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I have a hard time understanding or explaining my musical evolution....these posts help. I rarely listen to recorded music anymore. I have completely lost interest in music as a background for other activities. When I listen, it's completely about the music. Total focus. Blocking out all else. And there's just not that much time for that any more. When you've been so involved in intense music as we have, music goes to another level in life. We've stood before, and listened to, some of the most passionate music our species has ever created. Not just the Allman Brothers--although surely birthed by them--but what we hear locally. I don't live in your town, but I assume my situation is not unique. People speak of Dickey or Derek "going off," which is so very true. But it's pretty damn amazing to stand in front of Brent Sibley or Lefty Collins or Albert Simpson or Isaac Pike and watch the whole band get caught up in the same passion, watch men carried along, taken away, making the project work spontaneously. It's so damn good, it causes much of what I used to enjoy to fade into meaninglessness. Or something like that. Sorry to ramble, I doubt that anybody is really interested. But it's such a change from the previous 55 years of my world. Sometimes it bothers me, usually not. fwiw