Well here is another story from the annals of guerilla recordists. Back in 2006 my friend Mike Striler used to host an open mic night at our local watering hole the Mas Fina Cantina. This was not like you're regular sign up and get ten minutes on stage, this was a once weekly jam/therapy session. We definitely had a core group of players that made it out to this jam but there were always wildcard players that would stop in and turn Tuesday night into an elevated experience. I could go on and on about this group of players (I grew up with most of them) but the point of this exercise to talk about unconventional “Guerilla” recording techniques.
We decided that we wanted to record a Tuesday night live and surprise all of our buddies with live tracks of their music the following week when we saw them. Cool...easy...a quick live recording setup. This is not the case at the Mas Fina Cantina. First thing that you have to understand about the Cantina is that space is extremely limited especially for the musicians. Basically you move a table and put the drums right there by the back door in front of a closet that houses a small powered mixer used for vocals. And here is the kicker...the patrons actually walk through the band to go to visit the loo. So...how in the hell were we going to pull off a multitrack live recording. Well us primates borrowed an idea from the Rolling Stones. We were going to pull off our version of the mobile recording truck. Or in our case, a Honda CX7.
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