They become a curiosity though.

I mean it's interesting to listen to the original Silkworms, then the Bumblefoot version then the studio. Just like it's fun to hear the 3 or 4 other old versions of Shadow of Your Love or whatever. But in the end of the day no one really cares other than real hardcores like us, and even most of us only care as a mild novelty in between listening to the commercial stuff. Not going to be commanding huge sums of money.

It's interesting to try and find comparisons.

Like my grandfather lived to 101 and must have seen some amazing technological stuff. I think about it sometimes - like the car taking off etc...it's sort of insane. But in a way I feel we have had more of a social or cultural shift recently.

I guess the 1960s generation was a huge shift too...but they seem to have been actively pushing it...whereas I don't know anyone who likes whatever it is that's happening now lol.

It's a good point about social media too. I feel the net was a lot more fun in 1995-2003 era when like anything you were interested in had it's own site run by people who were fanboys for that thing. the tech sucked compared to now in terms of streaming and speeds and stuff. But everything now is corporate and false and there's that nasty kind of undercurrent on everything too.

But even wider it's a bit like social media has broken society kinda. Everyone is narcissistic and so on. I'm not even sure what the problem is.

I feel like i'm always asked to choose between equally important values for me in race to the bottom. Like I feel we should have freedoms but I also feel we should have civic responsibility to one another. Covid seemed to put those things in opposition to each other. It's kinda like asking me if my wife should have a vagina or boobs. How about both? lol.

It's weird huh.

Maybe it's like Axl first cos it's obviously his song.

Brain next cos his recording is the next oldest dating from around 2000. Axl's way of being kind.

Duff next to remind Slash that he isn't the band's number 2 (even though we all know he is lol).

Then slash ahead of Fortus because he's fucking Slash and the world wants to read his name sooner.

Fortus ahead of Dizzy because poor Dizzy is the virtual gimp. (love dizzy, i'm just saying, he's not fighting duff any time soon).

I've been trying to find a good example to explain what I mean but it's more of a feeling. Something about this reality feels wrong as if we are living in the alternative 1985 timeline from back to the future where Biff is super wealthy

There's events that are hard to reconcile with back then - eg Trump getting elected (love or hate him), now they seem to be saying UFOs are real, and of course the pandemic happening etc, it's like anything that can happen now does. Like I saw a meme about a sink hole in china the other day revealing an ancient forest semi-underground (have not fact checked it).. ..and I ask myself...would it be surprising if they find dinos? These days not so much.Seems crazy shit is just normal now. But it's not even so much specific things like that.

Perhaps it's the rate of change? I just think back to say 1995 and this world does not "flow" on naturally from that. Like in the way people think, the way people act, things happen now that would have been unthinkable back then. Some of it is the tech we have, but some of it is fundamental value changes or something but it's not the evolution I would have expected from things or something.

Even stuff like politics, like there is still this war between "left" and "right" but I don't feel either sides values have anything to do with what left and right used to mean back in the day.

I'm aware this sounds insane, but I just feel like it's almost like what we are living in now is the alternative timeline after someone figured out  time travel or something like that. Things happen these days and I like some and loathe others but like the whole mood of everything seems like nothing anyone could have predicted in the past. Stuff we argue about these days even. It just wouldn't have even been a thing in the past. I dunno. Maybe I'm full of shit.