Ever since this summer, I've been haunted by David Pajo's performance of The Pretenders' "2000 Miles" at the gathering to remember Steve Abini. It was a warm summer Saturday, the wind blowing in hard off the lake. The gathering was a memorial and a celebration and it was a joyous melancholy that I feel like I'm still processing.
The whole weekend featured incredible performances, many of them brought me to tears, but this song.
This song.
This song.
It's so beautiful and sad and exactly right.
This Christmas Eve, I thought I'd share it with you.
(if for some reason the embed messes up it's at 1:04:54)
Published December 24, 2024. |
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