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<\/a><\/p>\nPittsburgh has terrible traffic\/roads, a great feel, beautiful countryside, and a handful of these cool yellow bridges:<\/p>\n
We drove around downtown a little bit looking at stuff.<\/p>\n We saw a huge amout of people hanging around, using public transport, smoking, etc. Pretty cool that a non-huge city would have such a high proportion of foot traffic.<\/p>\n By this point I was becoming accustomed to the hilliness of the terrain, narrowness of the roads, and speed of the traffic on this side of the US. To get to our host I had to experience a considerable bit of all of the above.<\/p>\n Speaking of our host, his name is Andy Lehmann and he’s pretty awesome. He put us up on short notice and let us commandeer his basement for a night. Thanks Andy!<\/p>\n Next morning bright and early (8:15!!!) I was off to record with another old college bud of mine, a multitalented bloke who goes by the name of David Santistevan (because that is really his name). He is working as a music director at a church, so we headed over there to record.<\/p>\n David plays all kinds of instruments with aplomb. I had him lay down some piano for me, then we set up for recording his guitar rig<\/p>\n and recorded Dave’s awesome textural electric guitar playing on several tracks. Dave was pretty easy — I just kind of set him loose and he did his thing and it was good.<\/p>\n Awesome!<\/p>\n NEXT: Something else awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The next stop was Pittsburgh. I promise not to make a single joke in this post about anything being “the pits.” Pittsburgh has terrible traffic\/roads, a great feel, beautiful countryside, and a handful of these cool yellow bridges: We drove … Continue reading <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n