On Being on the Radio

This week I heard myself on the radio, SiriusXM to be exact.

I recorded a session for the What Would You Play program on the Dave Matthews Band Channel for SXM, and I discovered it airing this past week. For those of you who didn't catch it, you didn't miss much. The songs are DMB staples - 

Crash

AATWT

The Idea of You

Dreaming Tree

Crush

Shake me Like a Monkey

Ants.

Each of these songs has significance to me, and sharing this significance and the songs, to me, was a way of letting the world know about me. We all want to be known in some small way - because 100 years from now there will not be a sole alive that knew me. I won't be in the history books (unless something changes dramatically and very soon). However, this little digital-ditty that I put together will survive - along with videos, pictures, and some paper memorabilia.

We are living in a time where it is nearly impossible to NOT leave a digital legacy for your ancestors to find and learn from to find out who you were - when you were someone that could be known. So, I'm going to stop taking shots at Shit-Show-Joe, and I promise to not call him this again. I wouldn't say it about my father and his mistakes, so I shouldn't say it about the President. 

The same goes for all the other aspects of my online, social, and recorded life. I want things like my session on SiriusXM to be what defines and describes me to those, 100 years from now, were curious as to what and who I was. I was there for my kids, I supported by wives in their endeavors as best I could, I tried to make those who worked for me better and those I worked for glad they gave me the opportunity.

If I can be remembered for this - then I suspect I'll be someone the digital History Books of my family will not only remember, but be pleased they came from my line of folks.

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