I’m not really one to use this blog to just re-hash content that is already published on the web. I think it is cheap and easy and unoriginal to use a blog as such – I would rather read what the blog is writing, view their photos, or their artwork, or whatever.
So I apologize for this post, as it is really nothing more than a link to a YouTube video of Michael Hedges playing Because It’s There. For some reason, I was thinking of Michael tonight, and where I was when I learned that he had died.
It was December 3, 1997, and I was in Center City Philadelphia attending a training session at CoreStates for a couple of days. Specifically, the training was way up on the upper floors of a building on Walnut Street between 5th and 6th, overlooking Independence Hall. I was on a lunch break, and had walked down to 8th and Walnut to pick up the engagement ring I was planning to give to Edith in NYC on the 6th. I then walked up 8th, and was crossing Market Street, listening to Because It’s There in my head. I’ve liked this song since I first heard in on a Windham Hill Sampler CD sometime in the mid-80’s I would swear there were two people playing, but Michael was just an incredible guitarist.