Fire Printing (2024)
0 1. Paper Pilots Pushing
02. Scram The Reactor
03. Hey Bobby!
04. Ghosts
05. Unreal
Adjust The Vertical Hold
06. Sunset Heart
07. Stranger In The Light Of Day
08. How To Leave Connecticut
09. Mirror Pieces
10. Stay Strong
If You Can Find The Way
11. Stinging
12. Spent All Her Time
13. An Echo Of Apology
14. Head Hits The Table Hard
15. The Drumshanbo
Fire Printing was mostly recorded in the Fall of 2022 and through 2023. Two songs are considerably older. She Spent All Her Time was written around 2005. An early version was meant to be a part of a long piece that included The Overture (aka After The Main Sequence) The suite idea was abandoned and the song was never completed. It appears a new version was recorded with Ric Parnell in June 2019. This new version was shelved and forgotten about until work on album 16 began. Joe Adragna was asked to sing on this one for the album. At that point Ron Sanchez inventoried all the unused tracks in the library. What was found were several songs recorded for Sandbox Shadows and abandoned.
Scott’s song How To Leave Connecticut was finished, it just didn’t find a place on an album until now. The song which became Mirror Pieces had gone through three previous revisions, none of which were satisfactory. This one was handed off to Tony Miller to see if he had something to add to it. He wrote new words and melody. The backing track was reworked to better fit the new idea. Joe Adragna added guitars to finish off the song. Scram The Reactor was written just after Sandbox was completed. This one and Head Hits The Table Hard were on the short list for Faith In Failure, but didn’t make the ten song cut.
Paper Pilots Pushing dates back to the early Sandbox sessions. It was completed and set to be the opening track on Faith In Failure. When the final mixes were reviewed it was decided that this one wasn’t ready for release. It got a fairly major rebuild with Deniz Tek adding guitars.
When Ric Parnell joined us in 2010, we realized his talents and tried to make the most of his time with us. There was also the matter of having plenty of songs for a sessions. A few of the songs were never completed. The ideas never fully blossomed. Rather than discard these drum tracks, new songs were written over the existing drums. Often radically rearranged. The parts were solid and could be used as building blocks for new arrangements. Stinging and Ghosts are two of these salvaged songs. Three others were attempted, but weren’t far enough along to be considered for the album.
These are the notes I made while mixing the album. This is the order it was mixed in.
1.
Stinging
Words – Music: Sanchez
Recorded: 4.30.19
March 4. 2020 drums
Edited March 2023
Additional Recoding March, October 2023
Mixed October 23. 2023
Ric – dums
Ron- vcl, gtr, bass, keys: pro, org, synths
2.
Paper Pilots Pushing
Words – Music: Sanchez
Recorded: 5.22.20
Recorded: 10.10.20 drums
Mixed Oct 24, 2023
Ric – drums, perf
Deniz – Ac, slide, solo
Ron 12 string, atmosphere gtr, strings, synths, bass, vocals
3
Scram
Words Music Sutherland
Recorded 9.30.21
Drums 10.30.21
Joe 8.14+23.23
Mix 10,28.23
Ric – drums
Scott -guitars, bass, vocals
Joe – eBow, vocals
Ron – e-piano, oran, mellotron
4.
The Drumhambo
Words and Music Joe Adranga
Joe – Drums, bass, guitars
Ron – guitar
5.
Mirror Pieces
Music Ron’
Words Tony Miller
Mixed 11. 11 and 12 2023
Ric – drums
Ron – guitars, bass, piano, organ, synths
Tony – vocals
Joe – 12 string
6.
How To Leave Connecticut
Words and Music Scott Sutherland
Mixed 11.15.23
Ric – drums
Scott – vocals, bass, guitars
Ron – slide guitar, piano, organ, mellotron 7.
7.
Ghosts
Words and Music Ron Sanchez
Ric – drums
Joe A – bass, fox guitar
Ron – Piano, guitar, synths, organ, guitars
basic 3.25.12
drums recorded 7.7.12
Remake 6.30.13
Remake 2 2.24.22
Mixed 11.17-18.23
8.
Unreal
Music and Words Scott Sutherland
Joe A drums, bass, bgv
Scott Sutherland – guitars, vocals
9.
She Spent All Her Days
Words and Music Ron
6.22.19
Mixed by Joe A
Ric – drums
Joe A – vocals
Ron – guitar, piano, organ, bass, synths, mellotron
10.
Head Hits The Table Hard
Scott Sutherland
mixed 11.20.23
Ric – drums, percussion
Scott – vocals, guitar, bass
Ron – organ
11.
Sunset Heart
Joe Adragna
Mixed 11.25, 26.23
Joe – vocals, drums, bass, guitars
Ron – 12 string, organ, Mellotron
12.
Stay Strong
Scott Sutherland
Mixed 11.27.23
Scott – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, keyboard
Joe drums, bgv
Ron – mellotron, piano
13.
Hey Bobby!
Words – Ron Sanchez Music – Scott McCaiughey
mixed 12.28.23
Joe A – drums bass
Scott McCaughey – piano vocals
Ron Sanchez – slide guitars, organ
Kris Hughes – harmony
14.
Stranger In The Light Of Day
Ron Sanchez
mixed 12.31.23
remix 1.2.24
Joe A – drums
Ron – vocals, guitars, synth, organ
Joe Hughs – bass
Kris Hughes – harmony
15
Echo Of Apology
(Sanchez)
Mixed Feb 6 2024
Ron – vocals, synths, guitar