Well, I went down to Deepest Darkest Devon, to record the drum tracks for a cuppla songs on the SIF album, which was being recorded in Martin Barre's (Jethro Tull guitarist) Presshouse Studio.
It went so well, they asked me back (when they couldn't get thin Lizzy's Brian Downey!), so I ended up on 3/4 of the album!!
Which means I ended up on tracks with Kip Winger (Winger!) & James Lomenzo (Megadeth/ Black Label Society/ White Lion!) on bass, amongst many others!
But...no, I didn't meet them...
All you need really is a decent click track, along with the track itself, & then you go to work putting the drums on - it's kinda the opposite when you record with 'real live humans' - where you get the drums on first, then everything is put on top of that..
Mind you, the other day, I was recording the Doom Day 2nd record in Berlin, & we were recording a cover, but the band had gone home, so it was just me & the producer.
All I had for reference was the record by the band we were covering.
So I suggested that I record drums - playing along to the actual record(!),
but the drums kept speeding up/ slowing down, so was really hard.
So, in the end, I 'memorised' the song arrangement, then recorded the drums, to just a click track,
whilst singing/ imagining the song in my head!!!
It was rather bizarre to say the least, but we got there in the end!
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