About Pietro:
Mike does many things. He plays the drums, records and mixes bands, makes websites, designs and create custom hand silk-screened tee shirts, drinks beer, and can be seen driving an excessively large van named Blue. He would love to know your deepest, darkest, secrets ... feel free to email them to: mike at staticofthegods dot com. Oh, and he even goes by Pietro by those in the know.Pietro's Posts:
A couple of great shows coming up to support the Knowledge Machine Release; then we'll be heading out for a more extended tour on the West Coast this summer. Mar 22 2010 9:00P The Melody Inn Indianapolis, Indiana Mar 23 2010 9:00P The Green Lantern Lexington, Kentucky Mar 24 2010 7:00P The Camel Richmond, Virginia Mar 25 2010 7:00P Arlene’s Grocery New York, New York Mar 26 2010 9:00P The Fire Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mar 27 2010 9:00P TT ...
Metro Spirit has reviewed our upcoming record - check out the complete review or read an excerpt below: "Recorded in a paradox of a country setting with modern technology and wrought from their emotional turmoil, which is very evident on this record, the Boston-based three piece fills all eleven tracks on "Knowledge Machine" with a ton ...
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In light of last nights Celtics loss, Loki wanted to show his support and help to team with game 7. I think what Loki is trying to say is: "More Scal! More Scal!!!"
We spent the better part of Saturday on Amp patrol. We dropped off the AC30 at Boston Guitar Works to get it looked at and to get a new reverb tank installed. They're the place to go if you need a boutique amp and have some amazing gear. After spending a some time perusing and ...
I walked out to the van this morning to find this: It reminds me of a note that someone left on my van a few years - in that case, someone was complaining that the van was too big, took up too much space, and shouldn't be allowed on the street. My reaction on both occasions ...
So we finally got around to taking a look at the reverb tank in the AC30 (that's the thing that make's all the cool, dreamy sounds). Sure enough, the thing is all sorts of broke. There is supposed to be 3 springs stretched from one end of the tank to the other, but none (which is ...
Shhh, don't tell anyone, but today is someones birthday. To celebrate we eat at a fantastic new restaurant called "Hungry Mother" in Cambridge, Ma. And no, this photo is not supposed to imply that it was my birthday, this happens to be the only one that came out clear enough to post; sorry, you get to ...
Spent a good part of the day today dealing with all those things that often get pushed under the rug. Had to pay a visit to my local insurance agent to pay a few months of late gear insurance (oops). But have no fear, as of today, all our gear is covered and protected again. Now ...
We started officially recording guitar today. For the last couple of days, we've been trying to smack some sense into AC30, and it finally listened. Ben got his guitars done for "Talk you down", although we still have some double up some parts with the Big Muff. The AC30 is still periodically making some unsettling rattling ...
I know I'm just a drummer, but something just doesn't look right here.
Well, the vox doesn't seem to be any happier today than yesterday. It's still not sounding right, and to add insult to injuiry, the reverb just just decided to stop working. Loosing the reverb in and of itself isn't a game changer since we use a Holy Grail for most reverb duties, but it does ...
So yesterday was one of those days where everything seems to be a little off ... for some reason nothing felt right. It wasn't all for naught though, as we did manage wrap up bass on "Ghosts", which is coming along nicely. That is however when things took a turn for the worst. We had the ...
As phase 2 of recording progresses, I'd like to introduce you to where I'll be spending a lot of time in the near future: To help expidite our phase 2 recording efforts, I setup a make-shift workstation adjacent to where we are recording. Since coming back from Hounds Hollow, we haven't had a chance to get ...
About half of the songs we're recording will feature some fabulous Fender Baritone Jaguar; in some songs it plays a leading role. It's beautiful sounding guitar with a ton of character and depth. Trying to record it though, is a little bit more difficult. It has a tone somewhere between a guitar and bass, though it ...
As you may (or may not) be able to tell, we're making a few small changes to this site. Everything should be in tip-top shape, but there's always a chance for some stray css to go awry, or for an image to be missing here or there ... so please bear with us.
Necessary accoutrements for what seems like the first beautiful evening in Somerville. Davis square is jumping tonight, so it's time to partake. p. s. Loki can sniff out mashed potatoes anywhere ...
It's nice to have my DSLR back. I had lost my battery chager before we left for Hounds Hollow, so i was relegated to iPhone photos after the first day or so, but after scouring the house today, i finally found it; now i'm back in business. Hopefully that means i'll be posting more photos from ...
Now that we're back from recording at Hounds Hollow, we start phase two: finishing up the songs back at the "homestead". Tonight begins this phase, where we'll be working on some more bass and baritone jaguar tracks. We did get about half of the songs worth of bass and jaguar done at the 'Hollow, so ...
I'm a bit of a graphing/charting nerd (everything looks better and is easier to understand when graphed). Since there is a lot of moving parts with recording an album, a nice big chart to help keep things organized and moving forward makes perfect sense. For each song there dozens of parts to record, re-record, mix, ...
So, I'm posting a take of a dry drum track of one of our new songs called (for now anyway) "Talk You Down". I don't think anyone has heard this song as we have yet to play it live, so consider this a sneak peak. What you hear is a quick drum mix that has ...
I started to comp some bass tracks from Hounds Hollow. We recorded a ton of stuff and now we have to pull out the best sounding tracks in the light of day. Listening back to the drum tracks, I'm really happy with how they sound. I'll post some samples shorty, but honestly they're ...
Tracking some baritone Jaguar on "Meteor Flights" by Logic's glow. This will be our first true recording of this song. We started to demo it a few months ago before we ran into some dongle issues; in other words, I lost the dongle. What's a dongle? Well, let's just say that is ...
Wake up this morning, a day after recording "True North", to find that we did indeed use a kick drum mic on the snare - I guess it wasn't a dream after all. The funny thing is that as I'm listening back to the drum tracks, it works. I'm not really sure how or why, ...
Today hasn't gone as smootly as I would have liked. My Dunnett snare started acting up on me, but we finally managed to smack it into shape. I've got one more song to do tonight, which will make four today. I'm pretty happy with four-a-days for drums. The tracking should pick up ...
