I got into New York on Friday 14th. It's good to be back. It's the greatest city on the planet.
Our apartment is like a time capsule. Everything is where it was 8 months ago. Nigel was the last to stay there back in November. He had left a life size toy sheep as a thankyou. Thoughts of Gene Wilder sprang to mind. She would keep me company during the coming lonely nights. I say she but there was really no way of telling.
I met Emery and we ate at Lil Frankies on 1st and 1st then wandered back. Bumped into my neighbour Regina so we all sat and drank some whiskey and caught up on building news and general blah blah.
On Saturday morning, I rode my bicycle to the studio, master reel strapped to the front rack, back up reel strapped to the rear rack. Emery was waiting when I arrived. I hadn't considered how odd I looked until Emery started laughing.
The masters were handed to Noah our studio assistant, and he got to work setting it all up.
Emery soon began mixing Chinese Blues. Simply pushing the faders up, no EQ, it sounded great. I went out for a wander and let him get on with it. When I returned afew hours later, he had finished.
I asked just out of interest, to hear the monitor mix. That is, the mix that we had done in RAK studios when we recorded and my suspicions were confirmed. The RAK mix had the edge... it seemed less refined, more ballsy, rough, but still super hi-fi. Emery agreed.
Sometimes this happens when the monitor mixes have that extra something. We put the mix onto 1/4 inch tape anyways and made a version with no vocals incase some tv station is looking for a mime :) or maybe we go into the kareoke business...
Next track up was J. Smith so Noah set it up so we could start first thing in the morning. It was a long first day. We left the studio and wandered downtown. It was SO cold. I only brought a wee thin jacket. Diddy!
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