...are out on the town for the night, drinking like it’s the first time they’ve ever been in a bar, and flirting hard with the band. It’s fun for the band, because they’re having fun. But watch out.

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I wanted to achieve a dirty rock band kind of feel for the song. And then in the bridge a break down, a dramatic pause to set up the action to come. Originally the synth melody line here was the focus, but when I got Greg in the studio, I realized we could bifurcate, and I had him do, simultaneously, a drum solo. It’s a beautiful thing.

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Thank you to Renee for coming in to do this, perfectly.

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And thanks to the Leeg for coming through as usual, with outstanding performances.

Special thanks here to Randy Rood. Randy’s a recording engineer, neighbor and friend who agreed to come over and listen to what I was working on a give me his feedback. He took me through his approach. Had me zero out the mix and start completely flat, no reverb on anything until we got the sound just right. Showed me his approach to perfecting the vocal track. Worked on creating a unique space for each track so they didn’t compete sonically. When I told him the scene of the song, he worked with me to get it to sound more like a live band on the stage. And our collaboration on this continued beyond the initial two sessions, with me sending him versions of the song and him sending back comments. My favorite beginning to a comment (and so Randy) as he would request a fine tuning of something, “Ok, can we get a little greedy with this? Add 1db…”

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As with Jimi Fischer on other songs, the techniques Randy taught me found their way to use in other songs throughout the album and improved the whole product.