and getting sounds after the technical issues were overcome. the night before i changed the heads on my toms because the drum sounds i was hearing in my head were classic 70's rock such as John Bonham and Ian Pace. i was listening to Deep Purple's Machine Head recently and love the drum sounds. so i decided to use typical white coated heads. the cats back in the day were "reformed" jazz players so their drums were tuned high and wide open.
as i started to set up, Paul immediately suggested i use his vistalite 22" double headed bass drum. of course it's the same color as Bonham's classic set so who was i to disagree. he also suggested to use his classic Ludwig Black Beauty; again another greatsongs out live for a while so we had a really good handle on tempos. right outta the gate the click felt slow. it's easy to tell because i found myself having to check myself and slow down. so now another common theme to the sessions was any tempo we "had" selected was bumped up two or three clicks.
for the next four hours we tracked many takes starting with "Roll Me Over", "I'll find a way", "Heart Attack" and "Far Away".
moving along at a pretty good pace the guys in the band talked me into attempting to track one of Paul's tunes called "Gun's and Roses". live this is typically our last song of the set because it is a higher energy song and i actually have a