So if he doesn't get to play Carnegie Hall, he just ups and drops the whole thing?
The article doesn't mention Carnegie Hall (or Lollapalooza, or Coachella, or any of representatives of their equivalence class). And in any case, that doesn't seem to have been the author's point, from my reading. If anything, it was the exact opposite of his point.
It became evident at an early age that I was not the next Jimmy Page.
Just as it must have been, at a certain point, manifestly evident to both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant that neither of them were the next Skip James. Not even a million, trillion miles from it. And yet... they just kept doing what they were doing.
The article doesn't mention Carnegie Hall (or Lollapalooza, or Coachella, or any of representatives of their equivalence class). And in any case, that doesn't seem to have been the author's point, from my reading. If anything, it was the exact opposite of his point.
It became evident at an early age that I was not the next Jimmy Page.
Just as it must have been, at a certain point, manifestly evident to both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant that neither of them were the next Skip James. Not even a million, trillion miles from it. And yet... they just kept doing what they were doing.
Do you see where this is getting at?