Pipe Street Studios

BIG East goes the the Recording Studio

We had our first recording session at James Gordon's Pipe Street Studios yesterday.  After a five hour journey (2 hours late) due to traffic... ugh! BIG East finally arrived.





James Gordon

Pipe Street Studios is three small rooms crammed with recording and musical equipment, located in Guelph, Ontario.  We were joined by Randall Scott (currently touring with Sylvia Tyson in Quartet) on Drums and Jesse Turbon on Bass! We laid down rhythm, piano, guitar and vocal tracks for "Home To Stay".  Then we worked on "Hey Carolyne" and added a really cool bowed bass part to the piano section as well as a really killer drum part.  In "I Die For You"  the rhythm provided by the percussion section really adds to the vibe, but it sounds (at least at this point) very much like our arrangement in our Backstage BIG East #3. 

When we head back for our next session in January, we'll be laying down vocal tracks for "I Die For You" and "Hey Carolyne" as well as getting started on the next three songs. "September Rain", Across the Water and a song to be decided on.



Those of you who have had any experience of working through the studio recording process, can testify to the fact that the process is painstaking hard work but incredibly fun for musicians.  It's the place where you can see your musical ideas come to fruition and where all of your previous practice and planning can be seen and heard, tweeked and geeked.



Randall Scott



It was a great experience and I look forward to heading back in January for our next session.  I think everyone was a little nervous to start, we all came together and made some beautiful music. By 7:00 pm we were done... that is exhausted.  We headed out to the local pub for a tasty supper and a beer right after that.  Yummy!