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we had a great show last night. the new line-up is as follows: Scotty Meinke on the cello. he was a guy who down the hall from me last year. i new him vaguely from various places before-- class, mutual friends, etc. he'd been to one of our shows before, one of the kay shows, the one we played with robert stillman's horses and flying.

(he liked us and mentioned a couple of times that if we ever needed someone to paly cello, he'd be into it. but last spring i was still in the mind set where i didn't want to put anything solid together, instead wanting a more laid back group that hardly ever practiced. ie, stupid.)

but scotty's great-- he wrote most of his own parts, and he's really into it, which is great.

Russ plays the violin. he's a freshman, i actually just met him a few weeks ago. he lives on a friend's floor, so when she saw him move in with a ton of instruments, she introduced us. he's pretty good-- a quick learner, able to pick up parts and make them his own relatively quickly.

best of all, both can do auxillary percussion parts. which is more than i can say for some folks i've worked with in the past. folks, meet a can with rice in it. now shake it. thank you.

so basically it was the most fulfilling shows in a long time. i'm hoping it'll be the first of many.

-cd

PS i'm putting all my REM albums on my computer. finally. i mean what took me so long.