182 The Small Things - Amazing All The Small Things Tracking Sheet

So recently, Blink 182's Mark Hoppus was looking through a bunch of old papers and came across the tracking sheet used in the studio for their song "All The Small Things." Talk about awesome. Here's the blog excerpt and picture of the famous tracking sheet for 182 The Small Things.

in getting ready for the blink-182 tour, we’ve been going back and listening to the original recordings of the songs. today i came across the original tracking sheet from “all the small things.” ah, the old days of tape, where you had to commit to a sound and go with it. back then we thought we were super fancy because we had the drums all recorded on one reel, and the other tracks recorded on a slave reel of 24 tracks, giving us an entire 40 tracks to record on! (the drums were all recorded on 16 track 2 inch…) nowadays, on pro-tools HD, 40 tracks is barely enough for the drums and percussion for a song sometimes.

some notes: it says “new bass” on tracks 7 & 8 after i bought the fender precision bass named “petey” halfway through the album, and wanted to re-record most of the bass parts with it. looking back at this track sheet is amazing. apparently tom used his les paul on most of the main guitar tracks. in the chorus 3rd and octave guitar tracks, it looks like a gold-top les paul was used, probably jerry finn’s. he had the most amazing collection of instruments anyone has ever seen. seeing this tracking sheet really makes me miss jerry. he was so rad.

hard to believe this was recorded 10 years ago.

anyway, i thought it’d be cool to share this tracking sheet. there are a lot more, and maybe if people are interested i’ll post them as well in the future.