Brothers
and Sisters has taken up residence in my player. Bill put together a
beautiful "Super Deluxe Edition" and Scott wrote a beautiful essay with
Kirk and many others including EJ contributing. There is a ton of
music.
And so now the band's sound has changed. Of course it
has how could it not? You cannot take the human element away from the
creation and not have that creation change in a
profound way. No gear or person can substitute step in for another and
have it be the same. It’s a physical impossibility. It doesn't matter
if you have the licks down, it doesn't matter if you have the gear, it
doesn't matter if you have the throat. The human factor, the heart, the
hands, the journey, the affinity for the music, the vibe, the
understanding, the knowledge, the study, the dedication, the humility,
the ego, the upbringing all speak to the particular individual the
intent, the focus, the clarity it’s all a part of the mix. Remove
something as dynamic as one human individual and it changes. It's in
the blood.
The beauty of the ABB is that they knew this quite
clearly as Duane and Berry were their own men. And so they forged
ahead without their brothers and created a new version of themselves as a
band, a group, but more than that they stayed on the mission to stay as
pure to the music as they could. They were still listening to each
other both on and off stage.
Time doesn't stand still it
morphs and changes as we do as well. Along the way it informs us as we
mold the clay that is ourselves with our decisions, intentions, actions,
thoughts, words and deeds. That is who we are and that is what comes
out after we plug in. It sounds like you because it is you and you are
who you are and what it is, what it becomes depends on those very
factors, those points, that DNA that road you traveled and no one else
has – hopefully it’s a good one and you are the hero of your own story.
The guy on the left sure as hell was.
