Friday, October 9, 2009

For your viewing pleasure...

@thezomb made this for our listening and viewing pleasure.
Thank You Love K.B.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

This is how today went in the studio.
Love K.B.

Scary Monsters and Super Freaks!
Someone out there in internut land made this video of a few of the Spirits In The Sky members doing a song and dance number. In this video you will find Mark Tulin, Dave Navarro, Billy Corgan, Linda Strawbery and myself as monsters. Enjoy and thanks to the person that made this. I got a good laugh.
Love K.B.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009


Deep into song 3
Today Billy finished the vocals and sitar parts for the song and we are currently tracking the violin. It is looking like the song will be in the can by tonight or by midday tomorrow. I am very happy with the outcome and excited for you to hear it. It seems to me that we have found that place where sound is vision. @sunflowerdagger asked me today on twitter "sound. how would you define such a word?" Without thinking about it I replied "colorful continuous vibrations" and this song is a magic pulsing rainbow.

We had a special surprise today when the beautiful Lisa Harriton stopped by the studio to say hello and took a moment to try out Billy's Mellon Collie piano. This is the piano he wrote many of the songs for Mellon Collie, Adore and Machina on.

We have been so busy that I haven't had time to finish the Q&A but, I will as time allows and I am going to answer all the questions... most likely this will happen when we have time between breaking down from song 3 and setting up for song 4. So, hang with me, I will get to the rest of your questions and I will get to "tech Tuesday" hopefully before next Tuesday.

Love K.B.

Monday, October 5, 2009



Music Monday for sure.

It looks like we are pulling a late one tonight. We spent most of the day tracking mandolin and it seems we are making some real progress on song number 3. A few minutes ago Ysanne Spevack picked up her Metal String Machine and was getting ready to lay down some space symphony tones when out of nowhere a 12 string banjo appeared in the control room and Billy started jamming on it. So, it looks like we are going to be here for a long, long time tonight especially if these crazy instrument keep popping out of thin air but, you gotta love the magic! My guess is we will be getting back to Q&A tomorrow on Tech Tuesday. Mr. Mark Tulin A.K.A. Professor Psychedelic will be asking the fan generated questions via web cam from Los Angeles, CA. This should be fun and technical too. Sooooo, sleep tight and I'll find you tomorrow morning with coffee in hand.
Love K.B.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Good morning fans and "lostfan"


I woke up this morning, grabbed my coffee and started reading over the "comments." I want to thank ALL of you for the interesting and emotional remarks left on this blog. It is starting to feel like we have a family here. It may be dysfunctional at times but, family is family. The energy in the studio that Billy and the rest of us are feeling is... well... just beyond words, except for "breathtaking, awe-inspiring, magnificent, wonderful, amazing, stunning, staggering, imposing, stirring, impressive, mind-boggling, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping, excellent, marvelous and wondrous!"

Here is a video of my good friends R.E.M. jamming with puppets.



An interesting side note: My wife and I met while she was filming the movie Man on the Moon. While very pregnant with our daughter we went to see R.E.M. at the Hollywood Bowl. Before the show Michael touched her pregnant belly and sure enough, the next day she was born listening to their song Man on the Moon!

OK, I'm off to my Maggie's 6th birthday party.

LOVE K.B.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Here are a few photos Billy sent me from the studio today.


When the cat is away the rat in a cage will play.

I am in L.A. for my daughters 6th birthday and will be back in Chicago this Sunday night. Just wanted to give you a quick update on what is going on in the studio. The word from Billy is "yesterday was an awesome day" he tracked lead guitar, piano, and organ on song number 2. Today he recorded the vocals. So it looks like when I get back to Chicago we start tracking song number 3!
Have a great weekend.
LOVE K.B.