NEGC Meeting Minutes April 24th, 2005

Attendees: Performers : Victor, Dev, David, Meli, Martin, Mary Beth & Glenn

We began the meeting without Dev working on a specific cirulation pattern: a "normal" once-around, then the person began, now passes a note to each person in turn, with them passing a note back. When the final person has passed their note back, the person to the right of the one who began, begins the next cycle (with a "once around", then ping-pong). Dev arrived and we did it again with him.

Then the rest of the meeting focused on repertoire for the upcoming gig at MIT Earthday on April 28th. We will not play Flying Home due to Terry not being available.

We plugged into our battery-powered amps and worked on:

• Third Relation
• Growing Circle - to achieve a better balance while Terry is gone, David is to learn the lead and Martin (or was it MB?) is to learn the bass, but not for the Earthday gig
• Eye of the Needle - agreement to play the outro using all downstrokes, but being aware of the "feel" and not overplaying
• Calliope
  
• The Moving Force
  
• Bicycling to Afghanistan
• Hommage
• Invention #10 - after splitting up into two groups to do some review work
• Larks Thrak
• Israel
• Hope - spending extra time working on the "fast circulation" section
  
• Asturias - running through a few times trying to get the feel right for when the final twinkly should come in, with various pieces of advice offered

We will also likely play Aspiration at the gig, and possibly embroidery.

A full 3 hours of solid work.


DBK