In November 2002, a few months after mixing the King Crimson TPTB CD, Trey and I absconded to Matt Chamberlains loft studio in Seattle with engineer, Bill Munyon.
Being Seattle (a city that drinks a lot of coffee), we formed a daily habit
of drinking strong coffee which was immediately followed by more coffee and
then jam. Later, we would drink more coffee, organize the jam into a form,
and drink more coffee and jam again. By the end of the day, which was
really the beginning of the next day, we would pause for coffee and Absinthe while Bill
would do a rough mix. After some sleep followed by coffee, we would repeat
the process allowing the muse to take us where she willed, which was usually
for more coffee and jam (except for that one day with smoked salmon and
coffee). After 10 days of this we had 90% of what is now called TU. The last 8% required calander breaks and still more coffee. The remaining TU% are divided evenly between chocolate chip scones and orange cranberry muffins.