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There may be a few names history will remember that I've forgotten, so forgive me if you happened to have made REAL history here and I left you out.

HISTORY HUMBLED ME HERE.  It's keeps humbling me every time my ego tries to take center stage.  Fate was trying to tell me something when I couldn't get enough lightening on this photo I took of myself.  I was being overshadowed by REAL history.  Of course my disdain for fame is no secret (ha ha), but I feel sorry for anybody who came here to record at the last minute in hopes of being a significant part of the history that the old place represents.  Unless you've created a masterpiece here, you'll be forgotten.  Position in line doesn't matter to history.  Only art does. 

IT'S HISTORY VS. HYPE. 

Those of us who got our boots in the door at the last minute (whether for noble or narcissistic reasons) better leave any hopes of making history at the very door we stepped into at the last minute.  We must prepare ourselves, instead, to be humbled by the REAL history of the old place Buck created from an old movie theatre. 

You won't be remembered simply by being the last one, or even among the last ones to record here.  Your work must stand on its own---like the works of Buck Owens and Homer Joy.  Your work must stand upon against years of devoted engineering skills that Jim Shaw put into the place, your work must rise to the level of the tireless efforts of Korn.  These are giants.  They are tough acts to follow.  At the very least, us last-minute-foot-in-the-door soldiers will be a mere footnote. 

Unless our intent was, (or has become) to shine a light to shine upon the hard working heroes of yore who made REAL history here, we'll be reduced to the level of fools fading into the dark of night.    

Are you history or hype?  I don't want to be a footnote, do you?  Let's learn from the giants that came before us and make new history.