What a beautiful weekend! The right time to spend it entirely in a cold ball room. The lovely firemen of Lichovy lend us their ball room for drums recording. Sitting by the desk, having my heart being synchronized with the kick drum I was wondering what these sound engineers like about it. Maybe the results if they’re lucky. Adrian, being our host, was taking care of delivering catering (made by loving Bianca – thank you!), Martin, partly the sound assistant, partly the second pair of ears and partly the always-on-line marketing research director of our band (watch the video for details) was sitting by the other table with his notebook complaining about “too much work”. Luk, sitting on stage, was changing cymbals and drums sticks looking for the best “heavy metal” sound or just warming up by playing the drums as hard as possible. In these rare moments when I was allowed to go out for couple of minutes I was absorbed by the beautiful and peaceful village and the countryside dreaming about my own weekend house by the pond, listening to frogs and birds instead of f*****g Ludwig Custom 1968 drum kit regularly punched, bumped, kicked, knocked and hit by Luk Santiago. But that was our destiny this weekend. Saturday, accompanied by Hanči and Pavla, two lets-not-talk-about-the-age girls entertaining us by their loud laughter, flaunting funny Adrian’s accent and being around us all the time giving us a feeling that we are somehow special but definitely so much special as them, we recorded drums for Leave It Like It Is. We had a great evening in firemen’s club-pub and after watching all available videos of The Cream with Luk, we went to sleep. Today we recorded drums for Hometown Zombie, being visited several times by firemen coming back from a firemen contest. Happy and tired. We had a good time. And we saw The Simpsons clouds on the way back.
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