The Marquis Sessions

Session at Night Bird Studios at the Sunset Marquis

After spending 2 days at Dave Ways fab homestudio in the Hills I figured it would be a good thing to continue the recordings at the Nightbird Studio down in the hotel. We had some great days of music, friends dropping by and creativity. I am a total fan of both the hotel and the studio, and the whole setup is brilliant. Not only on the technical side where the studio holds basically all you want ( and more) but the vibe is there. The vibe to me is the most important thing. I gathered the guys.....

Pete McNeal, Dave Wilder, Jeremy Ruzumna, Me, Lyle Workman

If I could I´d play with these guys forever.  We recorded a whole bunch of songs, and some of them will be on the upcoming album. Friends dropping by in the process, Billy Steinberg came down as we recorded out song " I know how you feel" that we wrote a week earlier ( with Josh Alexander), Bruce Lampkov joined the band doing handclaps on the live on the spot written song " Still Wondering"
We had 30 minutes left before time was up, so we just said, what the heck. let´s jam a song together....turned out great ( also coming up.......) and Jeff Barry, the wonderful I can not say enough good things about this man, who shaped up the song "enough" with his brilliant lyrics. (also coming up....)

Jeremy Ruzumna, Me, Jeff Barry

I got a wonderful bracelet as a gift from Jeff. I have worned it out and it breaks my heart. Still keep the beeds..... Sometimes it is nice to hold on to the passed. Even though it has already passed.):)  Maybe that´s one of the reasons why I do this " blog from yesterday" right now....It was such a great period o fmy life and we had such a blast, and musically it was an adventure.  The Hotel is like the good old Hotel California that The Eagles sing about.  You can check in but you can never leave... Living, eating, breathing, singing, recording in the same space. I rarely got out of there. Occasionally visited the best Japanese little whole in the wall place round the corner, but that´s it.

Me n Lyle Workman at the Marquis

Jeremy Rusumna, the man the myth the DUDE!!

One night I was heading out for dinner, when I found this guy sitting in the stairs outside the hotel. He looked at me,  bit gloomy and asked me for a lift to the Roxy.  I had no clue who he was, but yeah, sure...jump in...On the short trip from the Marquis to The Roxy he was singing for me the whole time. "- What do you think of this melody ??" he asked and changed to something new. I was amused, he was probably stoned.  As I stopped the car, he looked at me for the first time....said thank you very much for the ride, now time for work! " and then he left. I say the signs outside the club saying " Tonight The Lemonheads" I had just driven the singer to his gig.
We continued recording, Oh, gotta mention the master technician himself by the mixing board Barry Rudolph. He was a lovely fella. You know. I have been lucky ...of all the peeps I have bumped into, very very few have been assholes.

Jason from Nightbird, Me and Jed Leiber