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vide the content then you don’t have a busi- thing now. There are 7 billion people on this thing to eat, can you take care of me, will
ness.” planet. What the hell are we supposed to do you?” It’s just so strange. I see my friends’
‘Souls In The Machine’ isn’t just about with ourselves? I don’t know… Sometimes kids who are teenagers and a lot of them
the record industry though. John says, I wonder if there’s ever going to be a back- just seem so lonely, because although
“After I wrote that I was like, “No, this is big- lash against technology because I think it’s there’s more connection than ever through
ger than this, it goes out to all human be- really caused a lot of anxiety in human be- a machine, there’s less connection because
ings.” People need to understand that ings because the technological revolution of the machine. I think that’s why going to
there’s a certain… the idiosyncrasies of is moving so much quicker than the evolu- concerts and live music and all this is
being a human is what makes life beautiful. tion of humans. It’s causing people a lot of something that can never be created in the
Precision isn’t perfection. Perfection isn’t discomfort and anxiety. I can’t keep up with box, and I think that’s why people love live
always necessarily beauty.” technology.” music and it can’t be sucked into the ma-
Are there many souls in the machine? We tell John we agree. One example is chine, because people need that contact
“Every single one of us,” answers the self-service tills in Newark Airport’s with each other.”
John. “And everyone needs to understand food court. It seems there aren’t many We wholeheartedly agree.
their value in it. The human being, I just cashiers there anymore. First airports Go see Goo Goo Dolls on tour. They
don’t understand… I grew up in a really started making you check in on your own, live, they breathe, the sing, they play,
blue collar, working class town, Buffalo, NY, now they’re making you buy and pay for the they’re real – and they will make YOU feel
where it was all heavy industry, and it all food in the food courts on your own. We are ‘So Alive’ too. The band play the UK in Oc-
shut down. What were people supposed to not a fan of that! tober. Their 11th studio album, ‘Boxes’, is
do? They had to reinvent themselves. I just “I live right by Newark Airport and I hate out now.
don’t understand why the people in charge, those things,” John agrees. “I always push
or the people who run the stupid planet, it the button to make the waitress come, Words By Shari Black Velvet
just seems as though there’s a big push on ‘cause I’m like, “No, I’m not playing this
to eliminate the human element in every- game. I just want a cup of coffee and some- Photos By Bob Mussel

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