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Day Three Hundred Twenty Five

Texted B. today regarding the conversation between she, J., and myself that is currently scheduled for tomorrow night sometime. Just wanted to let her know that all was proceeding as planned, and to tell her that J. liked her vocals on a tune that he and I had written 10 years ago. She and I had thrown her part in there, on the choruses, back when we were writing the first time. We considered using the song back then, but would've needed J.'s approval. Now that he's producing us, I think that'll be easy to get. My theory also happens to be that we ought to re-cut the entire vocal with her singing the lead, and then have her harmonize with herself for the record. We've wanted to try that on the hard rock stuff for a long time now, so I figure, why not there?

The other band related thing that happened today also came out of my text conversation with B. Apparently she was going through stuff in her condo today, and stumbled upon a box of old cassettes. Recordings of songs she had written years ago. Including one she and I had talked about yesterday afternoon that she said she might want to try resusitating for the band. So. We shall see what happens with all of that.

Shows like last night always make me want to do nothing but play guitar. I think a large portion of my day tomorrow will be spent doing just that. And reading those books I picked up the other day. Between that stuff, Skypeing with B., and the conversation in the evening with J., it seems like a lot will be happening tomorrow. Should be fun.

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