After i finished my marathon of contact mics, I really got the itch to play some more music. Lately I had only been playing once or twice a month with phil estes, because we had both been so busy our schedules only lined up occasionally. So I took the plunge and placed an ad on craigslist, and much to my delight i have had a pretty full schedule of music this week. The responses have run the gamut, from generic mushy hippie bar music(which i think indicated that the guy hadn’t read my post at all, but i thought he was looking to try something new so i tried to do it but couldn’t make it through more than an hour and a half of that music), then i played with a really promising guitarist and keyboard player, who are looking to write and play a mixture of pop indie keyboard rock mixed with other stuff, and then tonight I am going to try out for a pretty straight ahead progressive rock band. All of these situation have been interesting, but I still think i am going to work on expanding my solo performance abilities and compose solo compositions on the drums and other instruments i constructed. I kind of see the drums as a big portable, variable,sculptural arrangement, since i can change the setup of the pieces in the kit to suit the situation i am in.