C.H.I.P.s Corea

It has taken me a while to get over the stirring (though exceedingly premature) epitaph that Keddiz has written below, but we did work last night, and I may as well tell you about it.

I brought a lot of instruments, but used none of them. Right now my Elvis Costello Signature Fender Jazzmaster is cowering in a corner of the studio, crying to itself, shaking back and forth, fearing the next time that Danny will pick him up and play “Misty Mountain Hop” or “More Than a Feeling” or “The Theme to ‘The Last Dragon’” or whatever the hell it is he does when no one is looking at him. I am going to have to have it professionally cleaned.

Instead, we focused on multitracking and layering Glens upon Glens. Hot Glen on Glen action, if you will. If you’re a Glen fan, you were filled to the gills with Glen’s thrills and chills. Or something.

Here are some things that Glen can’t help you with: oboes, clarinets, funky clavi.

However, he has strings-a-plenty, and several realistic trumpets that he’d be willing to share with you.

Glen put some boomin’ Moogin’ on “Setting Fires for Fun and Profit”, some synth spikes on “Fur Lined Collar”, and a symphony orchestra’s worth of strings, trumpets, “french horns”, flutes, bassoons, babboons, rusty trombones, Sun Ra’s Arkestra’s, Sunny Delights, and lots of things that are NOT oboes or clarinets, on “Everything and Nothing is Fine”.

He just doesn’t have oboes and clarinets.

Stop asking.

Thursday it looks like we are, at long last, going to have Miranda, the second of our former-Venus Trap “twins”, showing up to do her vocal parts on “Twin Language”! We’re very excited to have her over and will be very, very pleased to put the song to rest at long last.

After that we’ll probably have Glen take another stab at the (not-butt) trumpets on EaNiF, and some sort of synth on “Setting Fires”.