Got a full night's sleep and felt pretty much 95% this morning (well, afternoon). Got up and went in the studio at 1pm. Stephen, Dave and Chris ran through "Left to Lose" a couple times last night after I went home and had a killer take of it. We tried it a few times today but ended up using last night's version. Next, Chris laid down the bass part using a 1960 Fender P bass. That finished made 2 songs done for the rhythm section. "She Won't Last" was next.

This one was more tricky. We found out that we naturally play the different parts of the song at different tempos, so Gummo made a "click map". This is a click track that Stephen can listen to as he plays so that the different parts stick to the different tempos. We tried it a few times, but it didn't feel very "live" so we played it with the click for the first verse (which is slower than the rest of the song) and Gummo took it out for the rest of the song from the first chorus so we played it more "live". This approach seemed to do the trick.  Once we got  the drum take, Chris got to work on the bass. We spent the rest of the night on that. He did some looking around and discovering of some cool new parts to the song. Tomorrow the plan is to track the "Someone Else" acoustic guitar, and "Ashes". We have decided that "Ashes" sounds much better live than how it came out in the studio, so we are going to try that one again a touch faster. I just checked out 6767.com and found out that Tom Morello and Nuno Bettencourt came by last night after I took off. Ahh, well, you snooze, you lose.

It's a drag, but I am getting the feeling that I won't have any time to work on the cover art til after the studio time is done. It sucks because I am really inspired to live in painting mode for a few days. All other areas of life get the mute button turned on when in the studio. I think when this run of studio days is finished I am going to lock myself in my work room and live in art world. It's 1:25 and Chris just finished his part, now we go home.