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Day Two Hundred Four

Interesting day today. Bought a couple of new records, and uncovered another long hidden gem of hard rock goodness.

First, the records.

1) Showroom Of Compassion - Cake
2) Tell Me - Jessica Lea Mayfield

Haven't gotten all the way through either of them yet, although I listened to the first two tracks of the Cake record on the way home from work. They're pretty cool. This is the first record of theirs that I've owned, although I've heard some of their music in the past, and I've got to say, I dig it. I'll be picking up more of their stuff as time goes along. Also, I heard the single ("Sick Of You") on the radio the other day, and my oh my, what a groovy tune that is!

As for the Jessica Lea Mayfield, I found her on NPR.org while trying to find information on something else for a customer, read their blurb in one of the few quiet moments I had at work today, and found myself intrigued. Later on, I checked to see if we had it (we did), listened to the clips we had in the system at work, and really enjoyed what I heard. It would be unfair to fully comment based solely on the 30 second clips, but suffice it to say that I'm pretty excited to have an hour to devote to listening to the whole record in the next couple of days.

And now that I've discussed everyone else's records, time for a brief update on what I got done today. I kept picking away at the chord progressions from yesterday, but didn't get very far along that particular line. Somewhere in there I flubbed a fingering, which gave me a dark sounding minor flat 5 chord that we had tried to use in something years ago. It didn't take long to go from that back to the circular, 3 chord progression we had used in that earlier song. The rest of that tune never made it off the studio floor, never even got recorded in fact, but now that I stumbled across that progression again, I find that it still fits the tenor of what the band would use. I think, given the intervening years, that I'll be able to find something a little easier to write over. It's too catchy of a progression (and too odd sounding) to not make use of in some way. It's definitely going to be recycled.

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