We recorded a lot of guitar overdubs today, and Jeff played "the" guitar solo on the song "Petals of Ruin." We tracked both Jeff's Cosmic Antenna handpainted Les Paul through my VOX AC 30 and we ran my Tele through the HH Amp head through a lime green Port City 4x12 cab, (made in Wilmington, NC.) Sounded great! Also recorded some electric 12 string with the awesome Leslie cab over at Southern Tracks. Lots of work done today. Little editing, and the song will be ready to mix. We recorded a lot of guitar overdubs today, and Jeff played "the" guitar solo on the song "Petals of Ruin." We tracked both Jeff's Cosmic Antenna handpainted Les Paul through my VOX AC 30 and we ran my Tele through the HH Amp head through a lime green Port City 4x12 cab, (made in Wilmington, NC.) Sounded great! Also recorded some electric 12 string with the awesome Leslie cab over at Southern Tracks. Lots of work done today. Little editing, and the song will be ready to mix. LikeUnlike

The long anticipated arrival of my super rare, 1970's HH IC-100 amp has come. This baby is LOUD! Sounds amazing, condition is amazing (we're going to refurbish it with some help from our Brit friends at MAJ to get back to as an original as possible look...this includes some cabinet work, speaker work, grill cloth work, and the addition of the vintage HH Amp Logo on the front.) I'm including a pic in this gallery of the original Ad for the Amp, and you can see how it will look when we're finished restoring it. But, she's in great condition, been checked out on the "variac" by Kevin at Ack, and I fired her up tonight. Perhaps the most stunning feature of the amp, is that around all the knobs, the setting markers and words glow this eerie aqua-purplish blue. It's really an amazing amp. And sounds JUST like what I was wanting. YAY!!!

I will be following the path of my beloved HH IC-100 Amplifier, as it makes its way from Glasgow, Scotland to my home in Atlanta, Georgia. Nerdy? Oh, this is only the tip of my nerd iceberg...

I recorded some nice flanged guitar solos over my song, "Run Away Today" : Ran Jeff's Cosmic Antenna Les Paul that I handpainted a few years back, through a Boss stereo flanger and through a pair of Fender Deluxe Reverb amps; also played both my Tele's through my Vox AC-30 and Boss chorus pedal for some little parts. Returned some other things through the Roland SBF-325, the "flanger" of Bernard Sumner...little Joy Division for ya...it was a long day. Also had the Neumann QM69 quadraphonic mic catching the room sound...whew...Time flies when yer a' flangin'....

In this Southern Tracks session today, we recorded Jeff on the Vibes for "Nighttime Summerman," background vocals, and for "Petals of Ruin" Jeff played an Electric Sitar through the Leslie Cab. We also re-amped a Juno-60 keyboard part through the Leslie Cab for "Run Away Today." Session Engineer: CJ Ridings, Producer: Jeff Calde

Tim DeLaney editing "Run Away Today" by Lisa King and the Hot Place at Southern Tracks Recording; while Greg Fern Quesnel edited guitar parts for "Nighttime Summerman" upstaris in the Pro Tools Suite, July 1st, 2010.

Yes, this will mean nothing to most of you. But, to me, it is a buffet of wonderfulness.

An amazing 2 days at Southern Tracks Recording. Robert Schmid finished all the drum tracks for the album, and Jeff Calder and I overdubbed all the fun stuff: Pedal Steel, Saarang (Electric Tamboura), Gamelan, Tambourine, Shakers, Djembe, Woodblocks, some Backing Vocals, Slide Guitar, all the little icing for the cake. Fun fun fun! Hard to remember to take out the camera when working so hard though. A strange assortment of snaps.

Played with this today for a song called "Petals of Ruin", upcoming. It was beyond hilariously fun.

Mixing 3 different versions of "A Second to Live" at Southern Tracks Recording. Jeff Calder, Producer. Steven Morrison, Engineer. Lisa King and The Hot Place band session.

Tracking the obscure and rare Portative and some grand piano at Southern Tracks Recording in good old 2010. It's not a figment of my imagination. It's real. Jeff Calder, Producer. Steven Morrison, Engineer.

Tracking drums for the Hot Place's upcoming release at Southern Tracks Recording studio, with Jeff Calder, Robert Schmid, Tom Tapley, and Darren Tablan.

Photos of Lisa in the studio, during the recording session for the single, 20th Century.

Hot Place Band Members and Contributors to the sound. Lisa King and Mike Lynn, with Jeff Calder and Robert Schmid.

Lisa King playing with the Swimming Pool Q's and the Glenn Phillips Band.

Lisa King, Mike Lynn, and Ivan Ruyle with their previous band, Unminded.

Various archived photos from several different years.

A series of black and white portraits from the late 1990's, with photographer Peter Heckman.