Glad to hear you like it, OOTS!
OK people. They're on the Craig Ferguson show tonight. Here's their bassist's blog at
www.myspace.com/mutemath on the taping of the show. It's pretty incredible stuff. Be sure to watch them tonight!
A Day in the Life of Filming The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: (Roy's view)
Yesterday was one of the most surreal and memorable experiences of my entire life. From waking up to posters of Casablanca and Casino in a 1950s style hotel room in the Hollywood Hills and spinning “The Price is Right” money wheel at the CBS studios to sharing some wonderful pesto pasta with my wife and having her help me pick out clothes for the show, I couldn’t have planned for a more perfect way to tape our national television debut.
Time shifted oddly throughout the day. The early morning minutes before my alarm went off seemed to drag on forever. I stared at Robert De Niro and asked, “Are you looking at me?” 15 minutes turned into hours, just like that melting clock from Dali.
Nausea crept up on me as we pulled into the CBS parking lot since I didn’t know what to expect, but my sickness quickly went away once I met the people from the show. Everyone who worked with the show was extremely sweet and funny. After sound check, I felt excited and ready to give it my all. I wanted to express high energy and passion for our music, as if we were playing one of our own shows.
Right before show time, seconds stretched into long drifting pauses of silence and slow motion, but once we hit the first note, everything sped back up, catching up and overlapping on itself. Darren played so hard he busted a knuckle and bled over his drums; Paul jumped up on his Rhodes and rocked the keytar like only he can; Greg’s tone hit me in the face and punched me in the stomach with beautiful attitude; and my glasses dared not to stay on my face as I witnessed our debut moments race before us. “Chaos” felt shorter than ever. Then, suddenly, it was all over. The waiting and building for our four minutes of performance time screeched to a grinding halt.
Events like these are things I hope never to take for granted because they come and go so preciously.