Well, dear readers, it was another long day doing And the World Goes Round stuff – I am so ready to be done with this CD, as is my engineer. I arrived to the engineer’s house at one-thirty and listened to all the material we’d recorded the day before, all inserted where it belonged and mixed. I made a few balance changes, but it all sounded very good. We then addressed some fixes that the musical director asked for – we actually only did the ones that made sense to us, but there were some good catches in terms of missing lyrics, wrong lyrics, or other things like that. Then the musical director came by with an extra large pepperoni pizza from Dino’s. We all dug into that like crazy people. My engineer had to admit it was great pizza. The fun thing about Dino’s pies are that the slices are very small, so eating two of those is really like eating one normal slice from anywhere else. So, we each had four pieces and that was very yummilicious.
Then we began the arduous task of putting all the pieces together. One thing I’d asked for at the sessions was that at no time one song was ending and another beginning – and that we were recording separately – that the underscore accompaniment to the incoming new song not be played under the final held note of the outgoing song – that just gets very confusing. But, despite my asking for that to happen it happened anyway and it was the source of much consternation, especially as the musical director kept getting confused by our confusion, which only made me get very testy. Once I realized what was going on, I just said that I needed no talking and to let us just deal with it. From that point, it was easier and we got it all done. Several numbers were recorded in pieces, and those all assembled nicely. Now the engineer will do what he does and I should have it all in show order and all put together by Tuesday night. I’ll then spend a few days living with the mix in order, see if I want to tweak anything further (I’m hoping not, but if we do it will be next week), and then I will send it off to Mr. Kander for his comments. I normally give folks forty-eight hours to send comments, otherwise it can just go on and on. Once I have them, presuming there are any, I will then see which we’ll address – it might be all of them, or it might be whatever we feel comfortable with. We know what the recording is, and so we know what we can fix and can’t fix and everyone just kind of has to understand that. But it’s great to finally have a complete recording of the score. The only thing we’ve omitted are the play-offs for songs – we did record them, but, to me, that’s for the theater and not a recording that one is listening to.
By the time we finished, it was almost seven-thirty and I was all in. I came right home, answered e-mails and had a few telephonic calls, and then ate some fruit whilst sitting on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I began watching a Blu and Ray of a new documentary entitled Jodorowski’s Dune, about the filmmaker’s failed attempt to make a movie of Dune in 1975. So far it’s quite interesting. I only watched about thirty minutes, then had some work to do, which I did.
Today, I will finish choosing songs and gather up music and send to our performers, I will hopefully pick up some packages, I’ll eat, I may try to jog, and I will finish some liner notes and start on new liner notes. I was kind of invited to see a cabaret show tonight, but I don’t know that I’ll be up to it.
The rest of the week is meetings and meals, Wednesday night I’m seeing Jason Graae’s cabaret show, Thursday I probably am having lunch with Kay Cole, and then I think I’m seeing a couple of other things.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, finish choosing songs, gather music and get it to singers, eat, maybe jog, hopefully pick up packages, write, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: Barbecue – what’s the best barbecue food you’ve ever had? What style barbecue is your favorite? What barbecue sauces in supermarkets do you recommend? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy that all the tedious assembling has been done.