I Don’t Believe in Legalism. So What Are the Rules?

Apologies for the delayed release, and if you noticed, the delayed description. Here's the truth: making this show was just a disaster. Ever have those days? We were delayed recording by a day, Ben and I were both late and I couldn't get a thought to come out in any discernable combination of words to save my life. I dreaded editing this so bad that I was actually glad I still had work to do first.

But 70 minutes or so of audio was neatly arranged, with all the cool stuff bunched together, separated with nice long meaningless ADD breaks that were easy to spot and eliminate. But there was still one last step, and I wasn't sure how this was going to go. But I had to try.

I'm no better at guitar than Ben is at singing. But thanks to digital enhancements, I've only got to hit a few notes at a time, and then go back and find the one out of fifty that sounds decent, and piece them together. Truth be told, I could play the solo to Free Bird if you give me the weekend and a computer. But matching up rhythms isn't easy, I imagine in any case, and definitely not in this band.

When I finally got it all together, I noticed that my guitar part was still a touch off. I'm not quite good enough to keep up with that last little part, and I really didn't want to re-record it. I decided to just go ahead and overlay Ben's vocals and try to see how close I could get.

Turns out Ben had struggled to find the words at about the same rate that I struggled to keep up, so we stayed in sync, almost so well if I must say so myself, that it sounds like it was on purpose. I assure you it was not.

It's cool what God can do with our imperfections.