Oh Lovely
This has been one great week for us at Sky Bison. We’ve been finishing up the Lakes album counting down the days to Superbowl Sunday! Our Arizona Cardinals have brought all kinds of excitement to this beautiful state.
We’ve spent a couple days working out drum sounds for the song “Oh Lovely”. Our inspiration has been that of an early elton john style (for the drums at least).
We removed the bottom heads on the toms and the outer head of the kick drum then tweaked the tuning for a while until we found that sweet spot. we really deadend the snare, then livend it back up until we found it’s sweet spot. With the company of 13′ partially cracked hi hats, a 22′ vintage ride and a 15′ thin cymbal, we found ourselves exactly where we wanted to be for the drum sounds on this song.
We tracked and tracked then Jason said “Okay imagine it’s Nineteen Seventy Something…. you’ve got a big gig playing for Elton John…. get into the mood… feel the vibe.”
So I did just that… I imagined a dark arena with me on this old kit, on a big drum riser… A big spot light on elton playing a black grand piano. I kept my eyes closed and started to have so much fun that I had to occasionally open my eyes… I was afraid I would fall off time I was getting so into it. So anyways… it was a funny thing to do… but afterwards Jason and I just laughed because it was the best take all day!
This album has been a lot of fun for us and I’m sure it will be equally as fun to listen to. Look for it later this year.
We will all be at This Daily Summer’s show this friday, hanging out.
It should be a fun night…
It’s at Modified Arts at 7 PM.
Everyone should come hang with us.
-jon
