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It was wonderful. Also, Sam expressed his insecurity about the fact that I may record embarrassing things he says in this journal. So… this is how that worked out. That was a fun conversation. I enjoyed getting to know David a little better. Not too much else happened that night after David kicked us out.

When we left, Robbie read the horoscopes to us. Always entertaining. For lunch, we chose Chipotle because there was one near our hotel. Okay, I need to talk about Chipotle for a second. Apparently, a Chipotle is coming to Nashville, and everyone is really excited about it. People are crazy about Chipotle.

Needless to say, I was anxious to see what all the fuss was about. My verdict? If Chipotle is better than other burrito places, it is only marginally so. Specifically, their tortillas were of better quality, but the chicken was spicier and there were fewer options.

All other ingredients were exactly the same. At Chipotle, I began texting my brother Bart to see if he could remember which movies were filmed in Chicago. It was snowing pretty hard when we visited the Sears Tower. As a result, the view from the top was less than impressive.

I took photos of everything but the view. I was tired when we got back the hotel. Nap time. But seriously, it was a huge rip off. Dinner was good, though, because we started getting to know Tyler Verdell a little better. He has sat next to me in choir all semester, and only now am I starting to talk to him.

My name is Shane Stever, and I am a jerk. The PJ Party, an annual Tour tradition, happened that night. We played all the usual games. I laughed really hard. The laughing continued when I returned to my hall to find a big group of choirites in one room taking turns reading a graphic romance novel aloud.

I got to bed around Day Three — March 2nd, We got to wake up late, hallelujah. I grabbed a bagel, and we bussed to Hinsdale Central High School. I guess we added Hinsdale to our itinerary kind of late because we sung in their band room for two different periods of music students. Just… in their band practice room… no auditorium, no risers. Regardless, both of our performances for the students went well. It was awkwardly between lunch and dinner when we got back to the hotel, and I was hungry.

A group of us walked down there for a second dose of deep-dish Chicago-style goodness. After that, we lingered at the hotel until Second City. I had signed up for Second City weeks before Tour. The show was fantastic. We even saw Andy Enkeboll there… random! But the drinks were perhaps the most expensive in Chicago. Andy Brookshire and I shared a thirty-dollar pitcher of Chicago Fire, a really fruity mixed drink.

So basically, we found the gayest drink on the menu… and then we split it. I ended my day by making a run to the grocery store with a few other guys. It was a simple day, but a good one. Day Four — March 3rd, On the mornings where we get to sleep in later, we just stay up until 2 AM to make up for it.

When the wake-up call comes, we still want to destroy the phone. This was also our last school performance for the tour. It has been a bit upsetting that we were given such small spaces and small audiences at the few schools we visited this year. On previous tours, I recall performing in auditoriums for entire student bodies. We were already checked out of the DoubleTree, so we left directly from the high school for St.

The drive to St. Louis took about 5 hours. Louis to see if he wanted to hang out. Much to my delight, KJ was available. It was delicious. I enjoyed a cream soda, a burger, and good company.

It was delightful. Definitely one of the highlights of this tour for me. He drove us back to our hotel, and we were mostly in bed by 3 AM. Day Five — March 4th, The highlight of the day was our performance at the St.

Louis Cathedral Basilica. That was nice. The Basilica is outrageously beautiful. The artwork alone inside this massive structure took 70 years to complete. It features the largest collection of mosaic artwork in the world. And concerning VUCC, the space is known for its seven-second acoustic reverberation time.

It was a pleasure to sing there, except for two things. For one, we were only able to do a small selection of our sacred music. But mostly, there was a guy buffing a wall in the lobby of the church with an electric sander, and he refused to pause while we performed. So as our chords rang out in the space, they were accompanied by the shrill whine of a power tool. That was upsetting. My day was brightened once more because KJ showed up at the concert with his mom and two sisters. What a swell guy.

I went back to the hotel and took a nap. I woke up around 6 PM, which left me an hour to find my final secret buddy gift before banquet.

In Nashville, I had bought gifts for every day of Tour except the final day. I planned to get a nice souvenir or something for my final gift.

So Craig and I set off around to search the surrounding area for a gift shop of some kind Craig needed a final gift as well. Unfortunately, nothing within walking distance was open. We were out of luck, so we had to get creative. We ended up giving our secret buddies a few snacks from the vending machines with an I-O-U for a guitar-violin serenade.

The final gift-giving is a part of the ceremonial revealing of secret buddies that happens during Tour Banquet. As it turns out, my secret buddy was Robbie Jones, our accompanist.

Her final gift to me was a cool choral CD featuring some pieces she knew that I liked. It was really great. The banquet food was good this year. It was Italian. The quotes and superlatives were especially entertaining.

In general, banquet went really well. In keeping with tradition, many photos were taken at the conclusion. That fun lasted several hours. I even got a massage out of it. That was cool. By the time I got to bed, I was extremely tired. Day Six — March 5th, I woke up early enough to enjoy the continental breakfast this time. We sang at the Christ Church Cathedral for a small audience of mostly senior citizens.

Unlike the Basilica, we were able to do our complete program in this Cathedral, including our secular pieces. I thought it was funny. The Cathedral was a nice acoustic space. Afterwards, I changed clothes and re-boarded the bus for Nashville. We dropped some people off at the airport as always, but I prefer the cheaper method of getting home. VUCC Tour went off without a hitch. Huge props to him and the officers, especially Isaac, for a job well done!

Hey everyone. Sorry again for the late production update. I just got back in town tonight. Before I lose those of you with few spare moments yourselves, be sure to check out the new production photos I added to the album on the Photos page.

It took us two huge recording sessions to finish all the tracking for the Christmas EP. We recorded for about 12 hours that day. Then, we wanted to continue making progress with all the tracking, but my family took an impromptu trip to South GA, so I was unavailable for a day or so in between. Long story short, it came down to Sunday night, and I was leaving for another family trip to Pennsylvania at AM Monday morning.

It was indeed impossible. But we DID finish tracking everything, which was the important part. Finally, I hit the road for PA Monday morning with my family, and I brought my hard drive along for the ride.

I sculpted tracks for about 5 hours of the hour drive up North. In between socializing with family, I snuck upstairs and produced like a madman. About a day later, I had finished the mixes as much as I could, but time was out. Either way, it was an incredibly fun and educational experience for me. We tried so many things on this project that I had never done before.

For instance, I never had the capability to track real drums before I upgraded my rig. That was new. My favorite thing about this track is the fact that we included a face-melting melodica solo.

Also, I faced a mixing dilemma with the electric guitar for this song. Originally, we intended for this song and the others, for that matter to be entirely acoustic. Then we added the electric, and it sounded good, but I liked the acoustic feel for this song better, so I kept the electric guitar medium-low in the mix.

All The Right Reasons When I wrote this song, Joe and I thought it would have a really energetic, peppy, cartoonish feel to it, but it ended up being way more chill. I wanted to make a song about loving Christmas for all the wrong reasons, and I did, but being as sarcastic as I am, I produced it like a sincere song. But seriously, Christmas is about Jesus. Not presents. Not shopping.

Not even giving or family. Even though no one seems to have a problem with that statement, and giving is good and Christ-like, Christmas is NOT about giving. The end. My favorite thing about this track is the sweet overdriven Rhodes keyboard sound I found in Reason. It comes in on the second chorus, panned to the right to complement the electric guitar on the left. Listen for it! Bleh… not a good time for my voice. Given some extra time, I would have re-recorded all those vocals in the morning.

Speaking of vocals, there are three tracks total. I added a bass harmony under the third original verse. And the keyboard synth interlude? Yeah, another sweet rhodes sound from Reason, this time with delay. I programmed that MIDI part on the road. It worked out, haha. I was flabbergasted by the number of people who had never heard of it.

Somehow, my project file in Logic Express got messed up, and it kept randomly shifting our audio takes. It was a tedious process that sent me in circles, solving timing issues that created others.

It was a mess. So, if you detect some weird timing things in this song, please be kind. Technology was against us on this one. It was weird, but it worked. Sort of. Recording the vocals for this song was way too much fun. It was like musical theater. They hold the whole thing together. Auld Lang Syne This was all Joe. We recorded it in complete takes, with Joe playing guitar while he sang… no editing. I tried to isolate the guitar and vocal mics as much as possible, and the result was a noisy track due to the volume adjustments I made to compensate for the low gain.

Raw, natural, cool. Thanks for listening, everybody! Let me know what you think about the album. Blog at WordPress. Stuff Shane Does because I do so many interesting things. Holiday Greetings and Salutations December 20, Guess what? The Christmas E. Thanks for reading!

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