This why the human race is wonderful. Not Beethoven. Not galleries full of art. Not politics, not religion, not even sport (because there's always a loser). This. Rock and freakin' roll. This. Ecstatic communion. The wild wave of love that rises from the beating heart of the crowd. This is what we're best at. This. This is worth fighting for, worth saving. Fuck the politicians. they never got it. Never had a clue. It's not about control, it's about losing it - losing it righteously, in love. Letting go. Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul ...
Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
I think I recognize one or two of those guys. When do they get to Scarlet Begonias?
ReplyDeleteIt's in between "Sugar Magnolia" and "Fire on The Mountain", if we're lucky they'll do a short reprise after "Fire".
DeleteThat would work too. It's really the audience that's happening here. You know - us.
Deleteafter 30 minutes of tuning and the 20 minute drum solo. jeez.
ReplyDeleteI'd happily listen to 200,000 minutes of Charlie tuning the skins, and I don't recall him ever taking a solo, thank the goddess.
ReplyDeleteThey knighted the wrong man - he's always been Sir Charles Watts in my mind.
Delete(I think Anonymous was referring to the Dead in his comment, and I think you probably knew that)
Oops, sorry about that Anonymous!
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