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stephan jenkins of 3rd eye blind

ATTENTION ANYONE I'VE EVER HAD THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION WITH -

me - "third eye blind sucks"

you - "really? i kind of like that one song"

me - "well then clearly something is wrong with you, because they are the worst band in the world. second only to 311"

you - "hmmm, well, that singer is really good and that song is super catchy"

me - "you are dead to me"

look, i know we went through some rough times. but seriously, i could not justify associating myself with you after you displayed such a reckless and harmful love of total crap music.

well, im giving you one more chance to redeem yourself (i'm looking at you dustin). go here, listen to 'nondairy creamer' and then in the comments section please explain why you were wrong, why you were nearly as retarded as mr jenkins himself, and why you are sorry for ever supporting such sonic injustice. then maybe, MAYBE, i will forgive you.

man, that song is terrible.

the return of the neon trees

thank goodness for the neon trees. things slowed down big time come october and i suddenly found myself quite unemployed when along they came.
we started out with overdubs on 4 more songs from their la drum sessions.

branden played the burns bass through the svt for most of these songs


tyler, elaine and chris show how glamorous the studio experience is


nate from code hero came to hang out

the following week we got to work on 6 new songs. it was great to get to track some drums and help build these songs ground-up.

overheads-u87s, kick-beta52 and blue mouse, snare-audix d1 top 57 bottom,
toms-audio technica atm25s, hat-414, ride-km184, front of kit-aea r88, room mics-blue kiwis

bass on the new tracks has been mainly branden's new lakland pbass through the svt, the b-15 or the sansamp bass driver, which really sounded great.
guitars - mostly les paul or 335 through the hiwatt, the orange and occasionally the silvertone 1482. also, a bit of jazzmaster snuck in there.
keyboards - direct with a lot of echo farm, amp farm, pitchblender, and massey tapehead.
vocals - wunder cm7-adesigns p1-chandler ltd-1 for eq-germanium compressor-distressor-apogee

more vocals to record tomorrow....