Dig That Guy Out

There is a small voice inside of me that always tells me, “You’re too old to start something new.” In his book Three Mile an Hour God, Kosuke Koyama says, “When I think about time, I have no other choice than to be humble.” Bob Dylan said something interesting while pontificating on his 80th birthday. I don’t have the exact quote in front of me, but it was something to the effect of: time moves on, but we stand still. To me, that really says that we’re all passengers here, and we get to react to it as we will. All of this is especially on my mind as I’m kind of hot on playing 90s and 2000s covers, learning them, charting out songs, and tapping them out on the MPC. Is this another wild goose chase for a musical idea that will go nowhere? That no one will ever know about? Maybe. I mean, I have a pile of songs that are, quote, “going nowhere.” I should probably delete them, but I’m happy I did them. And if I chart out 20 songs from the 90s and 2000s and learn them, I’m that much smarter,…