THICK OIL, day sixteen - Bitchy

"The final day of the OIL recording sees Bitchy close out the sessions. In
fact, Bitchy was supposed to record after Bob Nanna on Wednesday, so this
session is really an extension of the schedule."
Thus begins the sixteenth and last in a series of journal entries by THICK Records kingpin Billy Spunke [note: today's entry written by THICK president Zak Einstein] documenting his label's newest compilation, "OIL". To read the full entry, click on READ MORE, and to see pictures from the sessions click here.

What's that, you say? You missed one of the previous entries? Well, just click here to get a list of all of them, and you can read at will.

The final day of the OIL recording sees Bitchy close out the sessions. In
fact, Bitchy was supposed to record after Bob Nanna on Wednesday, so this
session is really an extension of the schedule.

I arrive around 5pm with one of our interns in tow. Just so happens the
owner of the factory is still there, so I put on my professional face and go
to say hello. I hadn’t met him before and was surprised to find a little old
man with a heavy European accent - not the hard, blue collar Chicago
industrialist I was expecting. I thank him profusely for letting us invade
his factory for the last 3 weeks, to which he replies, "please make sure
that the name of the company is not used [in any of the packaging or
marketing materials]". "I have competitors y’know." Yeah - I know.

Bitchy started as a side project for Chaz and Dave of the Blue Meanies with
Lance (who has toured with the Meanies for years running sound) on drums.
it’s fitting that Lance’s own band close things out. Chaz arrives a few
minutes after I settle in and we preview a few of the other songs that
Lance had downloaded to hard drive. I’m really impressed by the big studio
sound quality that we’ve got from this make shift space, and the songs
themselves are awesome. Both Chaz and Mark (the Intern) comment on how
impressive the OIL set-up is. I’m sad to see it end.

Lance goes in and gets the drum sounds he wants and before I know it, he’s
tracked several takes (without anyone else playing) and drums are done!?
Dave still hasn’t arrived at the factory so Chaz decides to record guitar
and ta-da, the basics are there. Dave pulls up just in time to learn his
parts and there you have it. A 90 second song in typical Bitchy fashion. I
take off before Chaz screams his vocal parts, but I have a good idea of how
it will end up. Bitchy, #19 of 19, and part one of "OIL - Chicago Punk
Refined" is in the can. We’ll take a break and start mixing OIL in a week or
two.