SR: Ok, well please describe your recording studio you’re working in.
Russel: Well, we work in my house, in a studio. We’re in Los Angeles and we’ve recorded the last, I think 5 albums, something like that, at my studio and um. Today news technologies relatively accessible to anyone compared to what it was before where you were always obligated to be, to have a record company financing your recording and now the way we’re working, with the new album we worked for a year and a half on it and there’d be absolutely no way in the past, before to record in that kind of manner. Where you take your time you know, and think about what you’re doing, 8 hours in the studio a day and maybe throw away what you’d done from those 8 hours but now with technology and being able to work from home you can have that kind of luxury of taking as long as you want. Here we have a studio with digital, you know digital recorders and all that sort of stuff and we just we like the freedom and there is a certain kind of atmosphere that we don’t like when you step into what you normally think of as a professional recording studio, a commercial studio where there’s other people kind of lurking around and even if they’re not always kind of in your studio, there is just a feeling that you’re being watched and we kind of like the feeling of just basically just the 2 of us in a room and there is no outside kind of, you know activity whatsoever, and you can just focus and you don’t have to think of having anyone listening to what you’re doing, because its inhibiting when you start worrying about whether somebody else, even an engineer, what he’s thinking about during the process. We’re totally self-contained, I do the engineering and Ron does all the composing and playing and so we’re really self-contained in that kind of way. And then when we need outside musicians or a guitar we have two people that are our regular musicians.