SLIM BUT NOT ALTOGETHER SHADY.
Check out 'Unidentified Hit Record' by
Minky Starshine, which I mixed 7 of the songs on it, plus sang, played keyboards, percussion, guitar, etc on it. Mike Musburger is the drummer on this album, it's a great, great, pop record.
This weekend I didn't go to Tours. I have too much to do here in Paris and will be working thru the weekend. I have been getting close to finishing the Bud Reichard album; we received our last tracks--pedal steel from Patrick of Red Jacket Mine, and some tack piano from a guy in Seattle. So, mostly I've been mixing. I played some bass, and we did some vocals, and dug into mixing. I followed my basic instinct, then let Bud turn things around to the perspective of his instincts, which was great. There were many times when I thought--no way, dude! That will sound horrible. And I was dead wrong. And so I learned a lot from Bud, really. He hears things from a different perspective, and it's the incorporation of different perspectives that makes you a better mixer.
On Tuesday I went to see the War on Drugs at the Maroquinerie. They are a three-piece, with the typical kinda Paul Westerberg/Kurt Cobain holes-in-my-jeans, scruffy type singing/playing guitar/keyboards; the typical 'no brand names, no style, no fashion cuz that is a sure sign of slavish devotion to THE MAN'--in other words, Steve Albini, et al, on Bass; and big ol' hound dog of a drummer, who was musically the most sound of the band. The singer had the unfortunate ambition to play a 12 string acoustic guitar live, which meant LOTS of tuning. But, they are a good band, but, also they are really indulgent (I forgive them for this) and very, very dron-y. In fact, they drove an audience of about 100 that came for this little festival at the venue down to about 20 people in just 8 songs. No encore.
On Wednesday Dom & I had dinner with the
Kim Brothers, formerly known as Shaolin. Charlie has just scored B13U, the new Luc Besson film. They invited us out to their flat way way out in the 17th, and stuffed us with foie gras, sauternes, Vietnamese food, and chocolate. Oh, I felt so freaking tired the next day, but it was a lovely evening.
I visited the
Red Wheelbarrow, to order some books and buy one in the meantime.
But beyond that, I have been in my studio pretty much all week.
I did put together some cupboards for Aden's room with Dom. Assembling Ikea is what families do together in this age....
Love
KS
Paris
