So, if one of the true keys to a long and content or happy life is the ability to accept loss, then I guess this old bag is going to get older. Loss isn’t just a loved one, or someone you respected and emulated; sometimes it’s an experience that affected you deeply; made you cry, or laugh or dance. If anything, the soft, now public announcement of a reunion of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead would gather to celebrate a 50 year anniversary. Jerry may have died, but the Grateful Dead’s legacy has failed to stutter. Take this weeks quotes from Robert Plant, of The Sensational Shapeshifters, The Band of Joy, Raising Sand and Led Zep. A band doesn’t seem like much, but when you become a corporation, with health benefits, insurance policies, busses, trailers, pr and handlers, you are then a bonafide business, with products to protect, integrity protected. To read that The Black Crowes will be no more because a founding partner in a firm wishes to be the only shareholder is white collar sadness, and creates a loss in the those that invested emotionally and financially. I wish CRob had had some grace, and perhaps retired his band in respect and glory, class and grace like the Allman Brothers Band. It’s kind of hard for me to accept that so much of me was built on the best American product; our music. If nothing, the catalogues of The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers and The Black Crowes are truly, purely, red, white and blue all-American and my earliest personal experiences are rooted in their songs; even the Crowes, who are part of my journey into the dark, that got me to quit drinking. Thank you so very much, Mr. Plant. I wish we’d discussed this on the Ryman stage is about all I have to offer. I’m sorry we are losing the live aspect of so much American music. Let Mr. Plant sing it out....https://youtube/watch?v=f8190Rb68zo#t=35
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:36:17 +0000
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