lovely ones,
it's just about 1:30 AM, and here we are in the studio just finishing up the last day of basics for the new record.
i'm fading, so i won't stay long, but i've been wanting to post here. so far it has been a beautiful experience. i
am so excited about these new songs and how they are coming to tape. can't wait for you all to hear them. at
this very moment some overdubs are going down. shahzad is putting some extra guitar onto "lions in the storm".
the mellow and mighty cool joe blaney has been engineering these basic sessions for us, some of you may know
that he did "combat rock". yeah. kick ass. i've always loved the clash. in fact, one of the reasons i was swayed to go with radioactive all those years back, was because mick was there, and so were the ramones, i guess i figured if it was
bad, at least i'd be in cool company... anyway, joe's dope. he also did all this stuff with charly garcia, who's like
the rock hero, the dylan of argentina. I didn't know joe had worked with him. strangely enough i was in a charly
garcia video back in '88 or '89 that my friend mariano shot at ex funeral home. anyway, we've been working at joe's
studio here in soho, actually, a block from the apartment i lived in when i met oren in '90, the last place i lived before
moving to brooklyn. yesterday we tracked at avatar (the power station). it was magical. the room sounded great, and it
was really something to be recording on december 21, the shortest day of the year. and also dee-dee's birthday. she
would have been 90 yesterday. we tracked "bum raps" there, and it felt so right. i could feel her. we were there for the
piano sounds mostly. good to have all that isolation. james and claude were so solid, and thomas ignited the yamaha
grand. oren and i just did our thing and delighted in the sounds all coming together. soon we will be reuniting with our
old friend bryce and he will wave his wand over this new work. i can't wait to start my vocals (i'll probably track most of
them at home again). the guys say i should keep some of my ghost tracks i layed down from the basics, we'll see.
anyway, for those of you who came to northsix last week, thanks for coming out and thank you all for all the years of
love and support. please have happy holidays and a fruitful and healthy new year. much love, jennifer xxxx