Rick Hulett: Blog

That's really all I want. Good gigs where I get to play and lose myself in it. Since almost dying I think I play differently. I know now deep in my bones that this is all going to end. Everything we know, the way your face looks, your friends,  your family, everything you know, it's all going to have an end. It's finite. The number of gigs I have left to play in my life is finite and winding down. Maybe it's a few years worth, maybe it's 20 years worth, I don't know, but I know it's a finite number.This could be the last time.

These days when I play, I seem to play from that knowledge. I try and dig down deep into that place, immerse myself, bathe in it. Sometimes I'm distracted and I can't stay there very long, but other times I go deep and I hit something. That's what I want, more of that, all the time more. I'm searching, to see what I can find.

I just had a string of good gigs and I'm looking at some more coming up. I love this music stuff. I love getting my gear ready and loading it in the car, scoping out the location, hanging out before the gig, that special moment of ESP between band members during a song, hanging out and reliving the moments after the gig. I love it all. I want to drink it all in for as long as I can. Because really it's all about the moments. So I say make moments. Make this next batch good moments that you'll remember. Even though you'll die and probably won't be able to remember it, just do it anyway. Just do it because really why not? What do you have to lose? Laugh right smack dab in the face of adversity because you have a choice. Choose to be unafraid and take it head on and just party on, party on.