$hit has hit the fan!

January 4th, 2006 by Beau

You may notice that I'm posting the blog for January 4th on January 5th, there is a reason for that and you will soon find out.
The day started like the past few days with Eric and Ben laying down lead guitars. Here is a video of Ben getting some advice from Anthony and then putting it to use:

Gimme that rock candy

Then Eric went to work, here is some footage of that:

Riffage

Also during the day, Vince and I worked on finishing up the lyrics for "Epic" and "Dougale". Here is a video demonstrating the process we were using to write the lyrics:

Lyrics workstation

Then, around 1 AM, the shit hit the fan. We heard a pop coming from the HDR and then the faint smell of smoke, "This can't be good". We tried rebooting the system to no avail. Upon opening the HDR and removing the hard drive we found the culprit. The chip that controls the hard drive motor was fried. The last time we had backed up was the previous night, we had lost the entire days worth of work. Here is a video of the situation:

The burnt drive fiasco

To make things worse it was now 2:30 AM and we still couln't get the replacement hard drive working. Needless to say we did not feel like blogging. We decided to call it a night and work on it in the morning. Hopefully recording could continue tomorrow and we could try our best to recreate the lost tracks as well as still make progress on the album. To be continued...