dreampepper

Somewhere along the line Dan got properly Famous tm and it's terrific. I'm so pleased for him. I found this album by hearing it in a movie, which, given how long I've known Dan, was intensely surreal. My heart lurched in joyful recognition, the scene in front of me utterly forgotten. And since, every time I listen to this song, I'm propelled back to the night he played the Main Stage of the Vancouver Folk Festival - the stars coming out over us, the crowd heaving, the way we stood together back stage, holding each other tight as we looked out over it all, squeezing me one last time before he took his guitar and stepped out under the lights. He was fire, he was metal melted and pouring into everyone in front of us. I felt like, yes, this is it. This is right, being able to be here and witness this - for chance to have put me right there, to be on this side of the fence, his personal photographer for the night, capturing all of the madness, the blaze of wild energy. When I helped him jump the fence and wade out into it mid-song, the sea parting, his voice soaring, I knew this was the rubicon. He was going to Make It in a way that we had always dreamed for him. He was going to escape. And it would be great.