How does that saying go again? Is it something along the lines of, “Nothing worthwhile happens overnight?” Why isn’t there an equally true proverb stating that “Anything that takes forever is automatically deemed worthwhile?” If that were the case, Soul Plane’s upcoming demo release Black Box is going to be worth so many whiles you’ll spend your whole life bumping the shit.
Because hot damn, we thought we’d have our demo in our hands, ready to distribute by like, two days ago. Cut scene to the winter holidays, shortly after too much snow stopped us from doing not enough work (see Mother Nature 1, Soul Plane 0 blog). I had called Dave (owner/head engineer at Machinehead) the day of in hopes that we could reschedule our recording session for as early as possible, because Blythe had a lot of vocals to record. He told me that we’d either have to do it right away (in a week’s time), or wait until after the heavy-duty renovations to the studio that he would be starting in mid-January were finished.
Since I am a man that goes deaf when he hears “no” until it somehow becomes a “yes” (like that Corleone guy), I intuitively tuned out everything Dave said after he gave me the “right away, in a week’s time” option.
Cut scene to the middle of January, no more than a week or so after the final session we had at Machinehead Studio to record Blythe’s vocals, no more than two after I had blocked Dave’s studio renovation plans out of my head, Kevin and I got talking and we decided that it would be best if we sat in on the mixing and mastering process. I called Machinehead Studio and got no answer. I left a message. Several days later, when I still hadn’t had my call returned, I called again, and was surprised to see that their voicemail box was full. This was not good.
I started worrying that they had shut down and boarded the place up. I started worrying that the time, money, and energy we spent on recording this entire demo was in vain. I started worrying that maybe the reason Dave made Harrison co-owner at Machinehead studio was so that he could bail out, declare bankruptcy, collect whatever insurance, and pin the blame on
“I did, you idiot. You don’t think I would have done that first? They didn’t update anything.”
“Is that a MySpace link there? Maybe they’ve got something there.”
Two blogs on Machinhead’s MySpace answered all of our questions:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
| | STUDIO MAKEOVER! so here is our first blog! and what a blog it will be... we have some big things going on. currently we are doing (ahem) minor renovations. and man is it going to be awesome. the best part is!! i don't have to do any of it! lol i've set up shop in my room to get the mixes done while harrison, alex and the boys get'er done. you can check out our photos to see up dates. i will try to update the pictures and the blog on a daily basis! |
Thursday, January 24, 2008
| | STUDIO MAKEOVER! Pt. 2 so here is update 2!!!! things are moving along great, as you can see in the pictures. all of the flooring is done for the control room which is good because the custom desks are arriving today! all the slate has been put down in the bathroom and it look awesome with the green. when its all done that is going to be a bathroom you would be proud to poop in! so hard at work, the boys are staring on the live room now, priming and painting! just wait till you see what we have planned for in there! so that's it for me today, i have to get back to my basement cave (which i posted pictures of) currently i'm juts getting things ready to be mixed, so when everything is done and the gear is in i can blast out some awesome mixes. so look out for some amazing tunes from SWEET NIGHTMARE - THEORY:ASTRAY - RUSSIAN RULLET and SOUL PLANE.. |
Okay, so maybe he wasn’t running away to
Sit tight, ladies and gentlemen; despite unforeseen delays, Soul Plane will still be taxi-ing off the runway momentarily.
