Last night was quite productive. Jay and I spent some time working on the drum tracks for the new CD. Hopefully, it'll be out before the end of the year. These things take time and patience. Thankfully, he and I work very well together. We listen to each other and are constantly trying and discussing new ideas. We worked on getting the kick to sound like we wanted, same with the snare. Then we added 2 electric rhythm guitar tracks, one clean, one dirty. We also added an acoustic guitar track to the whole thing. It's weird but the acoustic mixed in with the 2 electrics all blend in to make one big rhythm guitar track. The song we were working on was an upbeat, edgier tune called "50 Miles". It's not an acoustic guitar song at all, but that acoustic mixed in the back gives it so much more life, makes it much fuller. Listen to all The Stones stuff and you'll hear an acoustic guitar way in back. It's on old recording trick. Finally, we added my lead vocals. We still have to re-record Jay's lead guitar tracks, as well as Chris' bass, and then add backing vocals and possibly some tambourine. It's a long and arduous process but I feel really good about finally getting this disc rolling. In total, we'll do 11 or 12 songs for this release. Rob's drums are done as far as recording. He'll still have to record any percusion parts (tambourine, shaker, etc.), and all his backing vocal parts. Jay and I will have to go back to each drum track and EQ the hell out of them. Actually, it's Jay who does all the technical stuff. I just sit, listen, and offer up ideas. As you can see, it's quite a beast to tame. Time and patience will hopefully deliver us a killer sounding record. Take care. Later, Butch