Greta Van Fleet is currently low on my listening list. It's not that they're bad, they're not, they're fine. It's just.....I can't put my finger on it. There's a certain mythology to being rock stars and Greta Van Fleet just seem to be regular guys who wear rock outfits, like they're putting on a stage production. Again, it's just my opinion and what do I know?
So YouTube rolled Greta Van Fleet's The Weight of Dreams into my Classic Rock mix. It is an excellent song and for a brief moment I cursed my own judgement. I wondered aloud why I had to be such a jaded bastard all the time. "God Bless Greta Van Fleet for keeping the Rock Flame flickering," I thought.
Then I continued to type.
Type, type, type, focusing on my writing.
Type, type, type.....
Hey wait a minute, YouTube is replaying Weight of Dreams? I switched windows and the song playing was no longer Greta Van Fleet, but Buckethead's Soothsayer.
Now Buckethead's not really on my radar either. I respect him and I'm aware of his work, but the only song I own by Buckethead is We Are One. So I stopped writing and concentrated on Soothsayer. An amazing nine minute guitar instrumental.
Then I went back and listened to Weight of Dreams. Weight of Dreams has soaring vocals to begin the song and me and my brain had a brief conversation. "What are we doing here?"
Went back and listened to Soothsayer.
Then went back and listened to Weight of Dreams, starting at the interlude at the 4:55 mark.
Went back and listened to 2006's Soothsayer yet again.
Then went back and listened to Weight of Dreams. Live:
Went back and listened to Soothsayer for a fourth time. (By this time, my wife thinks I have OCD.)
Shhhhh....
My brain and the YouTube algorithm know a secret....
You know what? We're done here.
Before you go, please listen to We Are One. Yes, that's Buckethead and THE Serj from System of a Down.
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