The Recording of “Half-Eaten Tuna Sandwich”
JIZZY Stradlin here from Hair Metal Radio bringing you another installation of Inside the Studio. Today I wanted to share with all six of our rabid fans exactly what it’s like to record with HMR. We get questions all the time like, “Who are you?” and “How did you get into my bathroom?” but today we’d like to answer BOTH those questions, which directly relate to the recording of our 15th double-album, “Half-Eaten Tuna Sandwich.” HEY YEAH ALRIGHT!!!!
Before he was arrested for a crime we have proof he committed, Phil Spector was working on the album with us. We wanted his wall of sound approach to be renamed to the “Butt of Sound” approach and we were getting pretty close to that before he mysteriously disappeared to prison for the rest of his stupid life. The bass was as farty as it could get, the drums sounded unbelievably thick and lumpy, the guitar sound was just shit and all the lyrics were total crap. The “butt of sound” approach was almost done, and take it from me folks, it was probably the best that the Hair Metal genre has ever sounded.
When the label heard the album, they shit their pants. Unanimously. Some bald idiot jumped up and said “I’ve never… I can’t…” and then died right there in the listening session of an unrelated medical condition. That’s when we got the idea to re-title our lead single from “Axelgasm” to “Shit Free or Die Trying” which went double-grammy and won a Platinum, or at least that is how it was explained to me by my roommate, Albert.
Oh… Anyway being in the studio with us is awesome. That’s what I wanted to say. I’m not very good at using a word processing machine so I’ll just say that yea it was a good time with lots of hairspray used indoors in a tiny, poorly ventilated room, there was more warm beer than one can dream of, and Nikki Stix actually recorded most of his parts completely blacked out on a nearly toxic mix of Creatine and Nestle Quick. The best part of recording for me is that I just get to hang out with the guys while Jimi records all my bass parts. If anyone asks, being a bassist is THE TITS.
Anyway! That’ll be all for this installment! Next post will be about how I pre-write all of Axel’s lyrics using a smartphone while on the toilet. ROCK ON, HMR Legion!
-JS
HMR
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Ya all just got me jumping in my drawers oh my oh my just liven to see ya all again, hot hot hot,,,xoxo
You all really are the best ever ever I did see,,,,,
Hey……..what ever happened to the other half of that sandwich anyway…….my guess is that it’s safely tucked away in one of Nikki Stixx’s bass drums that doubles as a wet bar. No wonder it takes him 3 hours to strike is rig…..he’s hooking up the water line for the ice cube maker…………….AS