Bizarre studio experience today. Artist travels here long-distance ready to record (with a tag-along friend who had no role in the recording). Recording begins. Friend chills outside smoking cigarettes and who knows what else (in my garden, no less, leaving trash out there). Friend asks to borrow artists car to run off for a while. Friend doesnt return. Artist calls him asking, then demanding friend return his car between tracking each song with escalating anger. Friend stops answering calls from artist, making artist feel like car is stolen. Artist calls friends family trying to locate car. Im an unwilling audience to these phone calls, trying to edit and mix audio as normal. Artist is stranded at my studio more than 100 miles from home without his car. Friend eventually abandons car with keys in it late in the day and artist locates it. I offer to drive artist a good distance to abandoned vehicle, saving him who knows what cost in cab fare. Awkwardness and inconvenience all around. Take these as lessons: 1. DONT bring your idiot friends / dawgs / entourage to a recording studio if they have no reason to be here. They not only get in the way, they can derail the whole session. 2. Dont create a situation where you leave yourself stranded, either being dropped off or loaning your vehicle. 3. Musicians, you might be used to smoking who-knows-what in whatever trap studios you frequent where anything goes, but if you see my studio is showroom-clean, smells fresh, and has no ashtrays in view, take a cue that your vile, selfish, moronic addictions arent welcome on the premises.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 01:44:57 +0000
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