Rehearsal

Note to self: when putting your guitar on, don't whack yourself in the face with it. Emulating the "look" of the kid on the cover of War is dumb.

Don't exactly remember how or why I did that, toward the start of rehearsal; perhaps I was about to whack the mike stand with the guitar and pulled it back a little too hastily. In any case, ow, split lip. But rehearsal (which was just starting) carried on fine, once I got the bleeding stopped.

Rehearsed in a rather large, nicely appointed room at JamSpot tonight. Expensive room, it was all that was available, but it worked nicely. There was a floor monitor right by my mike ... no need, nor even a temptation, to oversing to be heard over the instruments. So my voice is fine.

Eric and Ryan are learning the material nicely and adding good things to it. A couple of these songs are going to kick ass when we've got more time and practice under our belts. Next step, I think, is to see if Doug will come in and do some drums.

Won't listen to the rehearsal CD until tomorrow at the earliest. I know there were plenty of flubs, many of them mine ... but let's leave this as a memory of a really strong rehearsal for now. Time enough to critique tomorrow.