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And I can . I just put on these tracks and I ’ m taken there .
I don ’ t want to go to the show , too often it ’ s creepy , people who weren ’ t there at the advent listening to those giving them what they want as opposed to giants descending from their spaceship to grace us with their mood and then disappearing .
That ’ s what ’ s wrong with Desert Trip . It was about us .
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And back then , it was positively about them . They were Gods .
Eric Clapton lives to fish . Pattie Boyd just got married for the third time . We ’ ve lost our hair , we go to the doctor more than the show . But when we put on these tracks we remember ...
That once upon a time music was the most important thing in the world . You didn ’ t go to Facebook , you went to the record store . You might have saved up for a better turntable , but that was about as far as your tech went . And most stereo systems were shite .
But what came out of the speakers was not . ■
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