No Mark in the morning so Sam had another go at The Top. Got some really good fresh takes down with loads more energy. As well as sounding like Supertramp and the Who, we've decided that it's also a bit like Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. I did warn you.
Then Sam and I played through Homes For Heroes, the album's newest song - so new that I only have lyrics for two verses and no choruses. It's a song about de-institutionalisation(ism). Soldiers returning from the war. Ex-cons leaving prison. How they reject society and it rejects them. And how everyone ends up next to each other superglued to adjacent barstools. In the case of this song, barstools in the Vulcan: my favourite Cardiff pub.
The first verse goes like this (at the moment):
There's a dog with a muzzle that can't bear to be touched
By the last door standing, on an avenue of dust
A string of medals hanging from a rusty nail
A three-word message that yells out from the slate:
"Homes For Heroes"
I have high hopes for it.
Then we did 'The One That Stayed Behind', a song about marital paralysis. We aborted because Sam brought the wrong shoes. Honestly. More on this tomorrow.
While Sam disappeared off in search of more appropriate footwear, we started recording some bass. Mark has borrowed a 70s Precision which sounds great. It got its first outing on 'Red' and Mark did some top work. The part sounds mean. Really looking forward to putting my stuff down too now.
In other news, we had lunch at the Railway Arms on Crouch End Hill. I had a steak sandwich, Sam had a burger and Thomas had the full vegetarian breakfast, which was something of a work of art. Unusual but very welcome addition of mashed potato. Touch.
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