Many of you have heard by now about the Learjet carrying six people that crashed in Columbia, South Carolina this past Friday night. Four people were killed and the two survivors recovering in a burn center in Augusta, Georgia are Travis Barker and DJ AM. Here’s a link to the latest news of their condition: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055003/news#ni0570275 . According to this source, the two are “expected to fully recover from this horrific event.”
I’ve written before about the way music connects emotion, memory, artist, and fan (see previous blogs “Someone saved my life tonight” and “Musician, heal thyself”). Today I am further considering the complexity of these associations.
This tragic event has changed the way I will listen to Blink 182 and subsequent projects that drummer Travis Barker has been involved with. As someone who has enjoyed and appreciated his art, I already feel a kind of connection with him. When I hear him, I celebrate life–keeping the beat with him, thinking about where I was when I first heard the song and then thinking about the wild ride to where I am today. Now, I will also be thinking of the horror of what he has survived, wishing I could know how he is, and wishing I could do something to help him.
That’s it . . .
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