DAY 6 – March 31 RECORDING THE NEW CD

Well last night we hit the breakage trail. One of the Genelic Monitor drivers blew up but luckily we had another one to use in it’s place and when Phil was playing some Hammond Organ parts the belt on the top horn of the Leslie snapped.

We are in the middle of nowhere and being Saturday it was a tough call to expect to find one but super roadie Christos has found one where he lives and he will have it with us for the start of today’s recording. This is good news otherwise we could not lay down the Hammond parts we want to. Well on the subject of mishaps while the breakfast was being cooked this morning the grill caught fire causing much screaming and shouting. The place was full of smoke.

Had Deep Purple not beat us to it with a more glamorous location we could have written “Smoke in the Chapel – Fire in the Sky “ Still it was quickly brought under control with a fire extinguisher by our producer Mike who is now our resident fire fighter, and all is okay. Trevor went home last night to take care of some business on the home front and is not coming in today so Phil and I have been playing Guitar and Hammond/Piano parts all day.

After reviewing and taking stock of where we are with all of the songs thus far we will probably wind down about 11pm. Every track we put up to listen to has its own magic so all the signs are good ones. Bernie and Christos went shopping to replenish the stocks so we are all set for a couple of days.