recording with david in oakville.

We layed down the bed tracks for guitar and vocals yesterday. All 10 songs were layed down, starting with Whiskey Queen. David will record the drums over the next little while and then we will move on from there. I can say that there will be a few special guests appearing on the album. It still has no title, but at a later date I will post the tentative track listing.

In the meantime I've been busy booking a small spring tour with appearances in Ottawa, Montreal, Hamilton, St Catherines and many more, including some radio spots and some local press. I will be playing shows with Zachary Aasman, The Boogieman Jordon Daniel formerly of "The Gorgeous" and a folk act called Orangutan.

tour

4 dates booked, more to come. they will be posted soon.
i'm at the casbah for open mic next week, come hang out
pete

Friday the 13th in the Studio

Friday was spent in the Studio, first official "session" for my new CD. As luck would have it David's computer decided to go all Friday the 13th on us and not work, so we decided we would jam through all 10 songs, figure out the drums and work a bit on the arrangement of the songs. I was also able to chop out the songs I did't need and condense the album to the 10 songs.
I will be heading in again this friday to begin the tracking. So all seems to be going well. The CD is looking like its going to be pretty dark, and a bit different from the last EP.

ps. listen to Muddy Waters.

peter

new record. watchmen. duma key.

I hit the studio to lay down some scratch tracks Friday with David. It feels good to finally get the recording started. I'm also booking a 2 week tour of Ontario/Quebec too. Should be fun. I just started reading Watchmen, its good. Also reading Stephen King's Duma Key. Really good book also. Books.

Recording '09

So....um.
New record is being begun. Yes that does make sense. It looks like it will be commencing Friday.
I will indeed be making my first full length LP album. That means 10 songs (hopefully). I have peared them down to 18 and now they must become 10. Lots of surprises including guest musicians, and this project will of course be being produced by the multi-talented David Partridge. More updates to hopefully follow friday.

In the Studio with Zac

I have been in the studio the last 2 weeks for a bunch of days helping Zac record his first self titled EP. I co-produced the album as well as played slide and mandolin on it. Overall it was quite a learning experience with my first time in a producer role. Working closely with Tyler Mastantuono the engineer for the sessions. It was recorded at River 16 a studio located in Oakville, and it went really well. To hear the songs go to www.myspace.com/zacharyaasman
Here are some pictures.



















peace

Cancer.No, T-Shirts and CDs.

So as Saturday approaches and we celebrate 3 years of no cancer for Zac, Ive cooked up a few special surprises to add to the celebrations

1. MY First Ever TSHIRTS! (made by champion)



2. Special Edition CDs
Ive laboured most of the week to make a special edition of "Coming Down". The songs are the same but it has a brand new layout and the CD is a picture disk




3. Pete and Zac duet!
Myself and Zac will be sharing the stage for the first time in our solo careers to bring you a very special song.