We have three great shows coming up this week: VA Beach on Thursday, Baltimore on Friday and Chicago on Saturday. Hope you can make it out!
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Jul 14, 10:12 AMThis Week: VA Beach / Baltimore / ChicagoWe have three great shows coming up this week: VA Beach on Thursday, Baltimore on Friday and Chicago on Saturday. Hope you can make it out!
Jul. 17, 2008 (Thursday)
Neptune's Park @ 31st Street
31st Street & Atlantic Avenue
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451
www.neptunes-park.com
Opener: Butter 7:00 pm
CL Set Time: 8:30p.m.
Free Admission
All Ages
Jul. 18, 2008 (Friday)
Power Plant Live
34 Market Place
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
www.powerplantlive.com
Doors: 7:00 pm
Opening Act: 8:00 pm
CL Set Time: 9:30p.m.
Free Admission
21 & Over
July, 19, 2008 (Saturday)
Sheffield Garden Walk
Webster & Sheffield
Chicago, Illinois 60657
Doors: Noon
Carbon Leaf Set Time: 6:00 pm
Freddy Jones Band 7:45 pm
http://sheffieldfestivals.org
Cost : $6 & $10
Tix available day of show only....$6 before 4PM and $10 after 4PM.
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Jul 08, 01:18 PMFriday in Dewey Beach
We are happy to be breaking out of the studio this Friday, July 11 for a performance at the Bottle & Cork in Dewey Beach, Delaware. Shows there are always a blast and the crowds are always a bit crazy. There is something in the salt air, loud music and cheap beer that brings out the best in people.
Doors are at 8:00 pm, The Jay Hoad Band opens the show 9:45 and then we hit the stage around 10:45.
Hope to see you there!
-Terry / Carbon Leaf
Jul. 11, 2008 (Fri)
Bottle & Cork
1807 Highway 1
Dewey Beach, Delaware 19971
(302) 227-7272
www.deweybeachlife.com
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Jul 03, 10:23 AMTerry’s Studio / Raleigh Blog July 3, 2008Here we are in the sitting upstairs at Sound Of Music working on some more guitar overdubs. Carter just finished putting down electric guitar and then doubling it with electric 12 String on a song called "Pink". Right now he is changing out the 9 Volt battery in his Fulltone '69 pedal and getting ready to put on the big lead part for the end. I'll be doing acoustic guitars after that, but in the meantime, I'm hanging out catching up on my blogs. Yesterday I used my downtime to create 14 new MySpace pages, so that all of our albums and songs would be up. It's one of those things that I have been meaning to do for a long time, so I finally got of my butt and did it.
Last Saturday we had a show down in Raleigh for their Downtown Live concert series. In order to get a sound check, we needed to be there at 10:15 am. We finished our sound check at 12:15 and, since our actual set wasn't until 9:45, we had several hours to kill. Carter was putting some stuff up for sale at a great store called Indoor Storm, so Jason, Jordan and I tagged along with him. That place is incredible! They have some really amazing guitars, amps and drums…. I can definitely see myself with the big red Carr half-stack at some point!
After that we headed back downtown and (on the recommendation from Dave at Indoor Storm) ended up grabbing lunch at Cooper's Barbecue. Holy C*&%!! Definitely some of the best BBQ I've ever had – plus, their hushpuppies were incredible. Apparently, Cooper's is a bit of an institution in Raleigh and I can certainly see why.
We then retreated to our air conditioningless dressing room to let the lunch settle for a bit. I think that the hushpuppies expanded in our stomachs and pretty soon the four of us were just about passed out into food comas. Sweating. Not a pretty picture.
A little later I was taking a walk and ran into Brad Smith from Blind Melon. When we were getting ready to record Love Loss Hope Repeat, we talked on the phone to Brad and Christopher Thorn about producing the project, but the timing didn't work out then. It was really nice to meet those guys in person. Very gracious guys. It was a ton of fun to stand on the side of the stage and watch their set. Totally amazing. I'm not sure where they found their new singer, Travis Warren, but he sounds almost identical to Shannon Hoon… it was almost a little eerie.
Our set was a lot of fun, but I could tell that I was a bit rusty on some of the set. My mind has been so focused on the stuff that we are recording that I forgot some dumb little stuff. It was really nice to get out and blow off some steam though! We also shot a little video of a dedication to a Marine over in Iraq – hopefully we'll have something up on YouTube next week. Other than Buford nearly setting the lighting rig on fire (not his fault – the guy that was in charge of the lights didn't know what he was doing and was incredibly unhelpful, "I love this job because I don't have to do anything", "What are they going to do, fire me?"), it was a great time had by all.
Well, I think that Carter is about finished laying down the shred… time for me to get to work!
Happy 4th of July! Try not to burn anything down, reapply your sunscreen, drink lots of fluids and try to avoid salmonella tainted tomatoes.
Take Care,
Terry
PS – Today's studio pictures… John Morand recording, Carter's Foot, Carter playing on the couch:
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Jun 26, 11:49 AMTerry’s Studio Blog June 26, 2008Today we are multi-tasking. Carter and I are in the downstairs studio working on guitars for "Indecision". I played acoustic first and own Carter is putting on his lead parts. He just finished his main track, playing his old brown Tele through his Two Rock and his old Deluxe. Barry is up on the third flood working on his lead vocal track for another tune – I'm not sure which one. The air conditioning has been fixed, so now it's kind of chilly in here… I'll take chilly to sweaty any day. John just picked up some Papadopoulos strawberry cream cookies at Nick's that are delicious. I'm not sure what they are really called – there is a bunch of weird Greek letters on the package that I'm pretty sure translates into "yummy". Carter is now using his Jazzmaster through a couple of cool echo boxes (Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay, Diamond, T-Rex Replica) to play this weird ethereal slide part on the bridge. I keep telling him that he needs to make it more "effervescent" and he keeps looking like he wants to punch me. Barry just came down to see what we are working on and just found his cell phone wedged way down into the frame of the couch. This is good news because he lost it about a week ago and had to get is old, old phone reactivated. Anyhow… that's what we are up today.
Rock on,
Terry
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Jun 20, 03:10 PMCarter, What Are You Playing?Today Carter and I have been doing guitar overdubs on a song called "What Have You Learned". Actually, Carter has been doing all of the heavy lifting, so I decided to grab my camera and capture some of the action. Check it out in the videos section...
Rock,
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Jun 19, 10:42 AMCarter and the KayakSo, it’s my day to blog again... but I'm really busy recording guitar tracks... I'll tell a quick story and then get back to work.....
It's funny, the moments that I find suitable for reflecting on my actions. I found myself upside down in a cold river, in the middle of the winter.... and in the mood to look back and figure out how I came to be in this position. I am not using this as a potential "Jacques Cousteau" moment, to catalog underwater life... nor am I showing off the art projects that used to adorn the bottom of my boat (messages such as: "if you can read this, tell my Mom I love her", "S#!T!", or "does anyone have the number for 911")... I am trying to figure out how I came to be wet, cold, and upside down, the latter adding to the fact that this had better not take too long....
I have been Kayaking for a long time, but like many things, my intense interest in the sport seems to come and go (according to doctors these days I have an affliction and there is medication available, as well as a truck load of acronyms)... So, a friend of mine has recently been bitten by the "bug" and must go boating at any and every chance. Being the seasoned veteran that I am, I am a bit reluctant to get back in the boat. But then he uses that age-old negotiating tool that every man has used against the other since the dawn of the ego.... "sissy." It's on....
This was a bit over 2 years ago and we have been boating many times since. It is well into this new chapter that I realize that I have not flipped over in many years... I'm just that good (meaning I will do anything to keep from tipping over, including paddling so fast that not only do my arms look like Shaggy's legs (Scooby Doo, bare with me) when he sees a ghost... but the world starts to spin in reverse). I begin to realize that it is only a matter of time before my luck runs out. Occasionally, I will be floating down any given river... look over at the water, ponder a practice roll (rolling the boat over, not related to a muffin), and then remind myself that I'm not on this river to get wet! I settle for starting every run by confiding in my buddy Brian that "today could be the day!"
At this point I would like to introduce my father, known from this point as "Dad". I started boating when he dragged me (no small effort) away from my skateboard and plopped me in a boat. One of my fondest memories of the "early years" involves Dad and our first kayak class. There we are... all in a row in a cold, muddy river and an overcast sky (a textbook family vacation). The instructor inquires as to whether anyone in the group can roll, to my surprise my father's hand goes up. Ohhh realllllly? The kind instructor asks for a demonstration and a demonstration he shall receive.... Dad rolls over effortlessly, beautiful!! The judges give him a 10! Surprisingly (to everyone but me), nothing happens... a few bubbles, well he did have that burrito for lunch... the boat begins to shake a bit, steadily increasing until it starts to look like a huge blue banana having a seizure..... It would seem that, not only can he not roll, but also he does not know how to exit the boat. I would have helped, but I was laughing so hard that the best I could do was keep my body from evacuating fluids from every point possible. He eventually pops out and we get him upright and back in the boat. He takes this in stride, along with all of the similar moments in our past that he wishes that I would forget.
Back to me... so, we were finishing another run down the James. I made down again... guess today wasn't the day... chatting with Brian and my Dad, goofing off, one hand on my paddle... I hit a rock… in a "rapid" of waves about the size of a soup can. Assess... hmm, I am now underwater, my paddle is in one hand off to one side of the boat, this water is cold (I was right not to practice this, it stinks), and my Dad and Brian are laughing at me... hell, I’m laughing at me. At this point, I decide that I am either going to die... or roll up, no way am I getting out of this boat! Though they learned it all from me, they are both now seasoned trash talking machines.... there will be no end, if I bail out! So, I get both arms on the same side of the boat... moving underwater is like..... moving underwater. I make a quick attempt, just to get some air... it's been a while... and with the second, I'm up. Whew... I guess some things you never forget....
Back to work…
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Jun 19, 10:17 AMBarry Blog - Tuesday 6-17-08Tracked 4 songs today. Pretty good progress. Just finished up. I took some photos around the place of some of the cast and crew......
VANGUARD VISITATION. Our label rep Steve Buckingham came in town to visit the studio and see how things were going. He's a good guy, and busy one, as he's teaching a course for U of R next, runs Sugar Hill Records in Nashville (Vanguard's sister label), and is a busy music producer as well (Dolly Parton). He stayed for a few hours and he didn't tell us to start over, so I hope we're doing alright....maybe Dolly will come in and sing...
SHANNON - 2ND ENGINEER. HER MOTHER COOKED US A HAM.
DEVILCAT
MIGUEL PRETENDING TO READ A BLANK JOURNAL
JONATHAN/JONOTHON/JONOTHAN...."DEAR BARRY, IF YOU DON'T PAY US THE DEPOSIT FOR JUNE I'M GOING TO BREAK OUR AC UNIT"
TERRY TRYING TO GIVE THE ROCK POSE BUT I MERELY CAUGHT HIM MID-ROCK, INSTEAD
JORDAN AMONG GEAR
CHIX WITH PIX
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Jun 16, 12:36 PMHeat & Feet
Weather.com says that it is only 90 degrees here in Richmond, but it sure feels a lot hotter than that. Of course, that might be because the air conditioning is broken here at the studio. At least I wore shorts today… Carter made the mistake of wearing corduroys. He looks like he is slowly roasting away over there – as he said, “cooking in my own juices”. Between takes Jason is fanning himself with a 10” rack tom head – he says that it is very effective. There is a guy frantically working on the HVAC system, so hopefully it will start cooling down in here soon.
After tracking a few songs last week, Bryan (our engineer) realized that I was tapping (stomping) my foot a little hard while we are playing the songs. What that translates into is the sound of Godzilla crushing buildings recorded on the room microphone tracks. Not a great thing, unless you happen to be Blue Oyster Cult. In order to combat this, Bryan got me a big piece of acoustic foam to stomp on. Acoustic foam is kind of like an egg-crate mattress pad, but way more expensive. There’s a picture at the bottom that shows what I’m talking about.
Other than the slight heat problem, things are going great. Jordan is overdubbing a bass track on the tune that we just finished, which brings us to 13 tunes so far with finished drums and bass. We probably have 4 or 5 more songs to record and then it will be time for Carter and I to do guitar overdubs.
In big celebrity sighting news, Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse) stopped by the studio today.
Hope everybody is doing well and that you are surviving the heat, floods, fires, tornados, and other adverse weather that seems to be plaguing our country right now. Something’s definitely messed up if we can smell the fire in NC here in Richmond!Rock on,
Terry
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Jun 14, 07:59 AMStudio - Day 5Hmmm...what's rattling around in my head? Well, actually as we start
day 5 of the studio the incredible comeback by the Celtics last night
is rattling around in my head! I can't believe I turned the game off
at halftime! 'Tis true, I am a poor excuse for Celtics fan... But in
my defense it had been a long day in the studio and there were still
two long studio days left before we take Sunday off. And as a longtime
Boston sports fan used to disappointment I just didn't know if I was up
for more heartbreak... I can't believe I turned off the game at
halftime! 'Tis true, I am a poor excuse for a Celtics fan...
Okay, back to the studio... I love being in the studio. Don't get me
wrong. I love to tour and play live shows but this is where we get to
lock ourselves up and create art. Granted, it's not always that
glamorous and it's not always art but it's what I enjoy most about
being a musician, seeing a song come from a simple riff to a well
thought out composition or watch a song start out as a spark of
brilliance only to spiral downward into the abyss of songs that just
didn't work and end up in a crate in some warehouse like in Indiana
Jones (what a disappointing movie...aliens? aliens? I mean
seriously...). Luckily no songs yet have taken that trip to the
abyss...
So far every thing's been running really smooth. We did a lot of work
before coming into the studio which has made a world of difference.
It's always nice to go into the studio and at least have an idea of
what you're gonna do. Pretty much this first week or so is to try and
get good drum and bass tracks. Jason's been nailing his drum parts and
we've been moving at a nice pace which keeps us from getting bogged
down and losing focus. It also keeps me from eating too many goldfish,
pretzels, organic animal crackers, mixed nuts and various cookies from
Costco that Terry and his wife generously donated for recording.
Although, I've always thought that large bass players were the best
(Chris Chew, Keith Horne, Duck Dunn, Bob Babbitt for example and I mean
no disrespect, these are truly some of the best bass players and happen
to be larger than my 5' 9" 165 lb frame). I could use the extra
calories and hydrogenatedness to help my playing.
Hmmm...what else...let's see, for the bass players out there here's what I've been using in the studio...
- Lakland Skyline 55-02 5 String Bass strung with D'addario XLs
- First Act Delgada Bass strung with D'addario Flatwounds
- First Act Acoustic Bass Guitar strung with LaBella Nylon Tapewounds
- GK 800RB Bass Head (there's a reason they haven't changed this amp in 26 years!)
- Eden 210XLT Cabinet (in my opinion, the best single cabinet out there,
actually this one is Carters, I sold mine a few years ago to buy an
engagement ring for my wife...definitely a good decision!)
- Peavey Classic 50 All Tube Head (for a little grit)
- Avalon U5 DI
- Planet Waves Medium Picks (I'm usually a finger player but I've been
experimenting with picks for a different sound and as a challenge to my
playing)
(don't worry, fans of the upright, it'll make it on this album, it just
happens that the songs we've worked on so far are all electric)
Well, it's time to get back to work and start on another song
tentatively titled "Seed", I think it's about Barry's attempt at Impact
Gardening in the small backyard of his downtown apartment...
Join me again next week when I'll be discussing the effects of a disco ball while recording a rock song...- Jordan
