by 48 » 18th February 2012, 07:32
Donchikubeba,
Sometimes I think, it’s quite important for us present day chaps, to look at an alternative reality. We can look at Whitney and dismiss her as a loser. OR we can look at the other side of the coin. What’s our life built on? Music is a big part. At least for many of us. Look at Jimi Hendricks, for instance. The guy died at 26. in the !960s. I think. Maybe it was the 70s, who knows. Drugs, recklessness, the whole bit. But to this day in the guitarist community, he’s practically worshipped as a demigod. Generations of musicians look up to Hendricks as the greatest guitarist of all time. He could make a guitar talk. As they say. But he died of a drug over-dose. Young. Very very young and absolutey and tragically broken, as a human being.
Tragedy kills some of these guys, so we the sober, lazy, selfish ones, could enjoy our life that much more. Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Whitney and the rest of them will sell more records in death than in life. Living people will make money off of these dead guys. If we are decent, we have to admit that these dead guys made our lives that much better. Their moral failings notwithstanding.
Donchikubeba,
Sometimes I think, it’s quite important for us present day chaps, to look at an alternative reality. We can look at Whitney and dismiss her as a loser. OR we can look at the other side of the coin. What’s our life built on? Music is a big part. At least for many of us. Look at Jimi Hendricks, for instance. The guy died at 26. in the !960s. I think. Maybe it was the 70s, who knows. Drugs, recklessness, the whole bit. But to this day in the guitarist community, he’s practically worshipped as a demigod. Generations of musicians look up to Hendricks as the greatest guitarist of all time. He could make a guitar talk. As they say. But he died of a drug over-dose. Young. Very very young and absolutey and tragically broken, as a human being.
Tragedy kills some of these guys, so we the sober, lazy, selfish ones, could enjoy our life that much more. Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Whitney and the rest of them will sell more records in death than in life. Living people will make money off of these dead guys. If we are decent, we have to admit that these dead guys made our lives that much better. Their moral failings notwithstanding.