2008

July 10-12, 2008 Dave attends VH1 Rock Honors The Who to assist with Flaming Lips recording.
June 16, 2008 Saxon Shore. Mixing.
May 26, 2008 Dave is in working with Marlo Angell and Peter Jasso on their movie, Waiting For The Son.
May 18, 2008 Saxon Shore are here working on a new record.
April 30, 2008 The Flaming Lips finish their movie.
April 3, 2008 Zazen Boys played at BJs. This was a great treat.
March 26, 2008 Zazen Boys arrive from Japan to work with Dave.
March 19, 2008 Flaming Lips are here finishing Christmas on Mars some more.
March 5, 2008 Mercury Rev finish a new album with Dave.
February 20, 2008 Future Clouds and Radar mixing with Dave.
January 23, 2008 Flaming Lips are here finishing Christmas on Mars.
January 5, 2008 Mercury Rev return to work with Dave on their new record.

2007

December 27, 2007 Junkbutton record with Ryan Laurie.
December 20, 2007 Dave masters Love Parade.
December 16, 2007  Dave masters Carbon Copycats/Captain Bringdown.
December 2007 Flaming Lips At War With The Mystics 5.1 is up for a Best Surround Sound Album Grammy.
December 5, 2007 Mercury Rev working on new album.
November 28, 2007 Dave is mastering the new Scott Reynolds and the Steaming Beast record.
November 5, 2007 Mercury Rev begin a new record with Dave.
October 23, 2007 MGMT are here recording B-Sides with Dave for Columbia.
October 8, 2007 The nice unnamed gentlemen return.
September 27, 2007 Apollo Sunshine is here, mixing.
September 25, 2007 MGMT plays a show at BJs.
September 10, 2007 A really nice bunch of guys came to record here with Dave.
August 10, 2007 Flaming Lips here finishing Hollywood Bowl concert with George and Dave.
June 26, 2007 Japanese band, Mass of The Fermenting Dregs, are here recording a song with Dave. Out of 800 bands, they are the winners of the Road To Tarbox Audition held by Toshiba/EMI.
May 23, 2007 Flaming Lips.
May 2, 2007 Pips, Chips and Videoclips are here from Croatia, mixing their next album with Dave.
April 18, 2007 More MGMT.
March 21, 2007 MGMT here recording with Dave for Columbia Records.
February 28, 2007 The Flaming Lips return, more live surround mixing, some movie soundtracks, soundtracking.
February 11, 2007 Flaming Lips At War With The Mystics wins 2 grammys: Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered.
February 17, 2007 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Some Loud Thunder #47 on Billboard Top 200.
February 7, 2007 De Novo Dahl here from Nashville, TN mixing some songs with Dave for Roadrunner.
January 18, 2007 Dave is mixing two concerts with the Flaming Lips, one for an HD-Dvd release and one for a standard Dvd release.
January 15, 2007 Tarbox upgrades to ProTools 7.3 with an Intel Mac. We now have PS3 for Blu-ray playback and Xbox 360 for HD-Dvd playback. (Get ready, surround sound is getting even more complicated.) Also, new kitchen table and chairs...
January 2007 Flaming Lips At War With The Mystics nominated for 3 Grammys, Best Alternative Music Album, Best Rock Instrumental Performance, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
We also got a new toaster and a new couch at the studio. Dave got a Kaoss Pad 3 for Christmas as well!!

2006

December 15, 2006 Junkbutton recording with Greg Snow and Ryan Laurie.
December 11, 2006 Steve Burns returns. Working on a couple songs with Dave.
November 16, 2006 Dave attends a mastering session at Sterling Sound for the new Low record.
November 9, 2006 Dave masters a new Helmsley record.
November 1, 2006 Robert Harrison is here from Austin, Texas mixing a few songs with Dave for his upcoming Future Clouds and Radar release.
October 21, 2006 More Low.
September 29, 2006 Low here to do some recording with Dave.
September 10, 2006 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah return to finish their record.
August 23, 2006 Dave mixes a Polyphonic Spree song.
August 7, 2006 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
July 29, 2006 Lightning strikes the studio. We are hustling to repair/replace affected gear before next sessions..Thanks as always to Greg Snow and Vecchio for all the help.
July 23, 2006 Dave supervises audio recording of Flaming Lips Hollywood Bowl show in California.
June 26, 2006 Scott Reynolds here from Austin finishing up the Steaming Beast record.
June 17, 2006 Brazil are back finishing their record.
June 5, 2006 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah begin working with Dave on a new record.
June 3, 2006 Mercury Rev here mastering a new Essentials and BSides album.
May 10, 2006 Thursday A City By The Light Divided #20 on Billboard this week.
May 8, 2006 Brazil here from Indiana making a record with Dave for Immortal.
April 12, 2006 Flaming Lips At War With The Mystics is #11 on Billboard this week.
April 10, 2006 Longwave are here recording a couple songs with Dave.
March 29, 2006 Steve Burns is here mixing the songs he recorded back in Jan. 2005.
March 23, 2006 Dave is mixing a Scott Reynolds song.
March 22, 2006 Dave is remastering The People's Front album, Speeches of Articulate Poison.
March 21, 2006 Dave doing a Thursday remix.
March 20, 2006 Dave attends a mastering session at Sterling Sound for the new Thursday record.
March 6, 2006 Dave is in mastering a new Dan Berrgren album.
February 20, 2006 Ok kids...Regarding The Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin 5.1 Warner Brothers cd mixup(see feb. 4)..The address for sending the cd back is incorrect on the website and the dvd itself, I guess...???!!! The correct address I am told is: The Flaming Lips P.O. Box 3265 Edmond OK 73083 USA. If you need to contact a person about this, contact derek at world's fair:derek@worlds-fair.net. He will help you out.
February 6, 2006 Thursday are back for mixing.
February 4, 2006 Soft Bulletin 5.1....On January 27, a Friday, we finally received a copy of the pressing of The Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin 5.1. That's when we discovered that the dvd wouldn't play properly on two of our four dvd players and that the wrong cd had been included in the package. We informed Warner Brothers of the problems we were having and they should be shipping the correct cds by now. Also, for people who ended up with wrong cd (I would be bummed, actually I am; I really want that version of the record!), you can contact the Lips via their PO Box and exchange the cd. As for the dvd problem, there has been a change in the dvd specification that affects most Pioneer dvd players and many Chinese import dvd players that do not comply to the new specification. Pioneer is aware of the problem and we are told they will update your firmware for free.
January 16, 2006 Latest project: Flaming Lips At War With The Mystics 5.1.
January 2, 2006 Thursday back for Island recording with Dave.

2005

Tarbox Charting:!! Time Magazine has Sleater-Kinney The Woods in their top 12 list. Mojo has The Woods #12. Rolling Stone has The Woods #12. Spin has The Woods #35. Pitchfork has The Woods #19. CMJ 30 Best has The Woods #14. Amazon Editors Picks has Low The Great Destroyer #49 and The Woods #60. Buffalo Gusto has Mercury Rev The Secret Migration #5 in their top 10 Albums of The Year List. The meta-critic has The Woods #6 on their 30 best reviewed list..
December 12, 2005 The Flaming Lips return to the Southern Tier to finish the stereo version of At War With The Mystics...
November 28, 2005 Thursday returns to continue work on their new record.
November 4, 2005 Flaming Lips recording for Warner Brothers.
October 15, 2005 Thursday begins recording a new record with Dave for Island Records.
October 13, 2005 Our friend Kevin Scott died yesterday. He worked at The Site in San Francisco and we went to college with him. He was one of those really good guys. Of course. My sympathy goes out to my friends in San Fran because I know what he meant to them...An unexpected heart attack at the age of 41. Damn.
October 3, 2005 Dave's mixing some Quasi.
September 9, 2005 The Sleepy Jackson here from Australia mixing a new record with Dave.
August 18, 2005 Thursday visit with us here to see what it's all about.
August 3, 2005 The Flaming Lips are here working on their new record.
August 1, 2005 Dave mixes a song for Art School.
June 24, 2005 Saxon Shore mixing.
June 23, 2005 Bill Whitten here mastering the new Grand Mal record with Dave.
June 14, 2005 Flaming Lips return for more.
June 11, 2005 Dave attends Tape Op Conference 2005 in New Orleans. He and F. Reid Shippen do a mixing demonstration and he is also included on the Producer's panel. It would seem that the new Sleater-Kinney album is causing distress amongst certain of the audio community and other types of purists. I would venture to wonder if perhaps we are becoming afraid of.....ROCK!!!????? Could it be even worse that the people that are really rocking are women? Maybe it is just fear of change. I dunno. People are really riled up and a lot of people really love this album too. So...It would seem, a success. Don't blame Greg; it was mastered correctly. Don't blame this on Dave; he didn't write it.
June 2005 Sleater-Kinney The Woods #1 CMJ Radio 200 Charts.
June 7, 2005 Dave is in finishing a song for Trespasser's William.
May 26, 2005 Dave has found it necessary to cancel a mixing session with the Japanese band, Art School. Due to ill health, he is going to take several weeks off in an attempt to regain his faculties. It would seem the borg-like schedule he has been maintaining for the last five years is finally catching up with him; he is human after all! (After regeneration assimilation will begin anew).
May 18, 2005 Saxon Shore are here recording with Dave for Burnt Toast Vinyl.
May 4, 2005 Flaming Lips here recording with Dave.
May 1, 2005 Dave does a Sigur Ros mix for Geffen.
April, 20, 2005 Trespassers William are here from Seattle, mixing an upcoming album for Nettwerk Records.
April 17, 2005 Scott Reynolds and The Steaming Beast.
April 2005 Tarbox surround issues are finally sorted out with a final system that includes Prism ADA-XR Converter, StudioComm 68/69 Monitoring System, and additional Quested Monitors.
April 1, 2005 The Flaming Lips record Bohemian Rhapsody for a Queen tribute in stereo and surround.
March 30, 2005 After tomorrow, the Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin Surround project should be finished.
March 18, 2005 Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet in recording with Dave.
March 2, 2005 Dave and Michael Ivins in not finishing the Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin in surround sound.
February 18, 2005 The Flaming Lips are here at Tarbox working on a new album for Warner Brothers Records with Dave.
February 8, 2005 Another day with Lake Trout.
February 2, 2005 Finishing Lips Soft Bulletin in Surround. And on to the extras.
January 2005 Low The Great Destroyer #1 CMJ Radio 200 Chart.
Jan. 26, 2005 Steve Burns here recording some songs.
Jan. 19, 2005 Lips Surround. Also, Dietzen Carpets in replacing flooring in control room, bedrooms, upstairs bathroom and kitchen.
Jan. 18, 2005 Gritty Midi in mixing some more.
Jan. 17, 2005 Dave attends Sleater-Kinney mastering session at Sterling Sound.
Jan. 14, 2005 Bass Piggy Session 12 from 2001 is mixed.
Jan. 10, 2005 Scott Reynolds recording more stuff with Dave and Steven.
Jan. 6, 2005 Lake Trout in mixing with Dave.

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