Lemmy Kilmister is God of Rock N Roll and Whatnot or How To Defy The Laws of Tradition In Conjunction with Gravity's Constant Pulling Teeth Scheme

Thought I'd update the blog a tinsy winsy bit since I've been really really busy lately and haven't had the chance to do so for a while.

The lead vocals are recorded. Great stuff. Was a really really tough month (June/August). Recorded the vocals in Porvoo. My day went something like this;

7:30 am - Wake up, drive my kid to kindergarten
8:20 am - Home again, back to sleep
9:00 am - fall asleep
11:00 am - alarmclock wakes you up, snooze
11:30 am - coffee, breakfast
12:00 am - read email, check facebook etc.
1 to 2 pm - go trough last nights lyrics
3 pm - go pick up Janica
4 pm - in Porvoo, pick up food
5 to 6 pm - start recording
8 to 10 pm - best results, "gold time" as we get into the whole production
11 pm - stop recording
12 pm - home again, eat something
1 to 3 am - write new lyrics for songs that's about to be recorded
4 am - try to sleep
repeat

Pretty much 1,5 month of that, every day. Some day's we didn't get much done, some days we got loads done. At the end I started to see daylight hallucinations because of the insomnia that schedule caused to me, but we got those goddamn vocals done!

That's the way I like to work too, it doesn't matter if some days are bad. Working on your own schedule, we can truly concentrate on getting the right emotion and articulation on tape and not just be a slave to the clock.

The lyrics we're done on such short notice because most of the vocal melodies were still under construction when we originally started the recordings. But let's not go into that finger-pointing game :P. The only reason it was possible for me to write the lyrics like that, was because I've worked on the lyrical concept since December 2009 and knew exactly what every song was going to be about. Some even had real song titles before a line of lyrics were written. Just had to gather the words and put the stories into sentences.

The last weeks my Pro Tools 002 started to brake down, constant power harness failure and overheating issues. Shuts itself down randomly. Then we'd have to wait for 15-30 minutes and try to start it up again. Those problems ate up a lot of our schedule too.

And it was hot like hell. Probably the hottest summer, and no AC (because of the noise), small cottage, closed headphones etc. So it was pretty tough :)

From the vocal side, the only thing missing is the harmonies and background vocals in general.

/Jonas