Garth Hudson gone. I liked my few moments with him, the Juno awards 35 years ago. I liked him slyly creeping over to my space during the rehearsal for their hall of fame performance. Blue Rodeo accompanying. Discreetly asking in cranky absent minded professor voice, “why don’t you.. not play.” I understood 100%. He’s the famous keyboardist, what am I doing here? I agree but nobody told me not to be the Blue Rodeo keyboard player plus I was excited about the surrealism to share the stage. I said I’ll turn my volume off. He said “Yeah that’s good”. So I was a mime that night pretending to play which suited me fine. I hope one day they introduce a “best live bullshitting” category. I want the retroactive medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"