not every idea is a good one

        MONDAY 5/11/2020 6:21 PM--wanted to make some additions to LAVENDER DAWN, the idea didn't sound in reality as good as it did in my head...triple acoustic guitar harmonies...oh well, I gave it a shot...
   It may not be true, but I feel as though I can't work in the 1180 Lab while the guys are working on the deck...THE MAIL has a lead vocal, but I haven't started on that one yet...
TUESDAY 5/12/2020 10:53 AM--last week I dropped out of the Dan Mack open mic...he had one last night...I watched it, which is to say I skimmed thru it...I'm thinking about signing up for it next Monday...I've got one song I could do, and that's MR.QUARANTINE MAN...I imagine I'll need to do more than one, but there's always LMYR...I dunno what I could do besides those two, but I've got time to decide...and I bought a condenser mic from Best Buy...I THINK I'll have it by next Monday...
5:09 PM--learn sumthin' new everyday...I just learned how to add certain effects to specific tracks on the BR-1180 as opposed to those effects being on all the tracks..I started working on LAVENDER DAWN...I put a buncha chorus on the acoustic and I put some electric piano on it, but I'm not sure that it's absolutely essential...I currently got three tracks not being used...I'm thinking two (?) tracks for flutes and one for lead guitar...
  The flutes will be easy once I transpose the keyboard-I keep forgetting I can do that...I think it will be easy to play in the key of C instead of D...
 WEDNESDAY 5/13/2020 11:20 AM--my planned contact with Litz, IF it happens at all, will be after my nap, or more likely tomorrow...I really don't wanna lose another electric 12-string...unless I already have...sent a CD to Lou...after Lunch, I'm gonna try for a nap...
6:15 PM--I'm still making mistakes in the 1180 Lab, but I'm getting better at fixing them...did some real good punch-ins on DAWN today...and I thought "just because I HAVE 8 tracks doesn't mean I need to use them all..."
7:16 PM--I think the recording aspect of LAVENDER DAWN is done, unless I put in some more lead guitar...I'll work on it tomorrow, I just dunno when...I have to keep in mind that once a recording is mixed and mastered, ya can't change it...again, it's all account of my lack of patience...I really need to NOT hurry when I'm mixing, etc. 
8:46 PM-gotta start thinking about what I’m gonna work on next... I’ve been thinking about doing THE MAIL, but now I’m not so sure about that...
THURSDAY 5/14/2020 9AM--it belatedly occcurred to me that I've never recorded that instrumental I wrote way WAY back in the mid/late 80s or early 90s...I was in the Deserters/Substitute at the time...I sat down at the green (?) piano in the basement of Susan Judge's parent's house and came up with an instrumental piece that, even after more than THIRTY-FIVE years, doesn't yet have a title...gonna wait until the guys are one before I go to the Lab...they might be able to hear whatever is coming out of the speakers, and I don't want them to...I get self conscious and nervous enough as it is...