Another long day at Infinity Studios, with Adam Sutherland and his craft, another long day of percussion, inventing new terms for everything, debauchery, coffee sweats and an unfortunate hockey game in the middle, another bright and lovely day spent inside.

Lewis drummed and we joked the whole time about specific phrases that never get played by drummers anymore (ie. the 90’s hip-hop shuffle, the 8-beat random-sounding drum-roll), all the different ways you can write and imitate drums sounds with your mouth and how cymbal shots sound absolutely terrifying without a kick-drum under them.

We were also dressed in our finest summer apparel, cut-off shorts and flip-flops, and discussed how as soon as we have to spend 10 hour shifts indoors, in a loud, hot and sweaty room, the weather blesses us, and our opportunities to go to the beach and drink Mai Tai’s or whatever are slowly diminishing. Keeping this in mind, we decided to take a break for some BBQ at Adam’s house, where we watched a rather disappointing hockey game, screaming in a crescendo at the television all at once, played with Adam’s dog “Telecaster,” and listened to the new Death Cab album on vinyl.

We finished up later in the evening, 11 drum tracks ready to be mixed, content with our accomplishments, and also, happy that Lewis was able to make it into Adam’s extensive blooper collection. As promised, we will have more of our adventures and exploits from inside the studio to report later this week when we begin tracking intense riffage and bass by Dan Ball.

FYI, Dan has been practicing up for the last two weeks, with the help of this video:

I think it’s working.