I go see bands every chance I get, and I live in New York City, where's there's plenty of chances. Live music is how I measure out the next week, month, year of my life. But on a bigger scale, the shows are how we measure history. When you picture the past or the future, you imagine what musicians are doing in a room and who shows up to hear it. You can define any point in the arc of human history by who was in Fleetwood Mac at the time. (And whose hotel bed they were sharing.) So what does music fandom mean at a time when we can't gather together to celebrate, discover, experiment?
-- Rob Sheffield, "Life Without Live"
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