Stephen Lopez
Rick’s McDonald’s Birthday Party! (Taken with Instagram at McDonald’s)
And then we watched Iron Chef Super Chef Battle until 2am.
I don’t even.
One year ago, in Chicago, with Rick and Steve Albini.
I’m not sure I’ll ever get over how surreal those few nights were.
There’s a kind of statement spoken here.
I’m only reblogging this because I’m not sure that my bandmates are angry enough with me lately and the fact that I mostly agree with Gibson’s ad should serve to increase that anger. I gotta keep them on their toes, you know?
(via bucketbd)
Faith Hill likes Aerosmith.
30 second Janie’s Got A Gun + Faith Hill “Sunday Night” mashup.
My boy Rick knocked this one out of the park.
Stitched pano of FMGreen while mixing in Studio B at Electrical Audio. There are no words.
Awesome.
Tonight, Steve Albini continues to play with his computer whilst Scott plays Call of Duty Black Ops and Rick watches.
Meanwhile, back on planet reality: holy shit what the shit is this really happening?
Oh Brother (by steelopus)
Everyone thinks they’re twins, so they took your assumption and ran with it when we were staying with Toni and Dan last night.
From the people you are trusting to make an awesome rock album, I offer you this.
…barbershop raga…
…oh yes we did!
All of these instruments were recorded after 1:00am. That should give you a pretty good indication of how awesome this album is going to be.
Vocals are done. Auxiliary parts have been recorded. All that remains for the Victory! Sessions are a few guitar re-amp tracks, some acoustic guitar tracks, and some minor track editing. Then we’ll sit on it for a month before we drive to Chicago to mix. These are exciting times!
A stitched panoramic photo of FMGreen during the Victory! sessions from 11/11 to 11/14 at Casa de Lopez. Only a few more sessions before the big mix in Chicago. The anticipation is mounting.
Here’s the view from behind the console while we were tracking the drums for Victory last Thursday. Generally speaking, recording sits just behind performing live in terms of things that I most love doing. It’s a hell of a lot of work, but few things are more satisfying than hearing your songs take shape.
That’s a good bet.
Day 2 of the Victory! Session is complete. We’ve finished all the drum takes and have made good progress with the bass overdubs. Saturday we will finish the bass and move on to the guitars. Things are really starting to take shape and we’re quite pleased so far, but much work remains.
Yesterday I asked for some images of modzilla.
This one came from Rick via email. He never lets me down.
Click-through for some crazy sick animated gif action.
I told Rick he couldn’t post this “robot rapist” joke unless he MS Paint-ed it.
Mission accomplished.
No Context Theatre
“Or maybe we could go for broke and get 50 hippies wearing tapestries.”
