Recording Session Update

Hey everyone,

Well the recording is underway down here in Hollywood and CTM is kicking some serious ass! The 2 months of intense rehearsal is definitely paying off in the studio. Tomas had set aside 2 days for the drums (Mon and Tues) -- well, Eric pounded out ALL 10 drum tracks in 4 hours on Monday night! Brian kept up the same intensity by starting the guitar tracks on Tuesday night and finished ALL the rhythm guitar tracks (and I mean there are many layers for each song) at around 3 am. They sound tight!

Yesterday we started around 2pm and Brian was done with ALL lead guitar and overtone parts by 7pm... the guitars sound huge with these unbelievable hooks that push the songs forward!

I had just flown in from Sac at 1oam and joined Brian and Eric at the studio yesterday for Brian's lead guitar and overtone session. So now we are basically 2 days ahead of schedule and Craig can't get here until Friday mid-day. So at around 9pm we started busting out my lead vocal tracks -- and not to pat myself on the back too much, but I nailed 6 out of 10 tracks last night! We finally wrapped up around 2:30 am - my voice was too fatigued to keep going.

Today we are going to record the remaining 4 lead vocal tracks and start getting the backing vocals going. Craig arrives tomorrow and he is going to be blown away -- just like I was when I showed up yesterday and heard Brian and Eric's work. I'm telling you people this album is going to be UNBELIEVABLE!

We're taking photos and video along the way so stay tuned for some of those... :-)

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