“They headed out for lunch, and I ran to a nearby music store and bought a riser nut and put it on Neil Zaza’s acoustic.”
Brilliant. :^)
Did they keep the track due to time/budget constraints? Or did they just like what you were emoting with the voicings, feel, style? Or was it all of the above? I liked what you were expressing in the tune. Did the producer give you a lot of freedom on the track, or was he pretty specific?
They loved the track, and wouldn’t let me do it over. Time and budget weren’t concerns, as I did his whole CD.
I was a given total freedom of expression on all tracks. They seemed to like my playing. Tommy Sche’ was in Zaza’s first band, so we were all kinda friends. I’d already done several calls to the studio, Neon Cactus, and the engineer knew what I needed. Played a lot of pedal steel on the CD, and the engineer is good.
I had already recorded with Neil for a couple of his css. The pedal steel seems an odd choice for his melodic metal, but things worked quite nicely. We’re very close friends.
http://www.neilzaza.com