finally! or A Patience Test

               TUESDAY 9/25/18 7:26PM--Last night at an open mic, I sang the best lead vocal of my Life...I sang the third verse of  Dylan's I SHALL BE RELEASED...hopefully I'll sing as well on Thursday as I did last night; I sounded the way I do when I sing alone in my car...by which I mean free, no inhibitions...it was a revelation...I'm glad there were witnesses...I don't think there are any videos...there might be pictures, I have no idea...
        FRIDAY 9/28/18 2:18PM--I did a bunch of lead singing last night...I couldn't really hear the vocals  very well, but to some degree that was my fault...there is a snippet of a video in which one can hear three part harmonies on FLIP FLOP & FLY, that sounds good to me...I was considering trading the gizmo for store credit so I could buy a couple more pedals; then I realised I was dissatisfied because I don't have the patience needed to spend however much time it would take to tweak the gizmo to my satisfaction...maybe I can do that on Monday...and not be so impatient...thinking off the top of my head, I wanna start using the gizmo in (mostly) manual mode...I would only use Memory Mode for the more "unusual" patches--OCTAVE, COMPRESSION, HARMONIES...some of the patches are "song specific" and in a sense "band specific" as well...I only use them when I'm gigging with Combustibles...
            And now, naturally, I'm excited about working in the "gizmo Lab"--maybe I can do that tomorrow morning while the roomie is out doing stuff...not too early, but still...and rather than notate the numerical value of each and every parameter for each of the FOUR pedals, I'll just play it by ear--after all, every room sounds different...so, tomorrow morning for instance, I'll set it for the kitchen...maybe I can test it out at the IPO on Tuesday...both the Monday open mics are acoustic...the only two stompboxes that feel absolutely essential to me are the distortion and the chorus...but maybe I could/would use more than just those two sounds if I was playing electric guitar somewhere...is it that much more of a hassle than using the Manchester Bag? Slightly, but not by much...
         SATURDAY--starting to think about tomorrow's gig w/Michelle...I'm probably just gonna take Epi and hope for the best...I think the weather is gonna be super nice...I plan to wear shorts...
           On the other hand, I AM a better player when I use electric guitar and when HE did the gig with Michelle, Rick used his electric gear...innaresting...