HEY, CALIFORNIA
me – lead vocal
LITTLE PLUM
Michael Lorant – clarinet
Another day where it just doesn’t feel like I accomplished much. The vocal for CALIFORNIA was one take, with the exception of the falsetto at the end. For some reason, everytime I would start in I immediately got a tickle in my throat and would start coughing. Michael showed up around that time so we stopped while he did the clarinet for LITTLE PLUM. He hadn’t heard the song yet so it took a few passes to work it out, but it sounds great, sort of a raspy undertone to it, really nice. Then we stopped for lunch, came back and I did the falsetto bits from before. Not much, really.
Nevertheless, Rob doesn’t seem to think we’ll have trouble finishing up with three more days to go. It’s harder for me to judge.
This morning I remembered that I forgot how hard it is to find baritone ukulele strings. I may have to break down and go to MARS. The last time I was there for strings I stood around for about ten minutes waiting for someone to come to the counter, and finally I gave up and went behind it and got them myself. Went to the front register to pay, and then out the door, where they had TWO people checking receipts. Nice.