Thank you

I've been listening to a lot of new stuff lately...
new to me i mean... the stuff isn't exactly new... not even close to new actually... grateful dead, bob dylan, chuck berry, hendrix and so on... (knew a bit about the dead and used to listen to hendrix quite a bit too, but now im like big time hooked)

occured to me, this is quite a bit like me in college... all curious, wanting to know about different bands, finding out new stuff all the time, generally in awe of the kind of geniuses the years gone by have produced... and then a while after college, it all seemed to go away... like i wasnt curious anymore, happy with the music i already knew about, not too bothered about anything else... content

that's a fairly decent state to exist in, but that's it... it's just a state of existence.

thank you for bringing back in me the side that was almost buried, almost forgotten... almost.
thank you... for reminding me...

p.s. ...grateful dead, bob dylan, chuck berry, hendrix in one sentence... phew... did i just write that?
anyway, just taking this post further random, the dead collaborate with dylan in one album (at least), the dead (like hundreds of others) played "johnny b goode" which is a chuck berry original, hendrix played dylan's "all along the watchtower" and played it so well that dylan started playing hendrix's version of his own song from then on...
but then that's hendrix for you, he apparently played "sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band" 2 days after it was released, and actually decided back stage to play this song or something like that. (that was me unnecessarily dragging the beatles into this post).
note, i havent written about dylan's "like a rolling stone" in this post and have not dragged the rolling stones into it yet :)

guess we can also thank the geniuses who shaped rock and roll considering this post is about thanking people anyway