Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Philly Paper Cat Recording and Upcoming Show




This past saturday morning, I drove out to Philadelphia, PA to write and record with Paper Cat.  Our small goal is to record an e.p. and the big goal is to record as much as possible!

We recorded about 3 hours of improvised music on the first day.  Second day, recorded as much as we could trying to get good takes of what we wrote.  Next session is in two weeks to tighten up everything and record more, plus rehearse for our show at the Kyber coming up December 11th.   Some pics of the session can be found on julie's blog:

Gear I used:  Italia Baritone Guitar, Gibson ES-335, Musicman combo RD-100, Mesaboogie 1x12 cab, Ampeg Combo 1x15, Digitech Whammy II, MI Audio Crunch Box, Vox Wah, Fulltone Soulbender, Boss DD5, Boss Tuner, Electro-Harmonix Small Stone.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Paper Cat news

Paper Cat - the band, featuring yours truly with Eric Slick and Julie Slick, will be recording an e.p. in Philadelphia within the month.  A few weeks ago, we had a pre-production conference meeting via video iChat and it was very productive as well as funny and new.  Julie gave me a live video tour of her recording studio and it seems it will be just the right atmosphere.  We discussed gear, studio layout, song material, improv, food, drink, sleep, film, and schedule.   We all seem to be looking forward to it and I plan to warm up for 5 days in advance before the sessions.   We also took screenshots of our video chats.





I set up my pedalboard, including a Delay, Wah, Whammy (peevish name), Distortion, Fuzz, Phasor, and Tuner.  Got it plugged into my home stereo and I'm not sure if i'm blowing my speakers or not but I love the way guitar sounds through a home stereo.





I think, for the sessions, I'm going to bring a solid baritone guitar and semi-hollowbody electric and use two amplifiers running at the same time in stereo, most likely using my 1x12 combo amp and one of julie's guitar amps.  I'll also bring a couple more microphones and we're gonna "just do it" after setting up and record music in the same live room.

Keep checkin here for more updates about the recording..... but also check out julie's blog.

and....

We have a show on December 11th at the Kyber in Philly opening for Cheers Elephant.  It will be our second show and by then we will most likely be finished recording our E.P.  I believe we are going to be the 2nd band of 5 bands to play.

I am proud to leave you with this picture; from a show I played with AudraRox for kids recently at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens, NY.



Photo by Kim Parker Russell