"Take You On A Cruise" mean, it's
It's like people ask you, like so often, like, what are your favorite songs?
And it's really an honest answer, like I really don't personally have them
And that's the reason why we are, I look at our
You know, our band is like an album's band
Because it's really, each song really has its purpose
Under the umbrella of ten or 11 songs
They really, you know, each one has its place
Whether it's track two, three or four, five, six, seven
They have, you know, they have its purpose
But Take You On A Cruise, I do have a bit of a special fondness and
A part of the actual composition, but then there's also that like
You know, there's a memory I have
Of actually listening to this song while we're recording it
And ahem, essentially we, everything was tracked
All the music was already like recorded
And then we're kind of at the 11th hour as far as mixing it
And Paul is still kind of like working on vocal ideas 'til the very, very end
And I remember we were actually at the studio called Tarkin Studios
Where we recorded and mix the first two records up in Connecticut
And I remember Peter, who was, you know
The engineer and the owner of the studio
We went up one morning to like kind of start mixing "Take You On A Cruise"
We still hadn't heard the vocals yet
And we're kind of like, you know, what's it going to be like?
And those moments are like, you know, it's kind of a crazy moment
To go to start mixing the song and not know what the
What the vocal is going to be like
And we're really at a time, you know
The deadline of when we had to kind of finish the album
But then we heard what Paul had recorded the night before
And it was like such a pleasing euphoric moment where it was like so incredible
And to this day, like, it's like, it goes from being like, I want it to be like
To all of a sudden just being, relief again, would not be the right word
It'd be more of like, just like, I was elated, you know, it was like so excited
And it was just like, it was like, I just kind of want to, you know
Want to keep, kept on hearing it over and over again
I just wanted to press play and it was incredible
So then to all of a sudden, then I think we probably mix it all in that one day
So you go from experience of not knowing the vocals
Which is the most recognizable element on a song right
By the end of it, like having a finished song
By the end of the day having a finished song, you know mix was
It was something that I still remember
I still remember it being like sunny outside
'Cause it was like a skylight in the studio and
And I had a very similar experience for a song that we didn't record today
But on the new record "Same Town, New Story" where
Came in one day and Paul just did like
Incredible work bass-wise and vocal-wise
And just came out of left field as far as
Where I had heard the song previously
And it just was I was like again like he laid it
So, those kinds of moments where you have like a surprise
And it's like really like oh man, this is just
I didn't see it's coming, but I'm just you know super excited by where
Where where we, where we've taken it
So "Take You On A Cruise" really has that moment for me