“Don’t let the past remind us of what we are not now”.
I’m thinking this Crosby Stills and Nash lyric is more important now than when they wrote it. I can’t stop thinking about it, so I share it.
I’m a DJ (some of you know) w/ a 16yr SF residency of happy hour funk/soul/afrobeat/downtempo etc. I’m 44 & just getting into classic rock (b/c of the film Annihilation). I’ve always liked it, but as a music guy never steeped myself in it. I was always “Pink Floyd, not Zeppelin”, while at the same time being “R.L. Burnside, Van Cliburn, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Jimmy Smith, Primus, and James Brown”.
So, in this moment of moving on from the maga thing, and how caring progressive minds are fighting to make this country inclusive and equitable, while being discouraged by the literal existence of a complex past here in the USA… I proffer forth some classic rock wisdom.
Crosby Stills & Nash is like a medicated balm. I’m surprised I even stopped repeat listening to Helplessly Hoping (which I call Hopelessly Helping time and time again like a dyslexic), but Judy Blue Eyes played and I noted one of the most important lyrics for modern American history and our time of being discouraged while trying to pave the way to the future we want to believe in and be proud of.