...18 years ago...

Up early - 9:30. We get ourselves together. Brian shows up at 10 and we load the van - drums, six guitars and a lap steel, two bass amps, five or six guitar amps etc. All pile in - Lee remains to pick up Dave R. who is supposed to be arriving by plane at 11AM.

We drive to te studio (pick up drum heads at "Tommy's Drum Shop" on the way - a great store). Nice studio - meet Mike the engineer. He's the nice guy Brian made him out to be and more. We set up and begin to cut tracks. By 11:30PM or so we had three or four tunes on tape. Home - Dave R. is there. All talk and we play him a cassette we made today. He seems pleased with the test tape.

Tommy's is still considered one of the best shops in town. The studio we recorded was the "Fire Station" in San Marcos Texas. Mike Stewart is an Austin based producer and manager.