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Studio Sessions more...........................

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:16:19 -0700

Back in studio......Thursday nite...most frustrating session yet. I did get my rhythm track down on Juke Joint Showdown. We are having trouble working in Dwayne's guitar work. He is a killer player, but his style just had trouble with this tune. Dana is going to take a shot at laying some short rhythm stabs down to get come character and balance to what i am doing. Hell..we are still on the first song. I won't write anymore until more significant progress is made on these three tunes. The studio IS NOT fun and games..but stressful and pretty much a pain...not to mention. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Loyd

Studio Sessions III

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:30:00 -0700

Tuesday 8/24.....Dwayne Janzen came into studio and we worked on Juke Joint Showdown.

Got Dwayne's guitar dialed in and Dana ran him through a EMI pre-amp...vintage...tubes.......can you say Abbey Road? Hot tone. He layed a rhythm track and put some lead in. This song rocks and has lots of short breaks....proved to be more difficult than I thought it would be. This is all we got done for this session. As you can see...very slow and tedious work. I am going back to studio.....Thursday August 26th again.....put my permanent rhythm tracks down. I have to get my Fender Twin Reverb fired up...and Dana will get me hooked up with some hot pedal to get me that hot crunchy sound I want. Thanks for reading.

BLOG UPDATE STUDIO SESSIONS II

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:46:30 -0700

Back to studio Thursday night, 8/19/2010. Was going to get drums tracks put down. But first had to get better scatch (not permanent) vocals down so song would be easier for Dana to follow on drums...and Dwayne on lead guitar later. Got this done..and added scratch acoustic guitar on 2 of the songs to beef it up some and make it easier to follow. We then did some editing of the tracks.....beginning and ending...increased or decreased........made it tighter.....Friday night i went back...and we got the drum tracks down. They are HOT. Dana has new vintage EMI tube compressor he is running drums through. Snare, toms and kick are FAT sounding. Songs are taking shape now. Things are ready for Dwayne to come on Tuesday evening to do his thing. Dwayne played on my Real Stuff CD....2006..check that out...he is a killer player with great tone. Will update again next week.

STUDIO SESSIONS/DANA LONG/VISALIA, CA

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:32:07 -0700

I went back into studio last night to start laying down some new tracks. I am once again working with Dana Long who I worked with on my Human Project II, Humanized CD. I focused on 3 tunes....River rock, Right Wing Billy, and Juke Joint Showdown. Circumstances were not ideal in the studio to start with, so i worked with a click track and layed down a scratch rhythm track to each tune. I brought John Dees in to lay bass lines to the songs. This was not the ideal way to get the bass tracks done, but John did a great job staying with the click and getting some of that Dee's personality into his bass lines...while at the same time..not losing what I like for my Human Project tunes. John does a great job with my songs. It is difficult to do this with no drums....not many could do it. So, I now have a scatch rhythm guitar track and solid bass track on 3 of my new songs. Next, I will add scratch (not permanent) vocals to all the tracks and then have Dana Long put the drum tracks in. The songs then will start to take on some personality and life. Dana is a killer drummer. After this, I will bring in Dwayne Janzen to put the lead guitar parts in, as well as some of his tight rhythm chops as well. Then songs will be framed and I will have to evaluate where I am in terms of money..etc..and see if I want to do a couple more songs...starting with scratch rhythm...etc...all over again. So...this is where I am right now.......just getting started......its a long process, and I am not in any hurry this time.

Thanks for stopping by and reading.

Human.

Human's Garage Podcast

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:47:43 -0700

http://www.thehumanproject.podomatic.com

Human Into Blues Hall of Fame

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:51:17 -0700

The Human was nominated and admitted into the blues hall of fame on March 10th, 2010.

Check it out!!!

go to blueshalloffame.org...click on local blues artists...Fresno, CA

HumanProject on itunes.

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:54:27 -0800

Go to links on this site, then click..then click on Human Project on i tunes and get ya some!

Ne CD

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:05:43 -0800

I have just finished up 4 new songs in the studio and I am going to include them on my new Best of The Human Project to be released in January of 2010. The cd will also have 12 of my hand-picked favorites for your listening pleasure.....16 songs...77 minutes of music. Yeah. Are you ready for that?