Paper Triangle

I’ve been watching the new Pillows dvd on Youtube for the past two days.  Haven’t gotten very far, but I’ve been watching it nonetheless.  One thing that happens during the DVD is that the creators will jump back and show some old music videos of the Pillows- rather ridiculous ones.  It’s when they show these old videos that you realize how old these guys are.  Then you analyze the facts: they’ve been together since 1989.  So they’ve almost been a band for twenty years! 

On the way home from bass lessons I realized something.  Sure, they’ve been a band for almost 20 years, that’s bodacious… but it’s been the same two guitarists for those twenty years… and that struck something inside of me.  That made seriously yell out, “holy shit that’s amazing.”  Why?  Because these two guys have not only been friends for 20 years… they’ve been bandmates.  They’ve been creating music together for a huge chunk of their lives and to be together for that long is jaw-dropping.

I mean, think about it this way… when I create music I’m putting my heart and soul on the table and I’m expressing myself creatively and trying to create something that can’t be taught or learned.  Now imagine if I were doing that for twenty years and it was my job, my entire life… Now imagine that I’ve had someone by my side for all of those 20 years helping me do these things/doing the exact same thing as me…  That’s phenomenal!  I can barely wrap my head around it. 

I dunno, there’s not much else to say.  If you don’t understand the gravity of the situation by what I’ve just said, there’s no point in explaining. 

With that note, I’m gonna watch some more of that dvd…