The Audio Perv

Thanks for tuning into the latest installment of Let’s Get Personal (Welcome To 1,2,3 Land) as we look into 1,2,3′s recording process of their forthcoming concept double album Big Weather. When we last checked in with the band, they were working on the song “When The Levee Broke at the County Fair.”

In today’s episode, you’ll see how Josh was nearly sidelined with an injury and how a computer problem put the band in a deep hole. Will they overcome it? Watch the video below but first, a few words from Nic Snyder and another free MP3 from the band’s previous album New Heaven

This song started out on the front porch and just kept growing. Next thing you know it’s on the back porch, then down by the garbage cans and before we knew it, it got into the basement and started lurking around after practices and fruitless recording sessions. I kept hoping I’d wake up one morning and it would have finished itself, but it clearly had no intentions of finishing itself. Now it’s over seven minutes long and is choking out the other songs on deck like an endless weed winding around the azaleas. After awhile we just had to record the damn thing in hopes that it would leave us alone one day. But it’s still giving us hell and growing out sideways now to the point where it’s gonna bust through the block glass of the basement window, spraying out onto the lawn, hiding in the bed of the neighbor’s Tundra. Think I’ll make the lyrics about a wild fire. “Peerless fire…swaying from pinetrees, licking the planes.”