Empty Bars, Live Guitars

Ye gods, I’m simply thrilled. I could not have made this record without a ton of goodwill and enthusiasm from real musicians. So until iTunes and the like provide track info, here’s some much deserved credit where it’s due…

mostly recorded and mixed by dan bryk at flabby road 3: rise of the machines, north raleigh NC.

discount store was mixed by greg wells at rocket carousel studio, los angeles.

mastered by jeff carroll at bluefield mastering, raleigh NC.

chris staig, chris warren, kathryn rose and kurt swinghammer were recorded at the original flabby road in mississauga, where bryk did some of the playing and much of the programming.

more early tracks were done at flabby road 2: the klumps, a dreadful rental apartment in durham.

street team was mixed at flabby road 4: this time it’s personal on the upper west side.

nearly all of the drums were recorded by josh hicks at the purple tea room, toronto.

street team was mostly recorded by daniel goodwin and sean price at the clubhouse, rhinebeck NY.

thom soriano’s bass on horizons and that mistake again was recorded by david nagler at upstairs hollywood medical college, brooklyn. nagler also recorded the overdubs on street team there.

all those tracks were back and forthed via cd-r and ftp, so hooray for speech therapy.

grand piano, horns, some t-dot backing vocals and a couple of lead vocals were recorded by james paul at the rogue studio and magic bean roastery, toronto. mmmmmmmm.

maury lafoy’s bass playing and shoshana sperling and graham powell’s vocals were captured by maury lafoy at supers HQ, parkdale.

a couple of lead vocals were recorded by ryan pickett at pick’s gym, durham.

most of james brantley’s guitar parts were recorded at fire hazzard studio, durham.

tim carless’ guitars were recorded at the mockin’ bird recording company in chapel hill.

pete galub and greta gertler were recorded by bryk with the flabby road “red suitcase” remote at greta’s old apartment in park slope, brooklyn. thank god we finally have a laptop for that.

anything not otherwise credited was played and/or recorded by bryk at any of the flabby roads, except for looped drums from drums on demand and simon phillips’ drum foundations.