Friday April 4: Waking up after a good nights sleep at 7am gives us 2 hours to shower & check out the beautiful Santa Ynez mountain surroundings, talk music & fiddle on the studio instruments downstairs. A 3 string cigar box guitar, a ukulele, classical & acoustic guitars and even an old acoustic piano that Charlie Chaplin once played (but that's another story) Breakfast at 9am in the Tyng family house, right up the hill, after taking some photos of the studio & farmland. We chat about music among other things with Chris Tyng & studio engineer Ryan Andersen at a giant kitchen table with a nice mountain view. A friend of Ryan's named PJ will play bass on the track and is on his way from Los Angeles. After breakfast we head down to the studio and start setting up instruments in one room so we can play the song Good Times live first & work on an arrangement. PJ arrives and fits right in to the scene with a great attitude & talent. Chris Tyng plays keyboards, sings & creates a cool new bridge for our song. Ryan records the work from the control room and we make many takes with vocals before lunch about 4 hours later (excellent homemade deli sandwiches) After lunch two film crew guys named Josh & Drew arrive and unload their equipment and set up lights (pros with much TV & movie experience and a great sense of humor) We continue playing the song and tweeking it. The film crew starts to film for the Grow Music Project web show as we rock out. Zico Coconut water is the drink of choice while working although the studio fridge is stocked with about 10 different beverages. PJ has to leave by 6pm for a gig in LA (a 2 hour drive!) and will be back tomorrow. Sometime after 7PM we stop for dinner and go to a local Mexican restaurant as a party of eight. The food & conversation are both great fun combined with margaritas. Back to the studio for more drum sound tweaking until about 11PM.