Former KISS guitarist BRUCE KULICK has entered the studio to begin recording his next solo CD, which for now is titled BK3. He has decided to keep a studio blog to let fans follow the process of recording the new CD:

"Well... back to work on BK3! Finally have some time to get recording again. As you may know I did drums back in December and January. Brent Fitz (Union/Vince Neil/ Theory Of A Deadman/Alice Cooper) did 10 tracks in December and then Eric Singer came in with his crazy schedule to do one song for me in January. Sadly I have not done any more work since. Touring Brazil and Argentina, counseling at the UK Fantasy Camp and Grand Funk shows now in full swing have made it hard to find time to book a session, but I hope to get a day or two a week now that I am home. Well it was finally one of those days that I could book, and all I can say is AWESOME! Got Brian Virtue (Audioslave/Korn) to engineer this session and that is great as his schedule is tight. We worked at his studio where I have recorded for Thomas Ian Nicolas before.

Big guitars were laid down on a song I call 'Rocker' which, when you hear it, will melt your ears. That is the track Eric Singer played on. Just put a few rhythms down, and then added a third tasty riff guitar. Started with my ESP signature prototype neck thru guitar, and then doubled with a 58 RI Gibson Les Paul. Added some tasty riffs on my vintage 53 conversion Les Paul Standard. Jeremy Rubolino (my co-writer and co-producer) agreed that the solo on the demo for this track may have to be a keeper. He played it for me and even Brian agreed that I nailed something special and we can work with it. I was hoping some of the hard work Jeremy and I did on the demos can be used for the final product.

Bass guitar on the 'Rocker' tune was shared on the demo by Jeremy and I so we did the same in studio, as he has a good vibe for the verses and I seem to nail the chorus feel the best. Nice distorted bass sound was used. Brian is great at using anything and everything to make things sound huge. I used my cool Marshall head that was the first prototype of the popular 900 series for the rhythm tracks. Much warmer sound then you would expect, but I have done lots of recording with this particular head. Brian has a Bogner that we used for some of the overdubs, and even used it to get the gain for the bass sound. Rip your head off to hear this 1966 Fender Precision bass so powerful. But we were going for a huge Simmons sound if I do admit.

Next up was a very catchy rocker, that sadly doesn't have a title yet. I have some special ideas for it, but today it was getting great sounds out of my ESP signature model for the main track, and then for the verses I added Boss Chorus CE 2 pedal I picked up in Austin, Texas a few weeks back during my Grand Funk trip. Known for its sweet chorus sounds, this sound and part was harder to perfect, but we nailed it in about 20 minutes.

We loved that chorused sound so much Jeremy had an idea for a another clean part, so I just handed him the guitar. He looked shocked, as he wasn't really believing I wanted him to play it for real. But you know instead of him teaching me the part, it was better to produce him doing it. We worked it out and it was a nice icing on the cake for the track. We never got to replace the demo bass, but we will pick up on that one next week. Very excited about how good it sounded. I haven't heard Brent's drum performance in quite a while on this song, and he rocked it great. Eric's performance on the 'Rocker' is classic Singer riffing on the drums, to say the least. Glad I don't have to listen to the drum programs anymore from the songs.

So day four was VERY productive and I want to thank Brian Virtue and Jeremy Rubolino for a great day. Also the yummy Thai restaurant that delivered our meal. Great start to the recording of the guitars on my new BK3 disc.

More as I go along. Can't wait to get back to work on it."