Shows at the lighthouse became an every other week thing. We would open up for other bands brought in by clap unlimited productions, and a few other local acts. There was a limited number of venues to play in the Lehigh Valley. Especially for a punk band and one of the only punk bands in the Lehigh Valley.also the all age West catty playground and firehall shows were a few years away .the lighthouse shows were more routine them fun until one day it changed hands. A guy named Jason took over running the place. He was a short chubby guy who look like Brian Johnson of AC/DC. He started a whole new thing changing the name of the lighthouse to the French connection. He brought in dancers, mud wrestling and half naked girls rolling around in Jell-O and pudding.this put a whole new twist and playing a show and brought in the different crowd. It was fun playing while all those girls were rolling around in the mud and Jell-O. We started playing shows that the French connection on a regular basis. But like all other venues it became more like a job and it lost it's flare and wasn't fun ant more. Also we found that we were wearing ourselves out playing too many shows in the Lehigh Valley. People didn't want to come out every other week to see you and we weren't playing enough new material to keep it fresh. So we decided it was time to take off from playing and record our first single.*
We looked around for recording studio and decided on Helfrich recording laboratories on E. Texas Rd. in Allentown. Pete Helfrich the engineer was an older man who seemed more in tune to record Opera and classical music, but he turned out to be really cool and knew what he was doing. We chose 2 songs to record don't say no and killed by kindness. We got busy in our practice space going over the songs again and again till they were perfect. We even divided ourselves into separate rooms as if we were recording so we didn't depend on eye contact, we knew the songs inside and out every note.I guess all that preparation worked out to because all the songs were done in under five takes, which saved us lots of money. The only part of recording that took a couple takes was the vocals.they are done separately, I was a little picky about those and when you finally get to hear yourself sing some adjustments needed to be made. Start
When we got to the recording studio we were shocked at first. The outside of the building was a rundown old church I think, with a few buildings added on to it and the carport at a garage. The inside didn't look much better there was instruments all over the place things stacked on top of one another. there were piano's a harpsichord and a cluster fuck of recording equipment. The only area that was cleaned out was the drum booth for Robbie's drums. A small area had to be cleaned out for Mike and myself. The recording process was a very interesting and we learned a lot from it. We also read up on several techniques used by other artists we like. Like East Bay Ray of the dead Kennedys he always used five mics all spaced down a hallway.also we used a double track for the vocals which was used by artists like the Beatles, kiss, Nirvana and a host of other musicians. Recording was only the first process of making the 45, which I will get into deeper in the next post so stay tuned.!
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We looked around for recording studio and decided on Helfrich recording laboratories on E. Texas Rd. in Allentown. Pete Helfrich the engineer was an older man who seemed more in tune to record Opera and classical music, but he turned out to be really cool and knew what he was doing. We chose 2 songs to record don't say no and killed by kindness. We got busy in our practice space going over the songs again and again till they were perfect. We even divided ourselves into separate rooms as if we were recording so we didn't depend on eye contact, we knew the songs inside and out every note.I guess all that preparation worked out to because all the songs were done in under five takes, which saved us lots of money. The only part of recording that took a couple takes was the vocals.they are done separately, I was a little picky about those and when you finally get to hear yourself sing some adjustments needed to be made. Start
When we got to the recording studio we were shocked at first. The outside of the building was a rundown old church I think, with a few buildings added on to it and the carport at a garage. The inside didn't look much better there was instruments all over the place things stacked on top of one another. there were piano's a harpsichord and a cluster fuck of recording equipment. The only area that was cleaned out was the drum booth for Robbie's drums. A small area had to be cleaned out for Mike and myself. The recording process was a very interesting and we learned a lot from it. We also read up on several techniques used by other artists we like. Like East Bay Ray of the dead Kennedys he always used five mics all spaced down a hallway.also we used a double track for the vocals which was used by artists like the Beatles, kiss, Nirvana and a host of other musicians. Recording was only the first process of making the 45, which I will get into deeper in the next post so stay tuned.!
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