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Sep. 4th, 2002 03:46 pm"You can hear the story in any of a thousand bars where musicians gather to drink: Take your guitar to the crossroads at midnight, and the Man will meet you there. He'll ask if he can play a few licks, and if you let him, after he's done you can play like nobody has before. You've probably heard of how Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, any number of people have met the Man at Midnight, and how they made it big afterward.
"Of course, they usually mention that there's a price: Almost everybody that's met the Man has died young or tragic in some way. But what's a few years of mortal life compared to immortal fame, hey?
"They just don't tell you that's not the only price you might pay. If you're not lucky enough, when the Man dies, you take his place. And the price of becoming the Man is that you always were the Man. All traces of your life before becoming the Man are gone, and forgotten, even to you. All you know is that you used to be somebody.
"I miss knowing what my songs used to be."
-From the thought journal of the Man at Midnight, Baron of the Crossroads (former name lost)
"Of course, they usually mention that there's a price: Almost everybody that's met the Man has died young or tragic in some way. But what's a few years of mortal life compared to immortal fame, hey?
"They just don't tell you that's not the only price you might pay. If you're not lucky enough, when the Man dies, you take his place. And the price of becoming the Man is that you always were the Man. All traces of your life before becoming the Man are gone, and forgotten, even to you. All you know is that you used to be somebody.
"I miss knowing what my songs used to be."
-From the thought journal of the Man at Midnight, Baron of the Crossroads (former name lost)
