So when I was working for my fellow musicians, often I was in a position to hear a rough take of some song they were wanting to work on.

And every single one of us does the exact same thing at this moment. We make this list of disclaimers like a pharmaceutical ad.

That's not the right guitar amp... and I really need new strings... and the drummer's playing his cousin's kit in this and we don't... and it doesn't... and we didn't have... and so on and so on.

So I learned to preempt this. Once they got about three words into it, I would say, "hush! and just press play."

And if they wanted to know why I was being so bossy, I would explain it's not even just that I don't want to hear that same story again. It's that we need to stop doing this. We need to just own our shit. And maybe even sometimes pretend it's the best thing ever.

The whole reason they were working with me was to make it better in the first place. So we *will* work through all those details. I just want to hear the song.