From the Photo Archive, August 2022
Good times, explained
Recording at Upfront Audio, late 2017
Photographer: Tom Bernath
Another family album snapshot for you! It turns out that we do not have many photos from our many recording sessions at Upfront Audio in Fairfax, VA, and that’s a shame; plenty of goofy moments are bound to happen whenever we get together to work with Tom (which makes it feel less like work). To be frank, we were not in the habit of posting frequently on Facebook and the like - we were usually dressed for radio, so to speak. Tom took pictures when he could, being understandably quite busy during a session. He did this partly for his own amusement, but also as a way of saying, “You guys need to be more on top of this social media stuff!” Tom, you are correct as always, and hopefully we have leveled up our game since these sessions.
Regardless, this picture fairly represents the mood we dial into when we work on a Rocknoceros studio project. Call it, ‘happy, with some rocking out’. No exact date for this photo, but most likely it was taken during a voice over session for an episode of our short-lived podcast, The Rocknoceros Podnoceros. Sometimes we worked on music tracks as well.
Those podcasts took a lot of work! Well, the last couple episodes were decidedly simpler - more conversational - but the first five episodes involved a complex mix of things: New studio-recorded songs, scripted comedy bits related to the episode’s theme (often with cinematic-like soundscapes), incidental music, and documentary audio. They really are supposed to be movies for your ears. Boogie wore the most hats by far in terms of writing and producing material, while Tom spent serious hours editing and mixing (after recording us, of course). Coach and Williebob contributed some material too, in addition to delivering their performances. All hands on deck!
It is possible that we will make more episodes of ‘The Pod’ at some point in the future, but probably not in 2022. One thing for certain is that we’d want to make them with Tom, our old friend and a great recording engineer-producer. A man of many talents… including playing the bass guitar on our Plymouth Rockers album, which he did from the control room while supervising the recording! (We suspect he was running the mixing board with his feet). Thanks again, Tom Bernath, for all the good times and great work!