04/20/2012
Four years ago today, Fred and I picked up the keys and for the first time hung around what we now call The Clocktower. Four beautiful years later we've found a second home for ourselves and an outlet for our minds, with a portfolio of hundreds of songs and a boatload of memories. Thank you to everyone who has come here with us. I've posted an album of (low quality) camera phone photos from these first days in their own album.
On a low note however, one of Fred and my favorite artists and an inspiration for a wealth of our ideas passed away today. Levon Helm, singer and drummer of The Band died of throat cancer and we're both distraught. The songs which his voice carried have meant so much to us. "I'm so sad. Like a family member," Fred said today. Those these two events may coincide today, we mustn't forget that the path is paved with the ashes of the dead.
Cheers,
Matt
From "The Band is Back" DVD Vancouver 1983