I did it again, didn’t I?

  WEDNESDAY 9/5/18 4:35PM- I think I did it again-- I made a decision too hastily… The Epiphone plays more easily than the Crafter, but that’s partially because of the extra light gauge strings… I have to either develop a much much lighter touch or use a slightly heavier gauge of guitar string, heavier than .009-.047... I hope I can find such a set...

       Looks  like Bruce can’t make it to band practice; but we’re going to go ahead and practice anyway-I dunno why...but if I’m going to waste an evening of my time, playing music is just about the best way to do that... I am trying not to let my opinion of the Combustibles bother me...or more specifically, the idea that I am alone in feeling the way I do, that the band pretty much sucks...

   Angela  is “interested“ in seeing Michelle and me at Seibel’s... I think I’d like to see her there; there is the possibility that Rick will be joining us, but I haven’t heard anything lately…

11PM- The Combustibles rehearsal went as badly as I thought it might… Either Barry doesn’t like to be told what to do (by me) or he likes to fuck with me…I find  it hard to believe he hasn’t learned how to sing certain phrases properly… we’ve been doing SURRENDER by cheap trick for what feels like a few years now  and he still can’t sing a certain phrase correctly...maybe he doesn’t care or  he thinks no one in the audience will notice- that strikes me as being  ridiculously  condescending…I  wouldn’t bet that no one would notice the mistakes we make- and we make so many…

     On the other hand, I just heard from my friend Oz...sad to say, I may be his new guitar player… his current guitar player, a good friend of mine, has been diagnosed with stage four liver cancer; As  far as I can tell this is really bad news...