On getting old and playing Geetar...

I'm busily working on a song at the moment. It is Ray Davis-inspired a tragicomic look at t.he - shall we say the 'ageing' musician.

I imagine the pleading and distress of their loved ones and spouses:

Let it go. You've gone too far.
In the name of humanity, 
Put down that guitar....

When I was in band (did I tell you I was in a band?, oh well, more of that later...). I recall John the Bassist saying: "I hope I never end up being one of those old geysers who keeps telling young people 'I used to be in a band'".

And it occurred to me that I have become that old geyser!

Anyway, last year I started working on a song who I thought was too uncool to play to anyone, so I kept it for my personal amusement. I mean how can I claim to be New Zealand's answer to Radiohead with tripe like "An Afficionado of the Club Nostalgia' ?... and now? Well one of the benefits of getting  'older' is that you end up not giving a rat's ass.

It is incredibly liberating not having to be 'cool'.

When I was younger, so much younger than today, I'd write a song and if you didn't like it well it was your problem. Then I matured and got all angsty and involved and meticulous about my 'craft'. 

Now I'm back to square one.

So anyway should there be an age-bar on 'Rock'? I know, I know The Rolling Stones and all that. But Mick is still pretending he's in his forties when he should know better, so I think it is better for the youth of the world, (especially the females) if he's kept off-tour. But then Johnny Cash kept on till the end, and I reckon some of his finest stuff came from that later era.

In fact Johnny Cash was a living monument to the virtues of just hanging on in there and keeping on doing what you love to do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVRtoU5-A_M