Strangers With Guns "Degenerate Art" 4

 The album cost me and only me 3350. I had recorded 8 of the tracks previously with a session drummer, when we finally went in as a 3 piece i booked 4 days for 4 songs just because I didn't know what standard the lads were at, ricky had told me previously rennick was a disaster in studio and the majority of the kma recording time was spent on drums and the engineer fixing the drums. The 4 days cost me 1k, and getting Mik Pyro in was 300, it was interesting getting him in, he was due in Thur, and messaged me on Sunday asking if we were still on. I couldn't get a hold of him before that. I had to jump in the car and race out to get him and bring him back and we were down to the last 3 or 4hrs and already at the mixing and mastering stage, I do like mick richards, but I'm a cowboy like, and I recognise other cowboys, he knows how to manage the clock. I think he is worried if you finish early he wont get fully paid off you or something so draws it out, but I can never get out of their fast enough or spend enough time on the mix really, so has nada to worry about as i'm sure he is aware of now 3 yrs later.

Side note, Rennick was fine on the drums, he played "Now Wait For Last Year" way quicker then how it was intended but it came out sounding better, that has happened on a few tracks, sometimes its better sometimes it not. I think "Never Thought About The Money" was a bit faster too, the 4 the lads played on where

Now Wait For Last Year

Too Tired To Sleep, Ok To Drive

Never Thought About The Money 

Bert Sugar

Some of the bass was Dave Grohld on

To give ricks some credit, brining him in on vocals clearly helped massively, I think our voices played off against each other well.

I will say there was no tracking drums or bass first, ricks was 4hrs late and I had done scratch guitar and bass, he was infrequent throughout on all recordings, especially when he was asked for money.

Also when I first went in there I had no idea what to expect and had to do "Spaceman" to a click, it was incredibly daunting, I was not prepped, couldn't remember the amount of times and never played with a click before, I thought we would be live tracking. 

When "Degenerate Art" was done I felt content, like I was proud of it and if that was the only thing I ever recorded I would be happy.......I was wrong.