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Found It!

I found the score! My keyboard...the children forgot about it, it's been put away a looong time but this eve I will dust it off and set UP, sons and daughters! Otherwise I've been Paul Bunyon today, a-choppin and a-pruning. Lotsa fodder for the firepit. Ain't it funny...last night I had decided that this eve I was going to re-score the bass, no matter how long or time 'n energy costly an endeavor. Woo-hoo!

Donna

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Finished The Funk.

Have learned the independence beat. Exciting, ain't used to laying off the kick drum and leading w/ left hand. Stage 4 I broke down into 3 sections. You'd never know it's the same person drumming when first begun a few days back. I am playing quiet enough to hear the metronome. Studio This weekend just Scott and I, Jeff F if he can make it. Worked on Storm intro, abotu 80% of a whole other guitar line came back to memory. Broke everything down into tiny stages and looped pr

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Anotha Music Pal

Well, wwll, I found the old Lynn-ster, running George Benson's former recording studio in Maui! Lynn Peterson is the guy who WAIT! This is the most important part: Remember Finn giving vocal excersizes in that thread, saying you should tape your main vocal, then add 3rds (vocally), like sixteen times? Lynn kind of did this! In some of his songs I heard recordings of! These drummers! You just don't know what you're going to get. They can be a lot of trouble - but u

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Update/ Pic Of Me '85 / Music Pals

Cool! Got this photo today from Arlo Hennings (who is Shawn Phillips' manager 16 years now!!). Arlo self-described poet had a project called Left As Is (writer/guitarist). Double album (I didn't appear on), but played some gigs (roto toms/cymbals standing up and vocals). Cool album. One fav was the long song at the end where Arlo recited his poetry (low deep voice) to the electronic/wave music, called Victims of the Glitch. During the out, he kept repeating "victims of the gli

Donna

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A Youtube Mother's Day Present

-originally posted May-something or other '09 doh Mother's Day Go down to the end for the newest youtube if ya don't wanto read all this first OK, this Mother's Day is so far v. nice...here's a secret tho that every Mother's Day the mom usually has extra mom's duties. Normally I have some crisis, children sick and so on. An extra edge to get thyself in M's Day finery w/ all the drudge going on. So some yelling in the morn! (When I must yell, or call to the children, I u

Donna

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*it's Really Over*

-while editing my blog, some entries got posted out of order so I'm re-posting this in the order it should be We settled via mediation yesterday, 6 days before trial. I am stunned. Exhausted. Am now permanently a homeowner and single custodial parent. Cannot express graditude enough. May be laying low for awhile here, don't worry if I'm not around or am silent. This was a merciful outcome, a just outcome. Gratefully, Donna... Dahl (my name now legal) + (((Seven Dwa

Donna

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It's Over

We settled via mediation yesterday, 6 days before trial. I am stunned. Exhausted. Am now permanently a homeowner and single custodial parent. Cannot express graditude enough. May be laying low for awhile here, don't worry if I'm not around or am silent. This was a merciful outcome, a just outcome. Gratefully, Donna... Dahl (my name now legal) + (((Seven Dwarves))) PS: edit

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The Mp3's Online!

MP3 of the scratch recording we made in April 2009...if the link works! This is mix #2 After you click the link, a) find "Artist/Band page of this user:" (left side) click on my name immediately below That should put you there; the link to the page proper is broken. This is a big darn deal for me!!! Everyone on here has helped, thank you big time ~ Donna Dahl - Out To Storm (Edit) Hmm, maybe this is another way in....Direct Link??

Donna

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Studio!

Scott's studio I took to immediately. It's a room within a room...it felt right in there.Todd's electronic kit was among the (very nice) gear. I have a hunch I will be playing that kit again. Dan of course was there. We began w/ me playing the Seagull to the click (after we set the tempo). Then we turned off the lights when I did vocals, til I got comfortable. Jeff F. I'd asked to be there, I thought a video document of things would be nice. He did the O'Gara's footage. Soon

Donna

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Zooom! (my New Life)

Wow... The day Kayla was received I began a(nother) new job. It's a wholesome enviornment, physical work but not overly taxing. In a word, perfect. I really like it! The miracle is to have obtained an understanding place. The litigation duties alone, when it's hot (cause things ebb and tide) have made it impossible to seek a regular situation. Plus the children (when a virus goes thru six younguns...thenthe last ones who got it pass it again to the 1st, oy)... Throw displaced

Donna

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Received

Kayla is 19; I've known her a couple years now. She is Dylan's girlfriend and we've been there for each other through some rough times. Also for joys. Today was one of the greatest. Kayla was received into the Catholic Church this Maundy Thursday, and I was her sponsor. I'd never before witnessed the Old Latin Rite reception, but I couldn't help thinking back to my own (Novus Ordo Rite) 15 years previous. The same Padre who I took "convert" classes from, had as first confessor a

Donna

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Project With Dan (the 8-parter Song)

First Meeting So we met at The Black Sheep , sitting in the car, for Dan to hear via cassette my little song. There is a thread about this song on the Recording Studio Forum; specifically how a novice should go about recording 8 parts on an analogue 4-track. That was great fun, sometimes very difficult, but I learned a lot. And yes, I did eventually score all three guitar parts. I think it's actually an eleven-parter, 3 vocals and 8 instrument lines. Mike Loonan had done

Donna

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185 (3 Pics)

Sometimes good news sinks in more than once and over time. Last week my rosy cheeked, good humored 18yr old boy asked, "Hey Ma, guess how much I weigh?" When I found out the answer >BAM< I really took it in.... The following pictures of this beloved firstborn, Dylan, were taken on 7/7/07. He was intubated, on paralytic drugs, fighting for his life in the ICU at Children's Hospital, St. Paul. Dylan "lost" 8 days of his young life during this time, at age 17.

Donna

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Mischke Fired

Very odd postscript: the day after the CD release bash at O'Gara's, Tommy was fired by am 1500 KSTP. No-compete clause means no work in radio locally for some time - Merry Christmas! The local Mischke cult has been up in arms, yet an Atlantic Monthly writer is also publicly mourning. Long time advertisers have pulled their accounts from KSTP am. "Good ol' St. Paul" as Mischke used to daily say - but it's true. I saw Tommy last week, after he'd run to RF Moeller Jewler to "drop of

Donna

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O'gara's Victory

Edit Dec 8 - Hiding Time - end of 3rd verse on Someone you tubed us ~ _______________________________ Though I've heard no tape yet (which will for me decide the truth of the gig) victorious is the word I use, and a word I don't often use. It seemed that kind of night, in multiple ways, for many people, for reasons not musical as well as for the music made. It's a night of stories to tell one's grandchildren. LENGTHIEST entry ever...and likely to remain so. Mischke beg

Donna

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Last Rehearsal, O'gara's / 5th Member

I have never kept track or written about rehearsals leading up to a gig, except for this one. I don't expect to in the future. __________ Last rehearsal was today at O'Gara's mixed in w/ sound check (which was rather complicated or extensive). The drum riser on O'Gara's stage will remain unused - Mischke built a wall using huge pallets to go in front of it. It's fun how he (and Jared!) are doing the stage. In the 1st case, Tommy has put wooden doors and boards round his keyboard.

Donna

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John Denver

What a nice reality check. The memorial special I saw this eve had John Denver singing a song called This Old Guitar. He prefaced by saying his guitar has been his closest companion; that as great as it'd been playing w/ an orchestra backing him or "w/ a really hot band"...what he loved esp. was singing while playing that guitar. The lyric spoke of how that guitar "taught me to sing" - just as I'm finding out first hand that the best way for me to sing a song as in learning it

Donna

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Full Sound

We were 4-piece tonight, first time. No guitars. Rather piano and Jared's "not B3" organ (he called it an A-something or other, "it's just like a B3"). The B3 sat in a different corner of the studio, being a stand for the large mixer. There were two other pianos in the room, one a baby grand I think. And Bill Evans' drummer's kit. (Lazz, it was Marty Morell's I finally found out). The drums were so very bright (and so very loud). I put dish towels over them. At Tommy's, I covered th

Donna

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3rd, 4th, 5th Rehearsals

This is a lengthy freak out! Can't help it, music is the only thing that is really mine, as in "mine alone". It's honeymoon time for me. Things are heating up yet settling in. Communication and rehearsals to me are like having a blast back on the playground (in my case going to the river, cruising on the rope swing). Everybody I think plays better than ever. Better than when we were in our twenties, or thirties. The best though isn't chops...it's like a whole-person-rounded kind of

Donna

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Dylan Update July 20-27, 2007 (not 2008)

Bizarre! How'd this entry get here? It used to be, and does belong, on page 2 or 3... __________________________________________________________________________ I am exhausted. But did play drums for an hour, and guitar for an hour, this week. ..................................................................................... Dear All, Thanks for following Dylan's illness. It means a lot to him. He's received mail from Fargo [North Dakota in the US] to England!

Donna

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2nd Rehearsal [+ 7 Months]

Though toned down in mood [er, me that is], I felt deeper satisfaction playing the 2nd time w/ Loonan and Mischke. Somehow this doesn't seem possible; however, taking any and all gifts, thank 'ee. (Edit to add...DOH! A big part due to Mike playing bass this rehearsal. And I could barely hear him! Thankfully, Tommy is percussive to no end. We'll have to switch those monitors next time. Don't say switch the cords - this is a situation like when we were 16...the cords cannot be switched, we'd

Donna

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1st Rehearsal With Loonan And Mischke

It doesn't get better than this... Back when we recorded Mischke's A Better Man, there was fire (I thought) in the room, us three; as I recall it was mainly Tommy (Mischke) and me siinging and Mike producing/engineering. This week when we rehearsed Tommy was playing keys, Mike guitar and me drums, all of us singing. I'd forgotten - yet not forgotten - the curious musical magic of Tommy. He's his own island; some people are like that, they're theatrical FOR REAL. And so, one i

Donna

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