-Mike Merrifield laid down the drums on both tracks. Mike has done studio drum work with CAROLINE BLUE before-3 tracks on the “Slave to the Hourglass” CD and all the drum tracks on the “Not For The Innocent” CD. besides being a close friend, Mike is a great rummer and it usually doesn’t take him long to get his parts recorded-and this time was no exception.

-We got set up and then we ran thru “Prey” a few times. Although I’d given Mike a demo of the vocal / r.guitar and click, we never jammed the tune till this moment. In fact, while playing the scratch track I played the guitar and bass lines to make things a little easier. Mike had played on the original track of “Inside” so that wasn’t a problem-in fact, Mike added some more stuff to it. I think we did, what 2-3 takes for each one and they were done.

-Then came the bass which was done quickly as well. A few overdubs and that was it. Rhythm Guitar was next, but that was stalled a little so Scott could fix the intonation on my guitar. That didn’t take too long either. I used my Fender Metalhead amp on both songs for 1 track and Scott’s B-52 amp for both songs on track 2. Then we started on leads but after 1 pass on “Prey” we called it and set up till the next day. Not bad for 1 days work!

-The next day I finished up the lead work w/ Scott’s RG 540 Ibanez thru a Line 6 combo amp. Then came the vocals. Everything was done in about 3 hours. So everything recorded for 2 songs in 2 days-sounds good to me!

-If the songs are picked for the soundtrack, then I have to work w/ them on it. If not, I’ll probably release the songs-and maybe 1-2 more older ones I have, one a CD or something. We’ll see…Both songs are “darker” in nature than what I normally do-which is fine. I like to go off the path every now and then.