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Day Two Hundred Seventy Two (Year Three)

Richie Havens died today at age 72.  The man whose 2 hour set opened Woodstock in 1969 is no longer with us.

Today was one of those days where a little bit of listening went a long way toward being most of my musical activity for the day.  I fit in some time with the ipod wherever I could today, a lot of it focused on The Decemberists.  I've still got the Alk 3 playing in the car, although I'm almost ready for something different in that regard.  I'll give my review of their disc tomorrow, I promise.

It's funny, I spent the whole day thinking about scale patterns and other assorted things relating to guitar, and then I got home and hardly picked up the instrument at all.  I'm hoping tomorrow afternoon will be better when it comes to that.

Round 3 of the Battle Rounds aired on The Voice tonight.  We missed some of it, because the satellite was out for a while.  Snow this late in April is insane.  But still a great episode.  I'm finding that, while I don't agree with every decision the judges make, I'm in agreement with them on around 85%.  Who knows?  Maybe I do have an ear for the production side of things.

More tomorrow, and better, as always.

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