keeps getting.......
As each day of this week passes things pop up, bloom and give me positive outlooks and things to look forward to. I reconciled with a couple of old friends, made a new one, got the new Bread tribute album (Carrie Clough or Call and Response sounds like Karen Carpenter), been keeping busy, being open minded, found out about a possible FIRST EVER SHOW on the 30th of April and another that Ben has agreed to do.
Marvis: "There's this show in San Jose at a park with 7 other bands..do you want to do it?"
Ben: "Fuck it, let's do it"
Damn I like his attitude!
Now if we have any type of merch it should be WWJL bead bracelets.
This album is really good....Goosebumps good.
Those of us who grew up with songs of Bread might remember when "The Guitar Man" or "Make It With You" would randomly flow from the speakers of a parent's car. Maybe we weren't really listening because back then our only real favorite music was whatever the ice cream man's truck was playing.
As we grew more toward adolescence, our parents still listened to the A.M stations that continued to play songs of Bread. But many of us still weren't really listening because our older brothers, sisters, baby sitters and the older siblings of our best friends were leaving different kinds of recods on the floor for us to pick up and put on.
The mucsic of the older kids was full of dramatic love and adventures that we envisioned to be as cool and dangerous as it sounded.
And so some of us let the songs of the older kids' records become the blueprints and maps to our lives. And when we least expected it, sometimes we would turn the corner and run right into a Bread song. But if we stopped to listen, it was admittedly knowing that we listedened for nostalgia's sake or maybe even for pretty irony. Some of us might have dismissed Bread as nothing more than a guilty pleasure.
But some of us were stopped in our tracks right then--only to realize that most of the songs of Bread are a beautiful and moving as any other songs that we have spent our lifetime gathering. and so we learn to let the of Bread take us back.
And now that we're back, this album is about letting the songs of Bread take us forward.
Eric Shea/ Dylan Magierek