From Maclean’s interview with Gord Downie:
Q: You are a showman of epic proportions, and yet offstage you are a very different person. Where do you go when you get up on stage?
A: I surrender. I throw myself on the altar of song and I see my own personal musical life in fast flashes of faces and names and colours and sounds and I get lost in the euphoria of standing up there like Howlin’ Wolf or Otis Redding or David Bowie with a mike in my hand and an audience that’s ready.
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[...] think on it. It took me back to a conversation I had with a friend a few weeks ago, and an idea I blogged about recently. My friend had expressed to me a concern about being vs. seeming, that he knew that he was not, [...]