Today has been a great day. In between doing some stuff around the house, I've basically had a guitar in my hands from the moment I woke up. I've gone through some of the Lead tab stuff from yesterday (but not with the DVD yet), paged through the new Guitar World, and done a little bit of stuff in terms of originals. Not as much as I would've liked to yet, but the night is young, and I've still got tomorrow. Haven't gotten in touch with J. yet, but that'll be tomorrow's project. Off to do more playing. Oh, and I forgot to dream up a Top 5 for today, so you'll just have to wait on that one. Hopefully another great one tomorrow!
So, the new Springsteen disc is amazing. There's enough of a mixture of his upbeat rockers, his ballads, and his message songs to make this his best record since The Rising . And speaking of that record... Buying The Boss the day it comes out always takes me back to a specific moment in life. It was July 30th, 2002, the year after 9/11, the year after someone on the streets of New York told Springsteen "we need you now." I had driven to Oshkosh, WI to visit some friends, when I remembered that Springsteen's disc was scheduled to come out that day. I drove downtown to The Exclusive Company, but had to park a few blocks back. At the time, there wasn't much going on downtown, but when I got out of the car, I could hear this music coming from up the block somewhere. The closer I got to Exclusive, the more it began to dawn on me, they had set up a giant set of speakers in their upstairs windows, and were blasting the new album out into the streets....
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