Last Time in the Studio
August 3rd 2005They say it’s going to be 94 degrees today so if you’re out and about in Portland you might hear people asking with a wry pleasure common for this time of year, “hot enough for you?” Summer is in full bloom and Saturday marks the beginning of the recording sessions in earnest. Almost all of the songs are finished. There remain only a few stragglers, like overdue term papers being furiously finished and whisked across our imaginary campus clutched in the hand of our fourth year student with beads of sweat on his beaten brow and a hidden hope in his hardened heart that this will more than make for a passing grade. Starting Saturday at about noon and continuing for six days in a straight row, we will willingly and with more than a little anticipation sequester ourselves to the confines of a few rooms looking to capture the sounds that come out of our collective hands and feet and heads and mouth. We will eat together. Read magazines between takes. Talk about current events both disturbing and sublime. There might be dogs there licking at each other and looking longingly from behind brown eyes. Each of us will take unannounced turns checking phone messages and remembering the world as it turns outside. There might be a fight. There might not. Jokes will be cracked like so many dusty peanut shells and tossed on the floor after the salty sweet has been taken in and left us wanting for more. It will be fun and amusing and then, like a rose parade come through town -bum bup bum bum - this part of our story will have come, all clumsy kids in clumsy clothes, to a clear but temporary end. And we’ll say thanks for the memories to the steely walls of the birthing room of our buxom babe and we’ll move to yet another room in another part of our precocious little town to mold and refine even more what we will have so earnestly begun and we’ll agree (dare I say?) no matter what we have to show and tell to you when we’re through, that there are worse ways to spend your summer days…
Mom's Note: Scott and Jesse put together a CD of Amelia Lost Tapes on 8/14/13.You can get a digital download athttp://www.cdbaby.com/artist/ameliahttp://ameliaband.bandcamp.com/album/lost-tapesor the CD from Deb (503.704.3427 debhelgerson@yahoo.com)Keep the music and her memory alive.