‘should be played loud’

To­day
marks the 43rd an­niver­sary of The Last Waltz con­cert at Win­ter­land in San Francisco.

The thing about lov­ing some­thing old is that it’s nat­u­ral­ly en­cased in a kind of cleans­ing am­ber that for­gives … everything.

In­side that, ap­par­ent short­com­ings be­comes aesthetic.

So when I put on The Last Waltz, as I just did (again) – and get out my box set of the vinyl signed by Rob­bie Robert­son – every­thing that could work against it be­comes clean.

Time rounds off the edges and all that.

The grime and dirt and even the re­dubs (of which there are ap­par­ent­ly many) all get honed down to this thing that’s a bet­ter ver­sion of reality.

Which I guess is what His­to­ry is anyway.

This agree­able and agreed upon essence of what a time was sup­posed to be and mean.

And it’s not truth but it’s also not *not* truth. I’ve been eye­wit­ness to more than my share of mun­dane his­toric events that maybe need­ed that lac­quer of re­vi­sion to be­come what they were sup­posed to be in the first place.

#the­band

 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2019 Ja­son Malmberg.

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