Letter #3 The Journey or The Destination?
Dear Bruce, You've spent a huge chunk of your life on the road and a number of your songs are about The Journey to some place (you hope is) better, but is The Journey the important thing or the Destination ? Of course being in a Rock and Roll band the Destination is important because you don't want to end up in Poughkeepsie if you are meant to be playing in Cleveland ! Yes, I know it's one of those deep questions that probably doesn't come with an easy answer. It's not like when we were kids and every five minutes we would annoy our parents with the "Are we there yet?" question. We just wanted to get to the beach or holiday park and not worry so much about what The Journey meant but for our parents it was a lesson in patience in putting up with us, making sure they travelled the correct roads and avoided any troubles and danger by staying focused on the road. It was all about The Journey for them but for us it was only the Destination that matt...