I wasn’t sure how much time I’d have to record today, so I started out doing a short tape, a C-30, from Larry Boyd.

Side 1 was five tracks from Mission of Burma — the original, not the reconstituted band. Two of them were live, three of them were demos that Larry had snagged somewhere. (They did eventually wind up on a compilation album, after Mission of Burma broke up.)

Side Two is Disarray, captioned “Last Recordings ’86.” Four tracks that I didn’t already have (though two of the four have live versions on the 15th anniversary tape).

So I have seven songs, altogether, that Disarray never put on any sort of album. I’m pretty sure this is the last of them — I only have one more of Larry’s tapes left to go, and I didn’t see any Disarray on there.

I don’t find myself terribly enthused about Mission of Burma; I actually like the Disarray tracks better.

And I did get started on another tape — a C-90 from Larry Boyd that he labeled “A Trio of Trio’s.” It’s one-third Mission of Burma, one-third Husker Du, and one-third the Minutemen. However, I didn’t get it finished. And it’s not in order; it was wound to the end of Side 1, so I recorded Side 2 first, then Side 1.

Side 2 got edited; Side 1 will get done later, probably tomorrow. I’ve got five tracks from Husker Du, four off their album Zen Arcade and one single that was never on an album. Seventeen (!) tracks by the Minutemen come from four different albums.

Both of these tapes, like most of Larry’s, are good quality. It took me two tries to do the short one, though; it is possible to crash the new version of Audacity. I had it all recorded, but it failed to save properly and I had to start over. The second time, no problem.

When the second of today’s tapes is done I’ll have six more tapes of music left to go — one more from Larry Boyd, and five from someone else, but I’m not sure who. Pretty sure they’re all from the same person.

And then there are a dozen or so tapes of stuff other than music.