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Recording Session
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Adam, clearly calm (before he started recording). Partaking in a little XBox 360 while the drum mic placement is underway.
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Joe, also pre-recording. Pictured here with the sh-t eating grin only Joe can produce when beating someone else severely in Fight Night Round 3.
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Adam getting ready to start recording on the drums.
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Adam in action. Never before has his drumming been so closely listened to.
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Leif laying down some of the "scratch" vocals and guitar, pictured here with a beautiful new Martin D-28.
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Adam and Kenny on the famous couch (pictured numerous times here). Note the smiles and optimism that are common early in the sessions.
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Leif and Joe pictured here between scratch tracks and answering Adam's accusing index finger.
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Adam, just as he is about to put the accusing index finger away.
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Kenny on the couch. Just so d*mn photogenic.
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Nick doing scratch vocal and guitar work, pictured here with a beautiful well aged Martin D-28.
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Joe, making sweet sexy love music on a Fender bass guitar.
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Leif responding to another request to redo a take.
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Joe, pictured here as his expression is changing from bemused to "you'd better put that @%# camera away".
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Craig, pictured here with his agent and sound consultant (son Cameron).
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Adam, Kenny and Nick offering up well thought out and meaningful input to the recording process.... NOT.
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Nick (aka Nicky-tips) pictured here in his "before" shot for the upcoming Weight Watchers advertisement.
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Adam and Joe at about 12:30 AM on Tuesday. Clearly the studio romance has worn off to pure fatigue.
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Kenny raptly paying attention to the way the song "speaks to him"
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Adam, Leif and (visitor) Alex getting some quality time together on the famous couch.
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Leif getting dual mics set up for the real guitar track recording. Pictured here with Bryan (the studio owner) hard at work.
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Nick, playing some lead work, pictured here playing an Ibanez S-470-BK (and a T-Shirt displaying an unrealistic sense of optimism about his playing).
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Nick, playing more lead work. Is that a Pentatonic scale again?
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Kenny giving his best "I'm just too sexy" look.
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Kenny with his sax in hand. Go figure.
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Leif getting set up to do some violin work.
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Leif, again asking how many more takes will actually be necessary here.
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Joe and Leif, now delirious, unable to distinguish night from day in the enclosed studio sound booth.
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Joe on the couch, sunglasses in hand, wondering when the heck we're leaving for lunch.
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Joe as he realizes the answer to "when are we leaving for lunch?" is "not anytime soon."
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Leif, pictured here recovering from a slight fever the previous day. At this point, his voice is completely gone.
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Joe, Leif and Adam, pictured here late at night wondering if the purpose of recording your songs is to make yourself hate them gradually.
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In a moment of "blind" rage, Leif reaches out to give Joe what everybody thinks he has coming.
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Moments later, rage subsided, Joe, Leif and Adam have a moment of band chemistry, complete with secret Italian hand signs.
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Leif and Adam, listening to playbacks for errors (something we spent a good amount of time doing).
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Bryan, studio owner pictured here doing what he does best. No jokes, he worked harder than any of us, the whole week.
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A typical band moment. Adam (the victim) in horror, as Kenny (the witness) laughs uncontrollably, while Joe (always the victimizer) swings a foot Adam's way.
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Kenny and Leif on the famous couch.
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Shaker, Take 2 - Adam takes first dibs at trying to re-lay some shaker work that was not quite on the first time.
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Shaker, Take 3 - Adam having failed (a drummer), Joe steps in for a try.
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Shaker, Take 4 - Both Adam and Joe having failed now, Kenny steps in and tries it.
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Shaker, Take 5 - At this point, Adam, Joe and Kenny have failed. Unwilling to let Nick even attempt it, Leif steps in and takes charge of the shaker.
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Leif pictured here listening as some of his keyboard work MIDI playback is reviewed.
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Craig, Cameron, and Joe re-enacting the "to the band!" moment on the CD.
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The band against the control room backdrop.
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The band (except Craig who is holding the camera) pictured with Bryan at the end of the week. Thanks again Bryan!
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