Someone once said
“Grace is about not fearing death or fearing any of those countless slings and arrows you suffer sometimes on this earth, because somebody loves you.
You’re not afraid to withstand what you need to withstand because there’s this tremendous fuel that you feel regenerating inside because it’s somebody else’s love for you.
That’s what grace is about.”
Listening to music nowdays, I’m left wanting more because I’m not satisfied most of the time. This guy’s potential leaves me so pissed off at every other simple minded artist out there, ie Green Day, Maroon 5, Hoobastank, Nickelback, and on and on. You buy an album and end up liking maybe 1 or 2 tracks in it most of the time. And even if Rolling Stones gives a CD a 5 star rating, you listen to the CD only to learn that it’s unable to escape its own genre. To him, it was never about how loud you can play the guitar with the best distortions, or how fast you can move your fingers up and down the fretboard. It was all about the essence of music, and after each song, he leaves you satisfied and wanting more.
Now days you get the hard punk, electronica, the post-grunge, the all too played out indie rock, singer-songwriter, alternative music, each within its clearly defined limits. But this man didn’t know those boundaries, and I will continue to wait patiently and search extensively until another artist comes along who is not afraid to break the strict rules of each genre and actually make my soul cringe with fear, joy, desperation and loneliness. Until then, there is no equal.