So soon I'm groping in heroes. In the last few months I've added another hero, Alvin Lee, unfortunately died too young. With his band Ten Years After he wrote and played for decades a very own Blues Rock with often fantastic lyrics. Just played my favorite album of this band on the record player, A Space In Time, their sixth album, released in August 1971. I'm just ten years old. In 1973 the album will be released Recorded Live That I borrow from the local plates and spin for a week. It's my first acquaintance with Ten Years After and Alvin Lee and then I borrowed some of their lps from the same address. Only, an old blues guitarist once put it this way: To love the blues, you must have suffered, suffered. Of course, at the age of 12, I think I'm suffering a lot, but time is going to teach me that's bullshit. Meanwhile, a few decades later, I suddenly became a huge blues fan. In the meantime I have nine old albums, from the early days, from Ten Years After in my album cabinet, or rather next to my record player, because not a day goes by without these four blues rockers. I just dropped out of the next line. About The Hill on:
I got too much to loose,
no one can fill my shoes.
This seems to me to be a very good attitude and wisdom. Not the defeatist nothing to loose of the no future period from the 1980s, but I may be there, I matter and that what I have is precious and worthwhile. These are mainly intangible possessions such as creativity, love, spiritual development, intelligence and all the other achievements that make life worthwhile. It's even better when you have a nice life besides yourself. It's different for everyone. For one, that (many) friends, a nice house to live in, fun activities or walking in nature on sunny days, for the other a nice job, wife and children, sports and so on. You can make the list as long as you want, but it's important that you get along with yourself, have confidence and enjoy the things that are happening.
