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Day Two Hundred Seventy (Year Three)

So, today was Record Store Day 2013.  First time I've ever been not working on said holiday, and the Mrs. and I decided to go into Storm Lake to this pizza joint that also happens to double as a record store.  I'm not sure the guy even knew today was record store day.  He seemed more interested in hocking pizzas than LP's (to me anyway), but I found a couple things and learned something very interesting along the way.

The finds were as such:

1) Led Zeppelin IV (Zoso) on LP, in near perfect condition, for $15!  Apparently he has "extra copies lying around."  I'm not assuming that this is a release from '71 or anything, but hey, still a really sweet addition to my growing vinyl collection.

2) Who's Next on LP.  Apparently it was a day for records from '71.  It's such a great album, with such a fascinating backstory, and somehow I didn't own it in any form.  While I'd love to pick up a CD copy of it sometime (hopefully the deluxe edition), it seems fitting somehow to have it on vinyl first.

Now, on to the playing part of my day.

Sometimes I forget that I teach on acoustic.  It dawned on me last night that, while I write and teach away from the electric, the electric still gets more of the attention on a daily basis.  This realization is nothing new.  I've made mention of it a few times over the last couple of years.  Anyway, I went looking for a particular resource for electric stuff, and instead stumbled on some cool acoustic things.  So I played some acoustic today instead.

And in so doing, I might have stumbled onto the start of another chord progression.  Either way, it was something that had to be written down before we could leave the house.  So there's that.  A pretty decent day, if you ask me.  I just wish I had gotten in a bit more playing this afternoon.  No worries, there's always tomorrow for that.

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