Saturday April 5th: Up early with free time before breakfast with sunny but cool weather. Hard not to take photos of the beautiful surroundings. Yesterday's playing live for 5 or 6 hours to shape the tune was a good workout so I hope my voice holds up today for tracking some vocals. We start around 10 am and record all the takes live until 2pm with Ryan recording each one first to analog tape on a Studer reel to reel and then into the digital world. We meet a new person helping out today for the Grow Music Project sessions named Andre', a college intern who also films footage of the sessions. We now have takes to form a foundation for the overdubs. Today's lunch with the film guys and musicians is outside on the stone patio with the mountains as a nice backdrop. We have an excellent lunch made by the producer of the GMP Kristin Tyng, who also played a key part in choosing the song we are recording. The meal includes an oriental chicken salad and lemonade with homemade cookies for dessert. I could have a separate blog for how well the Tyngs fed and spoiled us. Movies and film-making are the subject for most of the meal so we are all fat & happy. After a fun but also daunting filmed interview session with Chris & I about Caution Cat, the GMP and our musical journey we meet a special guest who is coming in to do harmony vocals. Her name is Alix Macmillan-Fiedel from the band Ghost Tiger and she says she feels our pain about doing interviews since she has the same anxiety. Being interviewed about music is much harder than making it. Discussion on the backing vocal tracks is done and Alix works hard to help build the song. By 9PM we are done so a huge party of people head up to the Tyng's house for Pizza and a local brewed beer 805. We make a toast to all the artists and production people who have helped make this all such a good and productive time. After a late dinner we all saunter back down to the studio so the folks leaving can pack up film equipment & musical instruments. We say our goodbyes full of pizza and a few beers. Thanks to PJ for nailing the bass part and hipping us to life in Belgium, his home country. Also thanks to Josh & Drew who not only stuck cameras in our faces but made us laugh more than a few times. Thanks to Alix for her time & voice  (on a Saturday night no less) Tomorrow will be a long day of tracking so caution cat crashes hard.