More than Music!

music-device_gjwab28uI got into a discussion about music the other day. A person was saying that there is still good music out there still being created, it was that we are too lazy to find it. I would have to say I agree with that, maybe not lazy but too busy with other things to find it. With all the different ways to get music, Pandora, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon and Android I just don’t have the time to look through all that to find what I like. I can also say that there is no way what they put on the landing page is anything I want. What they are pushing as music sounds more like the blender with a brillo pad in it on high. The biggest problem is that a lot of the music I like if I sit down and think about it is less about the music and more about the memories that go with it. When I was a young man, my cousin who I worked with told me U2 was playing at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium that night. I think at that time I might have known one song by them this was well before they got big. We decided to go up on the train after work and see them. I will say that it was the best concert I have ever seen, they were amazing. More than that my cousin and I had a great time together. That cousin died a few years later in a tragic accident. So when I hear early U2 songs, it is not just the good music that I hear, but a strong memory in my heart which makes the connection. The music I like is more than the band or even the song; it usually is connected to a time or place in my past which was powerful for me and makes that extra magic which makes me hunt the various music stores for those songs. That is something I can’t get off any music stores!

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