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00:00:37:08 We've got the old man on stage just ripping it all up.
00:00:42:23 Yeah. Just pretty cool.
00:00:43:28 And he'll sometimes even play on our recordings and stuff too,
00:00:47:04 he's just... he does a... he plays some classical guitar on
00:00:52:02 one of his songs, one of the Baby Eagle covers and stuff
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00:00:56:28 It sounds like you and your brother have a very
00:00:59:13 like cool and healthy relationship
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00:01:03:13 Well, they let us build a studio and that...
00:01:05:17 Yeah, that's right.
00:01:06:16 With our bare hands, not even our carpenters,
00:01:10:05 they just let us tear it apart and do it.
00:01:11:18 Yeah, with the building of a studio,
00:01:13:15 you guys are recording like all the time now?
00:01:14:28 We recorded the new record on a... you know what it is.
00:01:18:14 Yeah, it's just an A track digital recorder.
00:01:22:28 It's the same thing that we did before...
00:01:24:03 Yeah, the same thing, yeah.
00:01:25:02 Well, I had no idea.
00:01:27:04 That sounds really, really good.
00:01:28:28 We have had that machine since...
00:01:30:11 well, for forever pretty much.
00:01:31:21 Sincerely, that the old has...
00:01:32:28 What is the actual machine calling?
00:01:34:23 It's like a Yamaha like MD-8.
00:01:37:07 It's just like 8...
00:01:38:22 you can record 8 tracks and if you wanted you can get to...
00:01:41:03 -Then you've got to bounce to... -Yeah... mix it down and then start there again.
00:01:44:08 Wow!
00:01:44:28 Oh, yeah, that's a funny thing.
00:01:46:21 When we were recording, the Stop button
00:01:49:07 on the machine is broken and the way to save tracks
00:01:53:08 is you're supposed to click the Stop...
00:01:55:07 double click the Stop button, right?
00:01:57:10 So, we would finish recording a song.
00:02:00:11 We never... I don't...
00:02:01:28 were there any songs that we used more than 8-track sound,
00:02:04:03 I can't remember, maybe a few.
00:02:06:08 I think, we might have added a couple of things after,
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00:02:09:08 The majority of the songs were, we only used 8 tracks
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00:02:14:24 and we would mix it right away...
00:02:15:28 On the machine?
00:02:17:02 Mix it on the machine and then put it onto a CD,
00:02:20:16 because we couldn't risk having,
00:02:23:04 because if the machine would shut off,
00:02:25:03 the song would be lost.
00:02:27:21 As soon as we recorded another song,
00:02:28:28 like that's it,
00:02:29:28 like you didn't have the other song saved in it.
00:02:32:08 So, it's like, okay, is this good?
00:02:36:18 We did it quickly too, we recorded ten songs
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00:02:42:08 But, working kind of straight
00:02:44:18 and then we did three more songs at Shotgun Jimmie's
00:02:48:21 when we were there for Sappyfest and then we came home
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00:02:54:20 again in the basement.
00:02:56:10 But, in total,
00:02:58:00 it was all done pretty quickly, I guess.
00:03:02:03 I am like completely shocked.
00:03:04:28 On an 8-track, you made that, is just absolute...
00:03:09:02 like on a broken A track as well.
00:03:12:18 Broken Stop button.
00:03:14:11 Well, we had taken... took the recordings to Dan Weston
00:03:18:13 and he made it sound a lot better than,
00:03:21:08 I guess, we had it sound.
00:03:23:03 I don't think that you're getting anymore enjoyment
00:03:26:17 out of a record if you paid...
00:03:28:10 a million dollars recorded the top of the line studio
00:03:30:27 and there is absolutely no hiss into it.
00:03:33:05 Recording on yourself, you can get a soft spot
00:03:34:28 for how it sounds and you have it sound exactly
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00:03:38:04 Yeah.
00:03:38:28 And we're kind of not an inclusive band,
00:03:42:26 in that we like doing things only ourselves.
00:03:45:20 Yeah.
00:03:46:10 And so you don't have anyone else...
00:03:49:28 Whether or not it's true or not,
00:03:51:03 but we feel that like things can
00:03:52:28 well maybe just unconsciously that it can...
00:03:54:28 things can be tainted if it's out of our creative command.
00:03:59:03 I kind of thought that the studio was down in your basement
00:04:01:18 and like you had like a really cool setup and like all that
00:04:04:21 kind of stuff and like... yeah, but just knowing that
00:04:07:10 you just kind of like did it or not, that's amazing!
00:04:09:23 It's amazing, you've blown my mind!
00:04:11:08 There are some trinkets that we...
00:04:12:21 they have... I mean Dan has always collected lots of nice
00:04:14:28 microphones that we used in the wedge.
00:04:18:18 Wedge, yeah.
00:04:19:14 Oh, the Effectron too is one thing that we used.
00:04:21:26 Drum machine that we used a little bit on the record too.
00:04:24:15 No, we think that Bruce - like there's other tubes in it.
00:04:27:28 Which one?
00:04:29:00 -That get used for some robocops... -Like the tube preamp.
00:04:32:07 -Yeah. -I like that.
00:04:33:18 What would you plan through for guitars?
00:04:35:08 I think, generally the Champ is used for everything, right?
00:04:38:22 I think almost everything was in the Champ.
00:04:41:22 Except for the stuff at Jimmie's house where we used the Peavey,
00:04:44:20 his Peavey amp.
00:04:45:21 There's just this little Fender Champ, about this big...
00:04:47:20 Yeah, most of the guitar was like that
00:04:50:28 and we used an organ that we are given by Andrew Dench,
00:04:56:07 one of our friends from Marytown.
00:04:58:03 -Dench? -Dench, yeah.
00:04:59:29 It's beautiful, I don't know what kind it is, but...
00:05:03:20 That's a Hammond.
00:05:05:09 -Hammond. -Wow!
00:05:07:01 -That's a nice gift, ha! -Yeah.
00:05:09:03 It's nice for those organs.
00:05:10:10 That's really nice, yeah it's awesome!
00:05:11:28 -That's how the organ sounds. -Sounds amazing!
00:05:14:13 And I remember Dan putting like a delay pedal on the drums
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00:05:17:28 There's one song that starts out
00:05:20:23 where it fucks up and then it started again kind of thing...
00:05:23:05 -Oh, yeah. -And song before that...
00:05:24:03 That was a... we recorded that at Dan Weston's
00:05:25:28 as a little like addition
00:05:27:18 or like segway in between songs
00:05:29:28 and Dan was playing the piano and I was playing the guitar
00:05:31:28 that you can't even hear on the recording,
00:05:34:28 -and we were both singing. -But, it's there.
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