I spent all weekend in the studio last weekend with my band LowFat. We recorded at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco, which was quite the experience, as they have some great recording gear and have had quite a few big names record albums there. Green Day, Cake, Spearhead, Chris Isaak, Robert Cray, Joe Satriani, the Grateful Dead, and many others. You’ve probably heard songs on the radio that were recorded in the same room that we were in. Whether or not we produced music of the same quality remains to be seen. Overall I was pretty happy with the sound quality (and the way the horns came through on the recording), but we could have been better prepared, and had to put 15 songs down in only 2 1/2 days. Some tracks are still unfinished, only scratch vocals were laid down, and there is a lot of editing, mixing and mastering work that will need to be done. Our singer’s wife is expecting a baby next week, and we’re all going to take a break from rehearsing and gigging for a few months. I expect we’ll start playing again and finish this album in early 2007.