Will Chatham

Back in August I was in Louisville and got to record some tunes in an air­plane hangar with Jeremy. It was too much fun. Check out the free tunes to hear them. Jeremy pro­vides the gui­tar and bass, while I do the drums and other bang­ing of things. Lis­ten closely on one of the tracks for the jet plane tak­ing off, which clev­erly dis­guises an error in the song we made.

On another note, Jeter com­pletely rocked my world this week by send­ing me the pre­vi­ously men­tioned 7″ record­ing of Bas­tro doing My Dad Is Dead’s Noth­ing Spe­cial, a song which is very impor­tant to me because of its awe­some drum­ming. Not to men­tion the fact that it’s just an awe­some song, and I have been dying to hear it since 1992. I couldn’t believe it when it showed up in my mail, and my wife and kids looked at me funny when I shouted with glee and jumped onto the cof­fee table. Thank you, Mr. Jeter. I owe you one. Or 100.

Now, I must go buy a turntable. This 7″ has pushed me into decid­ing to delve in and get the Ion iTTUSB, which will allow me to start con­vert­ing my 400+ vinyl albums to dig­i­tal for­mat. This will take a while to do, but there is so much vinyl I have that never came out on CD that it will be worth it.

Lastly, I’ve decided to start a new band. I’m going to put an ad out soon seek­ing one gui­tarist and one bass player to form the power trio from hell. If it doesn’t leave my ears ring­ing and my knuck­les bloody, then I will have to try again. So, who wants to play?