproaches, and with a growing headache, I finally got something on tape... At least a demoversion of the solo. We´ll gather in the studio on Thursday to do some more work and I´ll present my idea for the boys then..

Pete The Meat..