AMAZING JOURNEY

(I wrote this on the topic/challenge of our great songwriters to stay lyrically relevant in the later stages of their careers. This was after watcing "Amazing Journey" the great documentary about The WHO on the plane to NY. (Virgin America Rocks.)

 

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ARTISTS GETTING OLDER

The problem with being an older songwriter, like Pete Townsend, or Paul McCartney, or Joni Mitchell, is that if you've lived long enough, you start to understand the meaning of things and you want to write about what you've seen and understand, have learned.

 

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT

When they were younger and brash and confused and running a full tank of hormones they were able to spew and spout and rail with more directness, and less consciousness of what they were saying.

Now, years later they look at the songs they wrote as brilliant artists and young men and women and can actually see and hear what they were thinking about, wondering about, and searching for.

 

WHAT ME WORRY?

What they were drawn to like a moth to the flame, ran from like a bat out of hell, and angry about like a rolling stone.

But now, they're cursed, or challenged, with self knowledge and worldly awareness and it's a bit harder to pull out a good image without knowing it's meaning in our canon of past work, our library of clip part from our past journey, demon's, angels and all.

OK. I commit to give another listen to that recent WHO CD