Everybody's got the same story
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 11:59PM When I was 10 years old, I was at the library looking through CDs. I did this often. It was in Lincoln, NE. I found a copy of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The album cover caught my eye. If you're not familiar with the cover of Sgt. Pepper's, then clearly you have stumbled across the wrong blog.
It is now many, many years later, and I am the lead guitar/Rhodes/Harmonica/MacBook Pro player in the Whicker and Pine. I was asked to post a blog entry this week. Plumbing the depths of my intellect for content is less glamorous than you might hope. Rock n' roll is really the only thing I know much about. I have come to terms with this fact, and joined one hell of a rock band to prove it.
People are often surprise when I tell them that checking out a Beatles record from the library is to this day the most influential moment of my life. I suppose modern musicians are expected to have a hipper story filled with unexpected nights at CBGB watching cool bands no one's heard of blow my mind and light my soul on fire. Instead, I found a Beatles record at the library in Lincoln, NE. I learned every lyric before I returned it a week later. I felt mildly uncomfortable during the end of "Lovely Rita." I thought "A Day in the Life" was the single greatest musical composition I had ever heard, although at age 10 I feel my opinions may have been underdeveloped. I now consider it the number 2 greatest composition.
The greatest record I've ever listened to in my life was created by my friend Allen. He is in a band called Anita/Exira. I am one of the shamefully fortunate few who have a copy of Anita/Exira's self-titled on 130-gram vinyl. The first time I listened to the record, I sat in silence for nearly an hour when it was done. It was the most beautiful, simple, aching, and brilliant composition I'd ever heard. If I ever quit music, it will be because I've excepted the fact that I will never make something as good as Anita/Exira. And I will be okay with this fact.
At this point, I've written somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 words about myself. Even as a rock and roll guitar player I know this is a lot to expect you to read.
Please come to the next W&P show. We are a very good band of very good men working very, very hard to make music that makes us happy. We also believe it will make you happy. It's also your best shot of hearing my Sgt.Pepper's story in person. It's much more exciting that way.
Reader Comments (4)
If there were CDs in libraries when you were younger, then you are young my friend. But I guess everyone is sort of young. Young is contextual. It is not an insult.
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