Northey Valenzuela Sonic Soul Implosion.

November 05, 2002

Northey Valenzuela Sonic Soul Implosion. One of the dozen or so names we’ve thought of for our little writing team/groupo magnifico. Jesse is here in Vancouver and we had our first rehearsal yesterday for the re-recording of an album we shelved almost two years ago. I am so proud of the fact that we had the courage to turf it and start again. Aside from my work in film I’ve never had so much good music and hard work be thrown away in one fell swoop. Its a testament to our faith in the songs that we’ve waited to have the chance to immortalize these ditties in a more organic way. The previous recordings were a patchwork of tracks overdubbed in 3 different cities and on every recording format imaginable. By the time they were done they didn’t have a centre to them. There was never more than two of us in the room at any given time so a “band feel” was pretty hard to achieve. This time its going to be the opposite approach. Same guys as before but all in one room, in one city, on the same day. I wonder if it has been done before. If we can stop laughing long enough to play its going to work like mad. Its pretty obvious after yesterday that Pat Steward should have his own TV show hosted from behind a drum kit. He will need no guests and no props and only one camera angle -- you know that thing where you’re laughing so hard that the back of your scalp knots up and the fact that you are in pain makes you laugh harder? I think you do.