H.M.N.I. ing beneath you who you can fall on and
hurt.
Continued from Page 25 IE: Chuck — your take?
CB: Well, it’s a crazy world that we live in
right now. I write songs about this kind of
stuff. So maybe we’re on this repetitive
cycle that this planet has been enduring
since its beginning. Maybe we’re doing it
again. Humanity’s doing it to itself,
destroying the planet. So maybe we’ll be
starting things all over again because the
world has been here for a long time, but a
lot has happened because of us in the last
hundred years. And I thought after all the
wars going on and everything else that’s
happened, that we’d be more united and
together as one. But we’re still just being
stupid, doing stupid stuff to ourselves.
GH: I dunno. I don’t think life will ever be
normal. Not for a long time. Even when
we’re able to go out and it’s clear, there’s
gonna be a long period of suspicion,
where nobody wants to get close to any-
body anymore. So who knows what it’s
going to do to live music. But I have faith
in governor Newsom that he’s not going
to lift the shelter in place order until it’s
safe to do so.
But like the riots [protests] happening
in Michigan. People say, “I’m putting my
faith in the Lord that I won’t die.” Really?
I don’t care whether you put your faith in
the Lord for yourself — go ahead. It’s like
trying to pet that rattlesnake, and you
have faith in the Lord, but it bites you in
the neck, and you die. You’re the only one
who dies. But now you also have to put
faith in the fact that you’re not going to
infect 21 more people. They forget all
about the word ‘contagious.’ Hey — you
can go swinging from high power lines for
all I care — as long as no children are play-
IE: Do you have a bugout bag like a lot of
doomsday preppers?
CB: Well, instead of a bag, I went and
bought a motor home. If shit hits the fan,
let’s get outta here. We. Are. Gone. We can
go live on the reservation somewhere.
- Tom Lanham
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