Music from Big Pink

The Band · 1968

Album cover for Music from Big Pink by The Band

I think it’s a little arrogant that they call themselves THE band, as there are many, many bands in the world.

Unless they’re trying to trick purveyors of wine into giving them more wine whenever the crowd cries “more wine for the band”, and the purveyors mistake “the” for “THE”, so they ship off a crate of their cheapest product to these guys instead of giving it to the musicians that are right in front of them.

I mean, other musicians are due their perks too, right? Why should these guys usurp those? Plus their music is kinda dull. Maybe someone should give them some more wine to liven things up. Although the cover art seems to indicate that perhaps they’ve had too much already.

Maybe it’s the wine that’s the root of the problem. I mean, I like wine too, but don’t think I’d go so far as to put a cup of it on my head while I’m playing the guitar. I’d use one of those caps with cupholders and a straw. But that would make it hard to look down at the strings to see which chord I’m playing.

Maybe I’m just a lousy guitar player.