Tick Tock

My time off is quickly winding down and so it's now becoming crunch time.  I've actually been really good at working every single day since about last Friday-ish.  I only wish that I had started working on music sooner, although it's always difficult to get it going during the holidays, quite frankly.

Having said that, things have been moving along quite well.  I dare say that I've had a couple of songs that I hadn't even looked at in ages and decided to do a mix on out of the blue, and when listening back they were almost done and complete on just one pass.  I've got to say that I'm really liking this new reality.  Now, I won't know for sure how far I've really come until I start working on the Defrost Nixon mixes again, mainly because those are kind of a total nightmare due to the overall recording of the tracks, but if those goes smoothly then I'll know for sure that I've arrived.

The "...Fish!" songs and mixes have been going very well, though, and I'm just finishing up working on adding more drums today to the remaining tracks.  I'm a bit of a broken record on this but the new version of "It's Raining Elvis Fish!" barely resembles the original (which is good).  In fact, the original almost literally had almost no drums at all, in hindsight a fairly idiotic decision, and almost all of the new versions now have them with only a small handful of exceptions.  The additional instrumentation, redone vocals, etc. only have added to the richness of the songs and I dare say that I think this is a pretty decent album.

With only three more days off, I'm hoping to start attacking various guitar parts tomorrow and then some harmonies.  Once that's complete and if all goes well, I think the album will be just about wrapped up, with the exception of there probably being just a small number of additional passes on some of the mixes.  What to do with the actual album still remains a bit of a mystery, however, but I'll deal with that once I get through this step of the process.