The Bigger Issue, Was The Whole Takeover

You Need Music, I Don't Know Why. It's Probably One Of Those Joe Campbell Questions, Why We Need Ritual. We Need Magic, And Bliss, And Power, Myth, And Celebration And Religion In Our Lives, And Music Is A Good Way To Encapsulate A Lot Of It.

I Read Somewhere That 77 Per Cent Of All The Mentally Ill Live In Poverty. Actually, I'm More Intrigued By The 23 Per Cent Who Are Apparently Doing Quite Well For Themselves.

So We Are Pretty Convinced We Don't Want To Play Huge Stadiums Unless We Can Play Them Well.

But Audio Is A Component Of Video, So There's Always Been That Anyway, And Although We've Never Expressed A Visual Side Apart From The Grateful Dead Movie, I Don't Find It That Remote, You Know What I Mean? It's A Departure Of Sorts, But It's Like A First Cousin.

In My Own Musical Existence I Don't Feel That Being A Guitar Player Is Like The Best Thing On Earth To Be. I Would Rather Be A Balanced Musician. Playing In A Group, I'm Tending To Think More About The Music And Less About The Guitar. That's Just Me Getting Older. I'm Not Interested In Being A Virtuoso Guitar Player Or Anything Like That.