Inside the Studio - Great White, St-Anicet, Québec
We arrived at Great White in St-Anicet on a Sunday afternoon with the wind and the rain lashing against us as we loaded our musical equipment out of the back of a jam-packed Volvo and into the house.
That evening we transformed the dining room into a fully operational recording studio (with an extra B-studio for acoustic/percussion instruments.) We moved all the furniture upstairs, set up the drum kit, took the numerous guitars out of their cases, set up the microphones, plugged all the cables in, changed guitar strings and drum skins, tested the sound system, ate pasta, .... but we did not play a note.
As the sun began to set the clouds cleared enough to reveal a beautiful sky of burning orange and purple, like a scene from a John Turner painting.
When we awoke the next morning the sun was bright and there were sparrows perched on bare trees singing expectant songs of spring.
The dining room/studio opened out onto a small wooden decking facing a long garden, which sloped down to a narrow country road. On the other side of the road, there was a barren field of ploughed earth.
By the time we finished our recording session 14 days later the view had altered. Life had returned and the grass was green on all sides. The music we had recorded on the Silver Machine was alive, ripening, now growing closer towards it’s fruition.
