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             SUNDAY 12/9/18 2:11AM--got home from KH 11 minutes ago...it  took an hour (maybe less) to get home...it took about an hour and 10 minutes to get there...I can't EVEN believe I got there at 7PM'''I think I was the 2nd one there after Cory...we finished at just past 12:30AM...I hung around, but apparently as long as it felt...I'm $10 dollars richer, I'm OK with that...I trust Ray when he says money is tight...I woulda felt like a bastard asking for more...there were 6 of us in the "band"...unlike shows in the past, we actually took a break...
                   We were a 10.0 easily...after I warmed up, I played well...from what I could hear, the harmonies were very good...I think Johnny and I mostly stayed out of each other's way...I spent most of my time sitting on a bench, although I did stand up occasionally...Neither Carolyn nor Ren attended tonight's gig...Someone hollered out "Led Zeppelin" and *I* foolishly played the intro to--STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN...so we played it...I would give it an 8.0 on a scale of 10...but (hopefully) I'll never ever noodle that one again...
            11:05AM--most of the guitar solo in SHAKE IT UP is fairly easy...as for the rest of it, I don't care all that much, Barry might not care all that much either...and yeah, a rehearsal with the Combustibles is a MAJOR comedown after the Saturday *I* had...
        5:36PM--I don't have the words to describe how horrible band rehearsal was...Barry decided NOT to try to learn SHAKE IT UP...I'd say that was the only good thing to happen at practice...Some of my songwriting friends may have a method, *I* do not...But I DO wanna write a song which could be about my unhappiness with my relationship with a woman but it's really about my unhappiness with the band...that's not new, but I'm gonna try it anyway...
7PM--and I 'm doing homework for the GYY open mic...I'm working on COMES A TIME, in part because Jodie said she liked that one...I wanna play an original tune, but I dunno which one...which leaves one more song to do, usually...maybe I'll try DRAGGIN'
9PM--I'm roughly halfway thru that new song I said I wanted to write...I'm taking a break from it, hoping I can pick up where I left off tomorrow...I think all I need is one more verse...
10:53PM--be it good or bad, it's finished; well, the lyrics are finished...for Music I'm kinda thinking a slow rocker, if there can be such a thing......I tried not to be so rigid with certain concepts--like syllable accentuation...and exact rhymes...