Recently I realized that I now know more dead people than live ones. About 50% of those dead people played music and did it the right way. (The others didn't care one way or the other--but they kept on doin' it.) Of those left over live people, about 50% play music --- but few have a clue what it is or was about. The facts of the situation -- the historical details -- the looking to the past and to tradition for knowledge and insights instead of to the blank page ahead that is the future-----a future that has no face yet.

The future will obtain a face----but only time will let us know whether that face was worth looking at or not.

And the audiences go nuts for whatever comes down the pike. WHY? It's the music of their wondrous youth ! That makes it enhanceable in the mind ---nostalgia after only 3 weeks on the chart. And the coffers are swollen with money...

Comes down to this folks:

If we keep on getting nostalgic about things that are more and more recent, pretty soon we'll be forced to live in the present !!!

ART THIEME