Sound Sanctuary, 15 November 2008
 On
a dry, hot windy day with a lot of brush fires around Southern California I
blew in to Phil O'Keefe's
Sound
Sanctuary recording studio in Riverside, CA to purchase his Digi002 from
him and hang out and play guitar on the upcoming Zak Claxton release.
Zak Claxton played guitar and sang, Bunny drummed, Program Girl (unfortunately not pictured here) took photos and assisted, and Phil recorded. The control room for Sound Sanctuary. |
 Bunny
showing off his high-hat, autographed by Stewart Copeland. |
 Phil
setting some microphones in place. |
 I
cannot visit a recording session at Sound Sanctuary without the requisite
geeky microphone setup photos. Here. Phil has set up an SE mini-Reflexion
filter and some Auralex foam pads on the snare mic to provide some isolation
from the high-hat. |
 Phil
continuing to set up Bunny's drum set. I have more photos of Bunny's
drum set than of Bunny. Sorry, man, that's just not right... |
 Zak
Claxton laying down a solo on the song "The Sands of Redondo". And
actually, what Zak had us do was each have a short solo in Dm. I
started first with an e-Bow solo, sort of mimicing ocean waves.
Phil threw down next with a psychedelic backwards guitar solo. Bunny
was up next with a dirty and somewhat Arabic-sounding bit. Then Zak
Claxton played an equally dirty sounding, frenetic solo to lead back into
the vocals. |
 Phil
recording Zak's solo. |
 Checking
out the solos.Insanely great fun, playing music and hanging out with Phil, Zak, Bunny, and Program Girl!!!! Thanks to Phil for his recording expertise, help, and warm hospitality!! Thanks to Zak for letting me play on his song and for letting me gulp down his Gatorade and Doritos. |
Sound Sanctuary, 15 November 2008
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