“C’mon, let’s magnetize this motherfucker!”

It’s actually from last Sunday. I was engineering a session for Howard Iceberg with him, Tony and Rich from Pendergast (congrats on your recent Pitch award!), and Brendan (late of Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys). Rich turned out to be the guy who cracked the whip when everyone else spent too long joking and talking between takes.

I just like the sound of it, plus it works equally well for tape and hard drive recording. Incidentally, it was a fun session. We’d worked with all those guys individually before, but never as a group.

Update: Andrea of the Password-Protected Website [:-)] informs me that the line was actually from a Steve Earle album. So Rich was quoting, not making it up. We were talking about Steve Earle earlier, so it makes sense.