kristin hersh

24 October 2005

Lovely, Ugly Lime Green

We are back in lovely, ugly LA and it feels good. Nobody does lime green like the city of Los Angeles.

After 2 days of rehearsal in Our New Practice Space (the new Pasadena Rehearsal Studios: an amazing building, beautiful, funny people, great pizza, a Leggo room!) we began recording yesterday morning. Rob's basic tracks were almost done by the time Bernie and I left late last night, so I'm expecting the new recording is well on its way by now ("I'm making a record...while I sleep!"). I'm not exactly sure what Rob thought he was gonna do without us, but he seemed to have a plan, so we left him to it.

We are working with the producer, Mudrock, ex-Boston guy, in the Eagle Rock studio he built pretty much with his bare hands. So far, he's really cool...very musical, with a buttload of amps and stomp boxes, a good ear for bass AND drum sounds and a catalogue of a brain when it comes to bands and recordings of the last 20 years. Yesterday, I tried like, 50 guitars before we settled on our top 5 favorite sounds and Mudrock had a credible reference for each sound. I was impressed.

He also makes really strong coffee. I learned to make black, silt-like coffee in New Orleans and I get a lot of shit for it from people who almost die when they drink it. It's nice to be poisoned by someone else for a change.

Love,

Kristin

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