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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Where Will My Guitars Be in 50 years?

We've all seen the movie 'Soylent Green' (at least if you haven't, maybe go see it). Temperatures have soared, food is scarce, and a permanent haze hangs over Charlton Heston's city. Most people seem to live in the stairwells of buildings, and some have taken refuge in a Church. The time in the movie is around 2022... by then Mick Jagger will be getting ready for his 80th birthday. The latest issue of Rolling Stone says by the middle of this century, Las Vegas will be uninhabitable, and so will most of Arizona. Sea levels will have been going up for a while, with Malibu inhabited by fishes. Ok... not to depress anyone, so Rolling Stone also said most of us will still be alive, playing our Axe's... but just maybe without power for parts of the day. People freak about all this coming down the pike, but also they forget that California in 1740 had no power, indians (hostile and not), freak insect attacks, disease, wild bears, cold, heat, rain, and also eathquakes. Humanity has endured hostile conditions for most of it's existance. What's really changed? So... where will my guitars be in 50 years, after Mick Jagger has departed, and I am maybe getting ready to leave? They'll probably still be here, being played by some guy singing the Blues in a stairwell... then again, this is also going on while we speak, somewhere in Manhattan.