Latté Days & Porter Nights – Officer’s Club Edition

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I’ve been itching to re-visit this old album for a while now, especially now that I’ve learned a LOT about mixing my own records. Well thanks to your support, I’m now able to give this album the love it deserves. Well, almost… I still can’t afford to take the whole thing into a real studio and have Benny Grotto mix this sucker. Maybe we’ll do that for the 20th anniversary (or if enough people join the club).

Anyway, I wanted to let you know that I’ll be releasing real-instrument versions of these songs one month at a time through the Officer’s Club. I’ve decided not to re-record any of the vocal parts, though. I think my voice reflects my particular place in life fairly accurately and changing that would fundamentally change the song.

That being said, adding Runtt’s drumming has fundamentally changed this song.

It’s amazing. Most of Beer & Coffee featured my old friend Andrew Dickson on an electronic drum kit, but the original Latté Days & Porter Nights was mostly a looped bit of keyboard drumming. Seriously, you can hear the exact same fill before every chorus.

Not any more.