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Elise
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Date Posted: 15:09:06 03/27/06 Mon
In reply to:
Captured Angel
's message, "Re: Dan's guitars" on 16:11:54 03/10/06 Fri
For me I think it's a logical progression for Dan. As a fan I'm not happy about his early retirement, but as a fan I also want what's best for him. So if he's happy and healthy I'm happy for him. One could say that Mountain Bird has become an albatrose around his neck. Just the overhead of running a ranch that size has got to be very expensive. It's been pretty well documented, by Dan himself as well as others, that he hates to tour, add that to the fact that he pretty much stopped writing songs after River Of Souls, and I could see him leaving the business for good. Especially if he was touring just to make enough money to keep up his old lifestyle when he was selling millions of records and selling out big arenas. I can't imagine doing something you love for so long and then having it turn into a job. If Dan was touring just to meet his overhead, that's one thing - then throw cancer on top of that and I'm sure he did some deep soul searching. Oh well, nothing lasts forever - but I'll be listening to all of Dan's records for the rest of my life. Hoping that, if the planets line up, and he can recover financially, that he'll make new music again.
Elise
>>You know, as a fan, it's sad to me to see Dan selling
>off his guitars. It kind of seems like he's parting
>with his "children", so to speak. Hopefully, the
>people who have bought them will treasure them and
>find great satisfaction in making their own kind of
>music on them.
>
>He's made such beautiful, and memorable, music on
>those guitars. And music has been such an elemental
>part of him. Has his illness estranged him from
>making music, I wonder? I would think he'd derive -
>and need - a certain amount of comfort from making
>music as he made his way through this dark period.
>
>I truly hope he hasn't given it up completely; even
>if he never records or performs ever again (and I
>truly hope he DOES return to these pursuits), I hope
>that Dan can find escape in writing and playing for
>himself.
>
>On a similar note, it was also dismaying to see
>Mountain Bird Ranch up for sale. He's always seemed
>so inextricably linked with Colorado and his
>dearly-loved mountains. But a life-changing event
>such as he's faced the past couple of years can make a
>person re-examine who he is, how he lives, and how he
>will approach the future.
>
>For the fans, it's a bit like the end of an era.
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