October 15

Post 976, Day 288 of 2013
- and 1018 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I try to have to approach making music simply.

Make it.

Find some musicians with a cooperative attitude, start playing, see what happens. 

And what happens, like life itself, runs the gamut, and that means variable quality, quantity, and the pleasure I get from playing.

If people have a reasonable amount of control over their instruments, are open to other players' ideas, are relaxed in their attitude (and expectations), and listen, the results can be very good, and everybody has a good time.

Let one person try to control things with a rigid idea about the right way to play a song, and the odds it will be enjoyable are reduced - far from impossible, just more unlikely.

A lack of adventure spoils so many things.

At an open mic tonight, we had a drummer who consistently imposed his will on the other musicians he was playing with - changing rhythm and tempo in the middle of songs, losing the group. 

The drummer was imposing his idea of how things should go. My take: he showed a lack of support in an ensemble situation. I feel support should be the primary role of the rhythm section in this kind of ensemble playing, so to me it seemed musically unsuccessful, and rude to the other performers, who weren't necessarily trying to be rhythmically progressive.

The drummer was being adventurous, for certain, but because he stopped functioning in the ensemble context he was in, for whatever reason, he spoiled a few otherwise good jams. 

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 Food and Diet Section

2013 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         208.2 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     207.4 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      + 0.8 lbs

Diet Comment

Late-night high-calorie eating.

Food Log 

Breakfast

A cacao-kale-hemp-chia protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kale, a large egg, raw organic cacao powder, hemp seeds, chia gel, whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, psyllium and stevia-inulin blend).

Lunch

Wild-caught salmon and black bean salad on Spring Mix and cole slaw blend.

Dinner

Grass-fed burger and cole slaw.

Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  24 oz.   Water: 130+ oz.

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