- What?
- [Dave] It's here! It's here!
(footsteps leaving)
(door opening)
It's not it.
(both laughing)
- I'm just kidding.
- [Dave] There it is.
- It's here! It's here! It's here!
- We have been saving up for this for so long.
It's here.
Are you so excited?
♪ What it is ♪
♪ What it is, what it is ♪
♪ It ain't all so big ♪
♪ So big, so big ♪
♪ Take it all for what it is ♪
♪ What it is, what it is ♪
♪ It ain't all so big ♪
So this crate right here is 700 pounds.
And this one over here is 1200 pounds.
- How are we gonna get this to the house?
- We gotta get some worker guys.
- We need like a thousand guys.
♪ What it is ♪
♪ What it is, what it is ♪
♪ It ain't all so big ♪
♪ So big, so big ♪
- Think I can get a little push from behind?
♪ What it is, what it is ♪
♪ It ain't all so big ♪
- So, what are Claire and I doing
holding a 2000 pound crate into our house
in the middle of winter?
Let us explain.
♪ A play day walk ♪
♪ A play day run ♪
- The first house that we lived at here in Seattle,
that's when we started making videos
and we just set up a microphone in the middle
of our office slash studio space
that we had in the house.
We had one room kind of dedicated to be our office room.
And we just started recording.
- Is that when we did the little mermaid video?
- Mm hm.
When we moved into our next house,
we kind of just did the same thing.
We picked a room, we made it an office,
we put a microphone in the middle of the room
and just started recording.
This is our studio, right Claire?
- Yes.
- [Dave] This is where we make all our songs.
- This is the globe.
These are our microphones.
I can't hear myself.
- [Dave] Can you hear yourself?
- Yeah, so great.
♪ Ever a surprise ♪
- Of course, when you do this,
you hear all sorts of noises and sounds from outside.
- Get out of here airplanes!
Go away!
Like the airplanes.
- Like the airplanes.
We, Claire did not like the airplanes.
You would like scream at the airplanes.
We could hear-
- You were the one who taught me to be mad at the airplanes.
- 'Cause I would get frustrated with the airplanes,
'cause they would like fly in the middle of our take
and ruin our take.
- [Claire] They're ruining our song.
- [Dave] Yeah.
- [Claire] I'm gonna break the airplanes,
if they come here one last time.
- But you could hear squirrels.
- [Claire] That's such a strange sound.
- [Dave] That was a strange sound.
Say-
- [Claire] Maybe it's like a chipmunk.
- Yeah, maybe.
And you could hear the neighbor's lawn mower.
It was just like- - Oh yeah.
- It was just like,
we could never find a time to record
unless we did it like at night when everyone was sleeping.
- I got to stay up so late,
that was like the only excuse for staying up late.
- It's true.
- Well, at least we got amazing videos out of that one.
- We sure did.
- [Claire] That was a good one.
I like it.
- Climb up on where you sit to record.
The next house that we lived in,
we got a little more sophisticated.
We had the idea to use our walk-in closet.
We like to record in the closet
'cause there's lots of clothes in here
that dampen the sound.
So that's our very professional studio.
♪ A wondrous place ♪
♪ For you and me ♪
- And then when we got to this house,
since we actually bought this house, this is our house,
we felt comfortable making some more modifications.
- With Chris' album was pretty fun too.
Clean clean, cleaning everywhere.
- For the last two years,
Claire and I have recorded all
of our professional music videos in-
- [Claire] They're not really professional.
- As professionals we could make them in this closet.
♪ Can you feel ♪
♪ The love tonight ♪
♪ Can you feel ♪
♪ The love tonight ♪
- The problem we're having is we can't get the foam
to stay on the walls very well.
They keep falling off.
It was still a problem because we had to take out the toys
every time we wanted to record.
And so mom would always not love
that the toys were all over the room
instead of being nicely tucked in the closet.
- She even told me once, "Well, next time you guys record,
will you remind dad to put away all the toys?"
You wouldn't do it after you took them all out.
- Yeah I kept forgetting to put back the toys
and Mom didn't love that, right?
And there's also a problem because it was so small.
Like we would get in there and be so tightly packed.
Like I couldn't make a noise.
In some of the recordings,
you can probably hear like me breathing
because we were so close together.
And the other thing that would happen is I would bring in
my little laptop and the fan
in the laptop would start spinning,
and that would like go into our recordings.
- But it worked better than our last ones.
- It was the best of the solutions
that we had come up with so far.
Let's have a quick moment of silence for our vocal studio.
(lighthearted music)
- Bye vocal studio.
- You were so good to us vocal studio.
Thank you for all the good times.
It's time to upgrade.
- Why are you trying to sound so dramatic?
- [Dave] Are you ready for this?
- Ah what about...
I'm ready.
Can I help you do this?
- [Dave] Yeah.
Millie, are you ready?
(Millie cooing)
Are you ready?
- It's so exciting.
- It is exciting.
Is it gonna be hard to build?
Is it gonna be like big pieces, little pieces?
I have no idea what to expect
when we open this big old box.
- Dad, I wanna undrill some, okay?
- Okay.
Can't wait to see what's inside.
- Me too.
(machine drilling)
- It's coming out.
(machine drilling)
That was scary.
(upbeat music)
Be prepared to pull off the top.
(machine drilling)
(upbeat music)
It's coming!
Can you see the inside?
- [Both] Three, two, one.
(all gasping)
- Yeah.
- Let's get a piece.
That's what was inside there?
- [Dave] Wanna see Mama?
- Yeah, how does it look?
- [Dave] Look what we got here.
- It came in pieces.
- I love it.
- Oh my gosh, how will you put this together?
Is there like lots of instructions?
That's like glitter, yeah. - We're gonna figure it out.
- Well yeah, if anyone can figure that out it's Dave Crosby.
Ikea builder extraordinaire.
- [Dave] This is a little more complicated than our Ikea.
- Be careful.
Dad, how can we help?
- It's gonna be too much for one person,
we're gonna hire some workers.
It's really, really heavy.
- There's three people here.
I can help, I'm not really helping
because you're so worried about it.
(upbeat music)
- So tomorrow we're gonna finish putting the scene together,
right guys?
High five.
All right, let's get to bed, love you guys.
(kisses)
- Love you.
- Love you Cars.
And a high five.
All right, so my neighbor happened
to have some workers in his house,
working on some stuff next door.
So I grabbed all his workers
and they're helping me get all the stuff inside.
(upbeat music)
There's the man.
- What's up guys?
How are you guys doing?
- [Dave] What's up Tig?
- Hey.
- Dude, thank you so much.
All right guys, this is my neighbor Tig,
he takes care of us.
He's the man who,
every time we go traveling and stuff,
he's always like taking our garbage around.
So he's the man, he's coming to help us today.
Let's go take a look
and I'll show you what we're up against.
(upbeat music)
June, do you like it?
Is it cool?
You like it?
- I see another window up here.
- [Dave] There is another window up there too.
- [Mom] You see it?
- The window down here.
(upbeat music)
- I'm doing it very slowly.
Is that okay?
- [Dave] Mm hm.
- I'm trying to be very careful.
- [Dave] Brill.
(machine drilling)
(upbeat music)
Oh, well, yeah.
- Out!
And in!
Out!
And in!
- As we're in the final stretch here,
I got my good friends and neighbors,
Colby and of course Tig's back.
So we want this thing in the corner of the room.
The problem is it weighs like 2000 pounds and you're like,
can not budge this thing.
We're gonna use our human strength here to push it
in the corner.
- [All] One, one, two, three go!
(men groaning)
- [Claire] June watch out!
- [Men] One, two, three go!
- Yeah!
- That's it.
Right here, I need you to plug it back there, okay?
- Okay.
- [Dave] Now, slide down right down the middle.
- [Claire] Okay.
I think I can do it.
(Dave and Claire laughing)
I'm gonna get it again.
- [Dave] Good thing we had you Claire.
We would not have been able to make that.
- Three.
- [All] Two, one.
- Here we go.
- [Dave] Wow.
- [All] Wow.
- Who wants to come in and see?
- Okay, you guys go in there and scream all you want.
(children screaming)
- Did you guys hear that?
- We could still hear you a little bit.
(June screaming)
- June.
- [Dave] June has so much volume.
I don't know how you could stay in there.
Go pat all the foam around, all around the edges.
- Pat, pat.
- [Dave] On it's top.
- Okay.
It's ready.
- You got it all?
Good look.
This is the moment we've finished the booth.
All you have to do is hook it to there.
♪ Tan, tan, tan, tan. ♪
- Done.
- And turn.
♪ Tan, tan, tan, tan. ♪
- What is that music?
- [Dave] Okay, Claire, it's done.
- This is where you're gonna send me
when Millie is crying at night?
- [Dave] Yeah.
- Whoa, you can't hear that fan.
- All right, we are in the booth for the first time
and the dead silence.
- Oh my gosh I love it.
Take the baby and let me take a nap in here.
Here.
Cool.
- Ooh that's moody.
- [Mom] Seems like there'd be a reptile living in here.
- Maybe there will be and it'll be me.
(slow jazz music)
- All right, Claire, can you hear me in there?
Let's get your volume to just a little bit.
You can hear me?
I can't hear you for some reason.
Let me see.
Oh, I see the problem.
All right, we should be rolling now, Claire.
Let's see, get your mic up a little bit.
Can you hear me in there?
- [Claire] I can hear you.
Can you hear me?
- We're live.
We're live, do you wanna get some cool lighting in there?
(slow jazz music)
Let's get rolling.
Today, we are finally gonna work on this eighties med ligan.
It has been forever since we've worked on this.
Which part do you wanna start working on first?
- [Claire] "Girls just wanna have fun."
- "Girls just wanna have fun."
All right, do you remember the words to that?
- [Claire] Kinda.
- Recording, let's get this started.
Claire, this is so cool.
We have a recording studio in our own house.
This is so cool.
Oh man, I'm so excited right now.
Okay.
Let's kick on, you ready?
Take number one. - Ready.
- Here we go.
(upbeat music)
♪ My mother say, "When you gonna live your life right?" ♪
♪ And girls, they wanna have fun ♪
- [Dave] All right Claire that's cool.
♪ Yeah girls just wanna have fun ♪
♪ Oh put a dance with somebody ♪
- We still love all the memories we had
in our makeshift recording studios.
Some of the things that Claire used to say,
just as I was like rolling the tape and recording and just,
she would say like the funniest stuff
and those are beautiful memories.
And I loved all those set ups,
but I'm so excited we finally have like a real,
real vocal booth.
(lighthearted music)
And to end this video,
I'm just gonna roll some of my favorite things
that Claire used to say when we were
just recording together,
when she was three, four years old.
(both chuckling)
That's it from us everyone, we'll see ya.
- See you on the next adventure, bye.
- Bye.
(lighthearted music)
- [Claire] Mom, can you hear it?
- [Mom] I can, it's beautiful.
- [Claire] Thanks.
Do you wanna see my super powers?
- [Dave] Yeah.
- [Claire] Okay, it might be a little noisy,
it might be a little fast.
- [Dave] Okay, that's okay.
(footsteps leaving)
(footsteps approaching)
Whoa, that was so fast.
That was crazy fast.
All right, you ready to sing again?
- [Claire] Yeah.
They, ever come again,
we're gonna set mores.
We're gonna set a lot of signs around the neighborhood
that say, "Don't, airplanes don't ever come
in our house when we're singing, ever again."
- [Dave] Yeah.
- Dad, when I hold my breath, Mom says, "What?"
Because she thinks I have a surprise to tell her.
- [Dave] 'Cause you go,
(Dad holding breath)
(Claire holding breath)
♪ True as it can be ♪
(Claire hicupping)
- [Dave] Those hiccups.
- Okay, I'll try to stop my hiccups
by holding my neck around.
♪ True as it can be ♪
(Claire hicupping)
- Oh oh.
♪ True as it can be ♪
♪ Because to know why there's a heart there ♪
- [Dave] Why?
♪ Because it will remind you ♪
♪ That someone loves singing with you ♪
♪ And loves you very much ♪
- [Dave] And who's that person?
- [Claire] I love you all the way up to the sky and rainbow.
- [Dave] Love you all the way up to the moon and back.
- [Claire] I love you all the way up to the sky and rainbow.
- [Dave] To the sky and rainbow?
That's pretty far.
- [Claire] Yeah, I know.
I want you to go, "Yeah, that's a good one."
I have to scratch off my itches, will I?
There's so many itches off me.
- [Dave] Okay.
- [Claire] I can't get it off.
- [Dave] Okay.
- [Claire] Count the rules,
if they keep coming while we sing,
I'm just set up a sign that says,
"No more airplanes while we're singing."
And remind the pilot to blast off away.
- [Dave] You are totally right, that's a great idea.