This week, for you mega-fans who spend all of your waking hours thinking and dreaming about us—that is, for those three guys who share a basement apartment in Whitby, Ontario—I thought I’d share some studio footage of the Roll and Go recording sessions. Just a little peek into what it looked and sounded like during the recordings, during the eleven straight 15-hour days it took us to crank this album out…
Here’s the SSB smashing out the drums on “Scrumpy O” and hamming it up…
Here’s Seamus O’Flanahan doing an absolutely crucial bit on “The Storm”, one of my favourite moments on the album:
Here’s the endless fun we had singing the gang vocals for “Problem”:
And here’s me pouring my heart and soul into the accordion on “The Rodney Rocket”:
And for you paid subscribers, here are two videos, showing literally the first, and ONLY time we practiced “Brisbane Harbour” before recording it. The second video is our actual recording. As you can hear, it’s a wonder that we even managed to get this tune on the album at all…
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