In The Studio

My first studio job in London is history.

The task was to record one song for PG in a very big and nice studio. The room was booked 'till 6pm by another customer, so the plan was to set up the drums (a beautiful '64 Ludwig champaign sparkle set) and start recording at 7pm. I arrived at the studio at 2pm, since AW wanted me to fool around with the mpc 5000. He's a big fan of this drum machine and he might need someone in the future to program some beats.
At 6pm, I started to set up the drums in the big room and at about 6.45 GG came over from studio 2 to do the soundcheck. The poor guy was in the middle of a mix, clearly overworked, but still did a fantastic job!
Well, we were ready to roll... everyone, with the exception of the computer... first Pro Tools didn't like the session, so we had to bounce it all to a new one. After that was done, it kept searching for a bt-mouse and crashing in the process... after a while, we found out, that the mouse/keyboard was broken (what are the odds), and after replacing it, everything was fine and ready to go. So at 9pm we started to record...
The song we recorded was somewhat of a power ballad, with a double time part at the end. AW wanted me to play with a Ringo-ish feel. Thank god I did my homework on that, and after three takes, it was done. AW laid down the bass (two takes) just five minutes before beer o'clock ;-)
I can't wait to hear the track once it's mixed and mastered.