In (rather morbid) honor of my rapidly-approaching 27th birthday, I decided to google all the musicians who died at 27. I knew about most of the main ones: Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Jim Morrison...
But little did I know, there's a huge list, starting near the end of the 19th century with composer Alexandre Levy and ending with Zambian musician Lilly Tembo, who died in earlier this year. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club,
http://the27club.the27s.com/Forever27.html) All of them died at 27.
And here I am, a few weeks from turning 27...
And about to release an album!
Hmm....
I guess I could argue that most of those people had a career by the time they were 27. I have no career yet (even though in about a month, those of you who buy the new Factory of Dreams album will see my name in the credits!). I've just kind of bounced around between bands, found random gigs with my friend and former jazz bandmate Sergey, and worked my ass off on a project called Legend's Ghost. But no international fame. Not yet.
So does that mean I'll finally get my record deal only to be killed in a plane crash on the first world tour? Or that someone is going to spike the CD release party whiskey with poison? I can probably avoid the drug overdose scenario pretty easily, seeing as I am not a heroin addict.
But either way, I am not waiting until I turn 28 to release this thing. I'm already obviously not 21 anymore, and I should release this thing before I get too much closer to 30...
I'll tempt fate if I must, but I am releasing this damn thing. And if the rock and roll gods figure out I'm 27, so be it. I just hope the album will do well enough that I'll at least get a good conspiracy theory afterwards.
But at the same time, I do want to see 2012...Just to see what the big fuss was. (And believe me, I do hope there's at least something...just not nuclear war, please...)
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Onwards and upwards.
Google all of the musicians that died at 90y old. That should make you feel better. Although, touring by automobile did take its toll on way too many traveling musicians.