Practice and Second Guessing Begins

Thursday March 22

Spring sickness continues. For part of the day I left like ripping my face off and stomping on it. Took enough drugs to start practicing with OD for the May 12 gig. Now that sounds like the old me.


Friday March 23

Forgot the benefits of collaboration and it only took one practice to do it. I don't recognize the potential defects or problems with certain material when I play them myself. Sometimes all it takes is a look from Joe, Chris or D and I get a sense there is something in the material that isn't good, doesn't ring true or won't be interesting to an audience.

Most of the songs we will do with the GaH project will play but there is one in particular that deserves scrutiny and maybe replacement.

We live in a time and a place that says we should never second guess ourselves. I think that's stupid. When something is questionable, and that becomes obvious just by playing it once or twice with a trusted friend...there's nothing wrong with dumping it and replacing it with something (hopefully) better.