Okay, let's do serious business now, I am doing very well this week. It's a busy week since our community in DC/Virginia will celebrate its 30th anniversary this weekend! Woohoo, cool times!
But I don't feel like sharing too much about that, it's just going to be a lot of fun and stress.
Nevermind, I want to tell you something else. Most of you guys should know that I am a huge music fan. I mean, huge. I really care about what I am listening. ALL the time. Sounds usual, right? But I think I would consider myself as someone who is really intentionally listening to music. I like more or less all kinds of music, I went through all the phases and stages you could imagine.. let's not talk about that too much..
But now, I think it was like 2 weeks ago, I went into a local CD/DVD store to look for some John Butler Trio records and kinda randomly ended up walking out of the store with 3 albums from the Dave Matthews Band that I was listening to a little bit before.
I know that I might exaggerate..but: It changed my life. My last 2 weeks could be described by 3 things: Work, Breaking Bad Finale, Dave Matthews Band. I loaded the 3 records on my iPod and since that particular moment I listened to like 5 songs from different bands. And 1 of these 5 songs was the "Imperial March" from Star Wars which I turned on when I walked downstairs to work.
So I found myself only listening to this one awesome band. I never heard anything that is filled with such power, diversity, complexity and fun combined. It's a mix of.. well, just listen to it yourself, it's amazing.
The good thing about it: they got 8 albums out. So I will probably go get the bus on Monday and get me at least 2 more. I learned a lot of their songs on guitar and it is so much fun..
Well, I guess most of the people who read this are not really interested in it.. but shit, I'll share it anyway.
My favorite song(if I had to choose one): Crush.
It is arguably, hands down, the best love song ever written. And not only the studio version is awesome, it grows even more on stage.
I want to share these to performances with you.
The first one is a version with the whole band, and the second one, it gets me every time, is a version just Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, 2 acoustic guitars and a bottleneck. Magic.
Passion.
And even though like most of you people won't care at all.. maybe I get one or two of you to become a DMB fan as I am now. They are in my top ten. And not in the lower part!
I will now finish my laundry and go to sleep. And "shut down" my laptop. I hope you see what I did there.
Peace & Love from Arlington
PJB
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