Hey, folks. Today's episode features Adam Carson of AFI. But first, friend of the show and former guest,

Patty Shemel stopped by to read an excerpt from her new book, Hit So Hard. The book chronicles Patty's

early fascination with music, her inspiring story of addiction and recovery, and her time drumming for

whole. Here she talks about

getting a drum sound for the band's influential album, Live Through This. In October 1993,

we went to Marietta, Georgia to record Live Through This at Triclops, the studio where the

Smashing Pumpkins had made Siamese dream. Our producers were Paul Coldery and Sean Slade,

who'd worked with Radiohead and Dinosaur Jr.

We buckled down in the studio and took advantage of our new major label perks.

My experiences with recording were one step above DIY,

very punk, poor person bootlegs.

I never had the luxury of many takes,

or time of trying different simple tones on for size.

This time our instruments would be shipped and delivered to the rehearsal space for us.

Now I'd have my own tech whose job it was to set up and tune the drums and arrange all the mics before I arrived.

Now I would participate in the conversations about the size and quality of the room we were in and how it would affect the sound.

Courtney showed up rehearsals a couple days after the rest of us did.

When she got to the studio, she came in and asked Sean the first thing,

what's that drum mic on the snare? It's a sure 57. Courtney said something about Steve Albini.

I sat down at my drums and Sean left the room and went back into the control room.

Courtney leaned over my kick drum and asked me about the mics.

How do your drum sound? I like the way things were sounding. Pretty good. Come in and listen.

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