The older I get, the more I deal with this same thing… Funny thing is that there are many things that really don’t matter that I can fully remember without having to memorize, yet there are other things that I want to remember that I actually have trouble remembering… Remembering the notes to songs falls into the second category for me…
Wasn’t hard to remember anything when I was younger, but after almost 70 years of use, the grey matter appears to have reached it’s “Full” capacity… Apparently when I was 35 years old, I must have reached my “half-full” brain capacity. I suppose had I have realized this back then, I might have slowed down trying to cram as much crap into that grey matter over the last 35 years. Yup, should have slowed down a bit and tried to save what little space I had left up there so I could have more room to remember the notes to the last song I played just last week! Bummer…!
I suppose I could try and “clean out” a little extra space in the old “upstairs closet”, by removing anything that doesn’t make sense or appears useless to me, but then my wife would be on my ass for not remembering to “put the toilet seat down”, or “not putting my dishes in the sink”, or “not emptying the trash”… NOT an option…
Then again I suppose I could try removing any of the things that DO make sense to me like “how to make really good moonshine”, or “the proper and safe procedure for lighting a fart”, but then I’d loose the respect of my old Navy Submarine buddies and grandkids… Also NOT an option!
So, given the times we live in today I figured that by removing any and all memory of anything having to do with politics; pandemics; weather; world crisis; religion; or the Kardashians, that I’d have more than enough room to remember as many songs as I’d ever need to remember in this lifetime here on planet earth… however… once my wife realized that I had a little space cleared out upstairs, she took it all up by teaching me how to “LOAD THE GAHDAM DISHWASHER!”
So, take it from firsthand experience @biohazz65,… Wouldn’t you much rather spend what little time you have left here on planet earth getting a little tired of playing the same song over rather than… loading a gahdam dishwasher!
Oh, next bit of advise… if you’re hard of hearing like I am, don’t buy a hearing aid… but that’s another story…
Keep on Thumpin’!
Lanny