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Day Ninety Four (Year Two)

I got some recording done tonight!  It didn't take me all that long, either.  This, in reality, isn't too surprising, considering all I wanted to lay down was the electric parts in the chorus, but hey, progress is progress, right?  J. might be annoyed that I did both the clean electric of the intro and the dirty electric of the choruses on the same track, but the way I see it, that just saves me from having to burn multiple CDs until I can afford my interface.  Even if he is annoyed, I thought the tracks came off well on first listen, with the second chorus having enough feedback at the end of it to usher in the switch to the solo.  We'll see how I feel about it tomorrow night before I go sending it off, but even if I listen back and cringe, it's not as if it would take me all that long to crank out another take.

Stopped at Half Price Books today, looking for non-music related stuff.  Got some of that, but also walked out with a Tom Waits bio (Low Side Of The Road), and three CDs:

1) Cold Roses - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
2) Irresistible Bliss - Soul Coughing
3) Asylum Years - Tom Waits

Also, the book that I put back was a book on the songwriting of Bruce Springsteen that looked really cool, but at that point, I had already spent more than I was planning on, and didn't want to go totally off the deep end.

So, in total, do I feel like I got as much done as I could have over the two days I was off?  In all honesty, no.  Was it a start?  A step along the path?  Definitely.  Will I do better next week, when I've got Monday & Tuesday off again?  You bet I will.

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