be still by Carrie Nations (Athens, GA)

be still was supposed to be a self titled lp but because of the graffiti in the picture used for the cover, everyone called it be still. this record was recorded at asa leffer's home studio in an a-frame that had a loft. the main room reached all the way up to the top of the a-frame so was two stories. the vocal booth was the loft overlooking the main room. the back bedroom was the recording booth. the chill zone had a first gen playstation for those of us not recording something. we recorded everything live and then over dubbed the vocals and any of the guitars that needed it. handle bars was not recorded at the a-frame. ian recorded it at home on his tape recorder using a pair of old headphones as the microphone. at the end of the recording, we invited all of our friends over for a keg party and recorded the crowd vocals for top gun. we included our favorite internet meme at the time, "hello my future girlfriend", for the intro and outro because it was hilarious.

carrie nations was a band from athens, georgia that played energetic basement pop and bedroom punk songs from 2001 to 2006.iIan mccord and andré gallant played guitar and sang, jon andrews played bass, and forrest effer played the drums. we played loud, fast, sweetly, and sincerely. we meant every word and believed in every chord.

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