ah WASTY BINGO: Brian Rudduck (left), Matt By iyanski, Victoria Baumgardner and Brian Baumgardner GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE NASTY BINGO OVERCOMES HOME RECORDING MISHAPS BY DON THRASHER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Recording an album is always something of an adventure for inde- pendent bands. When you're tak- ing the do-it your- self, home-record- ing route like local group Nasty Bingo did, you have to be prepared for anything. Victoria Baumgardner (vocal, i tar, mandolin, gong, conga), her hus band, Brian (uitar, banjo, whistle, hambone, snare drum) and band: mates Matt Byanski (vocal, kaz00, percussion) and Brian Rudduck (bass, piano, synth, kick drum), recorded their new album at their practice space in the basement of the Baumgardner's East Dayton home. ‘The comfortable environment was the perfect setting for a hassle-free recording experience “It was nice to be able to take our time recording,” Rudduck said. “AIL how to go WH: Nasty Boo alk Nbrasia WHERE: Son Pa Wye ve Dayon WHEN: 3p Fry. Now 19 cost s5 MORE INFO: (957) 586.9525 ARTIST INFO: . nstybingo com the bands I've been in, you've only got so much money, so you go into the studio, bust out a few tracks and pick the best ones. Doing it here we actually experimented. We came up with stuff to change the songs and re-crafted some of them.” “It was fun to experiment,” Vie- toria Baumgardner said. “The big thing is we don't really have egos. We're all kind of laid back about things, and we each bring our own thing to it. We just let each other do whatever and if it sounds bad we'll say, ‘Hey,’ but that doesn't usually happen.” The home recording session began in January 2009, and the musicians took their time crafting a fittingly intimate acoustic-pop rock. However the project was further delayed by a series of technical issues. “We had the raw tracks done for six songs, and then the computer crashed in the spring,” Byanski said, “It took us another couple of months to get up and running again, It was fortu- nate though, because we wrote anoth- cer song, and we brought back anoth- cer song we had done. We had more material, and we were more comfort- able with it, soit was kind of a bless- ing, really that it happened that way.” “Then we thought we lost it a ‘ond time,” Brian Baumgardner said His bandmates all groan in unison. “We were all like, ‘I don't know if want to do this again.’ Luckily we were able to find it, and now we back everything up.” Alter an extended delay, the mem bers of Nasty Bingo are pleased to be able to celebrate the release of their selftitled debut at South Park Tavern ‘on Friday, Nov. 19. “It sucked to have to do it all again,” Victoria Baumgardner said, “But even if it took us two more years, we didn’t care as long as we had something we were proud of.” CONTACT contribu Taher at dal