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[Steve Luongo]

Day 10

Day 10 started with the early morning moose vocal.  I  had the pleasure of
added a vocal track that was an octave below John's vocal which is no easy
task.  This was done in the middle of the chorus section of I Wouldn't Sleep
With You and we did it at about 10:30am to preserve the low end morning
phlegm sound.  We got it too! Godfrey say it worked because I'm part
phlegmish. (not really).

Enter Godfrey who is always a stickler for perfection.  He insisted on doing
some guitar vamp repairs.  We didn't want him to change anything but we gave
in and as a result his parts were even stronger.
Godfrey and Alan worked on the jig in the studio while John and I prepared to
lay down some rhythm section grooves for Cakewalk's new digital audio
program.  These short rhythm tracks will be made available to other composers
through Cakewalk's Musician's Toolbox.  The idea is to let people use our
tracks to create the rhythm section for their songs. They can edit and alter
the tracks to suit their needs.  We headed down to the studio and laid down
the tracks with Bobby.

After this was completed Alan, Godfrey and I went in the studio to finalize
the arrangement for the jig and put it on tape.  The next step is for John to
add his parts.  We are looking forward to his input.

Now it's dinner time and then into the lounge for a movie.  But before
tonight's feature we went into the bar ( for a change ).  Alan had broken
John's record on Asteroids and  now felt that I had to join this competition.
 Godfrey wanted to play too so we set it up for 2 players.  Watching him fly
the little spacecraft around made me realize why I used to drive myself to
gigs.  He'd zoom off the screen, start to panic and ask " Where's my little
guy ?"  In the heat of the competition we were joined by a fat little mouse.
  He was walking through the bar so calmly that I asked John "Is this a
friend of yours?"  He replied yes, no, yes he is.  We ushered him to the door
but not before he turned to laugh at Godfrey's poor video game technique.

Godfrey and I went to the lounge to begin watching the movie of the night
which was Tombstone.  This film is one of our favorites.  We had it on the
bus for the last tour.  Footnote: every film we had on the bus had explosions
and screaming in it.
This list included The Specialist, Gettysburg, Natural Born Killers ( Godfrey
still has nightmares from that one) Starwars, The Battle of Britain and
Speed. Needless to say it was tough to get any sleep while someone was
watching a movie with the surround sound cranked.

We had just started the movie when John and Alan came in the room and asked
us to watch Euro  Trash on regular TV.  We agreed and for the next half hour we
were entertained by some of the weirdest things I've ever seen on a TV
screen.  This program included an old guy in a penguin suit eating raw fish
and I don't mean sushi.  However there was a section that featured sushi that
was served to the customers on a naked girl.  You can't make this stuff up
folks. We asked "Is this regular TV?"  John just smiled.

After our short detour through the bizarre we continued watching Tombstone.
 John disappeared and returned with a book about the old west.  We needed to
know certain facts and John provided the answers.

At midnight Lisa showed up with some crumbled birthday cake.  Yes it's my
birthday now 9/21.  Godfrey passed on the cake fearing the sugar would keep
him up all night.  He soon retired and the rest of us yacked until almost
5am.  Good cake!  John took me to the snooker room to show me a painting of
Butch Cassidy's gun.  As you may or may not know John is well versed on the
subject of the old west and antique firearms. I then found an old book titled
The Who in Sweden.  John told us the stories that went along with the
pictures.  It's hard to believe that the kid in those 30 year old pictures is
our bass guitarist.

5am time for bed.