Recording "Road Map to the Soul" Part 1

Well what an accomplishing weekend. We all woke up and arrived at Ante Up Studios (Cleveland, OH) around 10am Saturday morning (June 13, 2009). Marco was all hungover from the Tequila him and Alex pounded the night before. It was great! You can just see the buzz on his face. Alex, was fine! Must be nice to have such tolerance! We met up with our Engineer Jimmy and began loading our equipment to set up and begin recording our new album "Road Map to the Soul".

It was a slow start at first because Jimmy was flying solo on Saturday. No interns to lend him a hand in the studio. It was no big deal because it only took him about 2-1/2 hours to get the gear and drums properly mic'd. Recording got underway and I (Justice) spent most of the morning posting details to our twitter site.

John our Marketing and IT guru from G-Management came along to video record all the hilarity's and craziness that would take place over the weekend. Unfortunately Kim our manager could not make it but she made sure she cooked Meatballs on Saturday for us and they were AWWWEEESOME! Just before we began recording we all had to set up in different rooms because their weren't enough isolation booths within the studio. What was funny as hell is we set up Tyler's rig inside the women's bathroom. We we're expecting him to play in their to just for laughs. Either way, the whole rig in the bathroom produced a killer tone and sound for recording. So, now if you ever need to list the uses of a bathroom; of course, why in the hell would you make a list! But, if you do, you can list the following uses (doing your business when nature calls, sex, and great location to mic an amp for recording). Ha! Go figure.

Well, 7 hours later on day one, we managed to record all the bass and drum tracks for the record. It felt like we we're in fast forward. We packed up and left around 9pm that evening. Not too bad. Marco and I decided to celebrate one hell of a productive day with a few of our fans at the Hi Fi (Lakewood, OH) that evening. By now Marco had all ready sobered up, so he was cool to party. We enjoyed ourselves listening to some good stoner rock bands. It was nice to be reminded that night that I don't have as much of an alcohol tolerance as others. My brain was in quite the frenzy! Man, gotta love Astro Bombs. Believe it or not, they went well in between all the Guinness I was drinking. Don't worry I was safe, the bartender (Our Cover girl Leah) made sure she sobered me up before I left the bar that evening. Marco however was in much better condition than I was. He did not drink as much this evening, especially after getting plastered the night before! He even got his but whooped by Yoda on Friday night. LMAO! Oh, I'm sure he'll tell you the story if you ask. He He He.

So, the next morning we arrived back at the studio, except this time I was the first too arrive. Shocking as I was the one who drank the most the night before. Well, correction, John showed up first, then me! :-). Day 2 got underway, and we started off by listening to the tracks from the day before. Inspecting them for any errors. Once that got done I went back to posting on Twitter and Marco got underway with doing his touch ups. Soon after, Alan started working on his. Well around 2pm on Sunday, we took a break to let Jimmy and his band perform at the Cleveland Police benefit show at the Hard Rock that afternoon and got back around 4:30pm.

We finished up Al's tracks and proceeded to do vocals. Well, things were going great until my schnoz touched the mic and screwed up one hell of a good take on one of our songs. I got so pissed at the moment that I decided to skip the song for the day. Thankfully the rest of my recordings did not have any flubs. However, due to our extended break we had to end at 8pm as scheduled because another band was booked for the studio. So in short, we successfully recorded all the music and we're able to get the vocals done for 5 of the songs for the album. All in a matter of 2 days or 16.5 Hours to be technical...

We shall return back to the studio on July 5th. We wish everyone a safe and fun 4th of July weekend coming soon and hope to see as many of our Ohio Fans at the Wheels of Steel Benefit on June 28th at the Nautica (Plain Dealer) Pavilion.

Keep Rockin

Justice
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3SO Performs with Candlebox at Ohio Bike Week

Well, after an amazing time performing for hundreds of people at the Broken Spoke Saloon in Sandusky as part of the BAS Broadcasting Battle of the Bands, we found out late yesterday evening that we won said contest and will be peforming with Candlebox at the Sandusky Fairgrounds during Ohio Bike Week 2009.

Ohio Bike Week 20093SO with Bartender Kristi of Broken Spoke Saloon 2009

The show was fun despite the fact that a minute into our song "Beat You Down" all of the microphones cut out! The guys were awesome and kept on playing as if nothing happend. Once I ran across the stage testing all micrphones, I decided to play me some air guitar on stage and jump around with the music like a freak. LOL. Its a show and it was one hell of a good time. The sound tech finally got the mics working at the ending seconds of the song which was nice. So, just to add some of my own fun, I decided to climb up all PA speakers and sing the next song, just to make certain that they knew not to leave the sound booth just in case the sound should go out again! It was hilarious. I also scared the crap out of a few people.

Flashbacks of me falling off the Roc Bar stage and busting my head open on the concrete floor came to mind. HA HA HA!

All was good though, we had a blast all the way until the end. It was a real pleasure meeting up with the other bands that were competing in the contest, Lonsome Pony band, Flash House, Power Trip and The Zeppos. All these bands were great and we encourage everyone to check them out!

I do want to thank the guys from Lonsome Pony for being really cool about us playing our cover of "Born to be Wild" by Steppenwolf, in honor of Ohio Bike Week. Lonsome Pony was the first band to perform that day and had did their version as well. Unfortunately, a lot of people did not get to hear how good it was, so we felt the crowd should hear it just one more time that day.

Then before the evening ended, I made certain that my ass was whipped by Kristi the Bartender of the Broken Spoke. She was such a sport; she pulled my belt off with her teeth and made me assume the position and whacked my ass! I never knew Metal could feel so good. Pictures are available to see on our Myspace and Facebook profiles.

Well Kats and Kitties, another great day has ended and its time to go. And, before I forget; Cleveland, Ohio, BE SURE to come see us peform at the Wheels of Steel Benefit concert on Sunday June 28th. Tickets are available at www.wosw09.com. Get discount tickets by using Promo Code "3SO".