On the big stage

Well, the band is doing some recording this weekend. I'm both pretty psyched and pretty nervous.

Pretty psyched because it'll be good to finally get these songs down, so that we can use them to get some gigs and set up a Myspace page, etc. Also, I'm psyched because we'll be recording on the stage at the Majestic Theater in Boston. Our bass player works there and, since there are no shows there this weekend, got us in for the recording. This should be pretty awesome, since we'll be recording on the main stage there. And although there will be no one there, this will be the biggest stage I've ever played on.

But I'm also pretty nervous for two reasons. 1) Recording is stressful. No matter how well you know the songs, there's that extra added pressure once you know the "tape" is rolling. Especially in this case, as 2) we will be recording the band mostly live. We'll be overdubbing vocals and probably solos, but everything else will have to all be done in one take between the rest of us. So not only will we all have to get our parts right, we have to all get them right together, at the same time.

At any rate, we're hoping to do four tunes. Right now, the plan is to go in Friday night and set up as much as we can. Saturday will be for recording the band. Sunday we'll possibly go back to record the vocals. We can record the vocals anywhere later, if we want, but we'd like to try and get as much of them as we can in the same acoustic space so that it'll be easier to match them up in the mix with the rest of the instruments.

So, that will be my weekend.