~ My first paid studio work tonight ~

Last week I called Mischke, so fired up about choir rehearsal I'd planned to leave a msg singing Latin hymns.

However: he actually answered the phone! I said dang Tommy, now I cannot sing the Credo on your machine.

He said, I just did this ad for "All Inc" and I'm thinking "female vocals." He gave me a link for the unfinished

Youtube, I hit play/record on my little tape deck and recorded the ad via pc speakers ("children quiet, I'm re-

cording!") - and basically made up my part while listening to the cassette doing "mom" chores.

I must say I thought of The Swamp Kings, because a couple of their tunes are about food or cooking and "All Inc" is this

really cool kitchen appliance place - they sell the whole kitchen actually. Mischke'd said to do whatever I thought, so

I did, including adding a few lyric lines.

Tommy showed up at the house to caravan over to Graham O'Brien's place. Graham (Mischke's stepson) was the engineer

and is a fantastic drummer. All 7 dwarves were home, and several of them took turns bouncing on the Jeff F yoga ball in between vying

for Mischke's attention. At one point Genevieve (who turns 8 tomorrow) was standing in between her eldest brother Dylan and

Mischke, holding onto each man's shirt. I didn't know if she wanted to swing on a ride in between them or was just set

on not letting either of them go.

As we left the house, Tommy said he may run out of gas at any second and that he didn't know the way to Graham's from my

house. I assured him I'd keep an eye out behind me, and "just honk if you run out of gas!" It was a lot of turns til he knew

where he was, but before that I turned into a gas station. Tommy pulled alongside and asked, "what? Are you lost?" I said,

"I'm stopping so you can get gas." Tommy simply replied, "Oh, I'm not getting gas til after Graham's."

Mischke = fun.

We got to Graham's studio, met the dog and cat and began almost immediately. There was a window of one hour G. had to

give us that eve, acc. to Tommy. The ad is a cool little hip-hoplike number. We ended up doing 3 takes of what I'd worked

out, 1 of me attempting harmonies w/ myself here and there and 1 or 2 of percussive (vocal) sounds. I asked Graham if I

could play his drums (a TINY and very cute Donna Dahl-like doll house kit which sounded excellent!)

Graham was very nice, very good to work with, mellow and encouraging.

When we left, I pointed out the full moon, Tommy said he was re-doing some images and hopefully'd send me a link in 2 weeks.

"Should I follow you to the gas station?" I asked. Oh no, only to Smith Avenue, for it was 3 blocks to the gas station from there,

and all downhill so he'd make it for sure.

We nailed the session in 35 minutes.

The All Inc ad (thus far)

No Bird Sing (Graham O'Brien drums)

Woo - sha la la - HOO