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Day Two Hundred Ninety Six

So, tonight's post was supposed to be all about me getting home from work and locking myself in a room with a guitar, so as to make progress on the record. Even when I went out to dinner with R. after work, that was still the plan. During dinner, however, we got to talking music, as we always do, and an interesting topic came to the surface: Who are the big artists/critical darlings that we don't own anything by, but feel like we should. Somehow, I was expecting our lists to be different, but in the end, they were eerily the same. The list went something like this...

1) The Grateful Dead
2) David Bowie
3) John Prine
4) John Hiatt (I have one of his records)
5) Tom Waits (R.'s suggestion... I have finally started to collect his stuff)

and

6) Janis Joplin

I admitted to missing out on most of R.E.M. (the early stuff, in particular), and Frank Zappa. It was R.'s big admission that had me falling out of my chair and clutching my chest: Clapton. She clarified this by amending it to his days post-Cream... which is most of it, and includes Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs!

So, yeah, tonight was going to be all about me working on that record, but it seems that will have to wait for tomorrow, when it will likely be accompanied by more info regarding what I hope will be the first day of work on the hard rock stuff in 4 years. I'm guessing that most of tomorrow will be about getting the video part of this process squared away, and maybe swapping a few files, if only to see how well this process will work for the two of us. We shall see.

I'm going to end the writing for the day where my musical experiences started, with a quote from Bono: "The best musicians are either running toward God, or running away from God."

My response wondered what that meant for those of us who think that music is the closest we've ever come to that.

Also, if those out there who stumble upon this from time to time want to leave their own list of bands they are missing, feel free to do so below.

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