Greetings From the Ghost of Heavy Metal Rock and Roll...

Hi.  

How are you?

press play and then come back and read me.  

Did you know this song was a letter to you from me, the ghost of heavy metal rock and roll. Kinda corny right?  Well that's how I feel about myself. Sometimes I feel like an apparition, a ghost in your head...  it's getting lonely here at rock and roll inc. as there's not many of us left. Most have fled, or died or moved to the suburbs, retired from the biz, so to speak. God knows, I couldn't blame them.  A more turbulent, screwed up line of work you'll be hard pressed to find. This isn't for the faint of heart. You gotta want it.  Most days, I still do.  

Anyhoo...I was thinking about you the other day, remembering olden times from centuries come and gone and I wanted to reach out and see how you're getting along now and low and behold, out fell this song. It's just for the two of us, but then again maybe there's some universality to it also.  I wanted to say come back to rock and roll old friends, we're here for you.  Do you remember rock and roll--c'mon man.  We were the best of friends!  Do you remember being a teenager and feeling so much despair and then getting an embrace from your favorite Clash song, or the Replacements or U2 or Violent Femmes or the Smiths and feeling somehow renewed--ok just enough to not give up all hope and fall into the very heart of the heart of darkness.  We here at rock and roll inc haven't abandoned you, nor will we ever! so yeah, that's the universal part.  And then there's the very personal, the me+you part is as such written "I'm here to show you love, like when we were younger, you swept me under, we were the best of friends." So, that dear old friend is for you.  You can have that. You're welcome.  You can stow that one away putting it in the box in your closet and please from time to time do unearth it when you are an old, old woman and show it to your great grandchildren.  "I had a friend once, a long, long time ago..."  and finally, there's a line about our departed mothers "Do you realize with your mothers prayers tonight, you're still alive. Know i'll be here til the end of time."  a huh.  Nodding head with vigor and some sentimentality indeed.  That's your prayer at bedtime, your daily affirmation dear old friend.

singing off for now.  

your friend til the end,

Felsen.

ps.  hey i've got a gig you should come by.  it'll be fun.  like old times.