New Site

I just got clydesaxtonband.com set up and running here on Tumblr. I played this summer with the band and it was a blast. We played parades and a couple concerts and I must admit, it was just like I never stopped playing. I missed the rush so much and it was so nice to feel the steel on my shoulders, have the sticks in my hands, and feel the power of my new (to me) Yamaha SFZ marching snare. 

I bought the domain for clydesaxtonband.com and I’m using Tumblr and Facebook and Twitter to create a nice little presence for the band. Apparently the band has a long history, some of which a band member was kind enough to email me along with some photos. I figure I can get a nice shell up there and then I will only be left to update the yearly schedule. At our last parade (last weekend) I took some videos as we marched toward the parade route that I will post. There are some short videos of previous years on youtube.com already.

This group has a very long history and I thought it would be fun to get it into digital format for future generations. It’s cool (to me) that this groups has survived so long and it struck me as cool that I could play a role in preserving something for the future.

I’ve posted similar thoughts to this before, but I think it’s completely insane that long after we are all gone, someone will (likely) be able to get digital records of all this stuff, right at their fingertips. I would be blown away to be able to watch something my relatives did 100 years ago. 

So anyway, it’s late and I’m off on another tangent about legacy and the future. I’m sitting here thinking how amazing it is that someone could be reading this 100 years from now. Maybe they are asking themselves why they are up too late reading some silly dead-guy’s blog post. 

I think this kind of thought process is very important for my children’s generation. Their digital records will be everywhere and forever. How can I help them understand that the wisdom of pictures they post to the internet of them doing keg stands in high school may not seem so wise when they are 30 or when a potential employer is searching for their name on the internet. 

While I envy my children and the digital world they are entering, it blows my mind to think about all the pitfalls they will face and all the questions they will have to answer. It seems like we are moving to a world of all data, all access, all the time. 

I think living in such a world will require a major shift in our mentality towards ourselves, our legacy, and the information we wish so share with the connected world.