I've taken to keeping my bands songlist on a database which includes my opinion as to how well we know it. At the reharsal, if there is a disagreement about the song's condition, we play it until it gets better. Unless we're putting sets together for a gig, we work on the ones that need to get better, rotating whose choice for the next song, until we get tired of the regimen and we start fooling around with new songs. If we like them I add them to the bottom of the list and let them work their way up.

I'm curious about you all with 600 mile rides to rehearsal. I do 110 miles round trip, which is as much as I can handle on a Monday Night!