This particular guitar recording session had me traveling north to Santa Barbara.  Todd Nichols and Dean Dinning from Toad the Wet Sprocket were working on a demo tune and needed some electric guitar and lapsteel.  We always help each other out so I was eager to get out of LA and hang with the guys.

Since I’ve worked with Todd extensively I knew to bring my usual amp and guitar set up and we would lay down a few takes and usually he comps the track into one and “BAM!” its done.

I brought my usual G&L ASAT Tele, Supro lapsteel, Carr Rambler amp and two different pedal boards.

The small pedal board is mine – it was sporting a T-Rex “Yellow” Overdrive which is really great sounding.  The other pedal board was one that was in the studio but I ended up not using that one however I did use the Voodoo WAH pedal!

I always like to explore other guitar sounds and I tried a few different guitars that “lived” in the studio but the G&L won over (as usual!)

We mic’d up the amp and within an hour or so had the tracks done –

This session was really cool because I was improvising parts and it can be very exciting and fun since I can improv till the cows come home AND there was no reading necessary!

Onward to the next…….