On Saturday I picked up my daughter from her mother’s place then we went to the McDonald’s at Bamburgh Plaza for a while. We took the Warden bus to the subway and then the train to Main Station where we waited for Tom Smarda and Mike Martin. Mike came but Tom was late and so we just went ahead to the rehearsal space. Mike and I started practicing my songs for our upcoming gig at the El Mocambo and Tom arrived a little later. Mike and I argued over my “criticisms” of his manner of drumming. For certain parts of some songs I wanted the drums to stop momentarily but he thought there should always be a beat. He argued that a band is a democratic collective but I said not if there’s only one songwriter in the band. I assured him that if he were to write a song for Christian and the Lions I would follow his instructions on how to play and sing it. After our time was up my daughter and I went home.
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