Wilhelm Dautch and his twin brother Ron were expected to return to the concert venue over a half hour ago. Their band, German Blood, had been rehearsing for the final night of their U.S. concert tour when they decided to break for lunch and Ron and Wil decided to take a short tour of San Diego. It was more like the downtown shopping district. They wandered...
Life is full of the unforeseen—twists and turns and ironies that crop up when we least expect it. What happened to me recently underscores the point. First, let me take you back, way back to the late fall of 1965 at a place called the Baltimore Civic Center and a rock group called the Rolling Stones. The Stones were on their second American tour that Novemb...
Sarah kept me waiting, but she was worth the wait. Black hair, white summer coat, black tights, and black four inch heels which still left her a good six inches shorter than I am. A while back, going to a concert would have meant at least a suit and tie for me, and something close to an evening dress for my date. At least for places like the Royal Albert H...
It'd been three months since my old guitar had been stolen from the back of car, and it took me weeks to get over my anger. While it was more than thirty years old, its rich tones seemed to better with age. I owned three guitars, but the one stolen had been my favourite by far. Sure, the insurance paid out on it after a bit of squabbling but I knew in my hea...
After our early morning session, we got ready to go out and were soon on our way. Donna was again wearing shorts and a tank top, though today she had on a pair of very small denim shorts that showed off her legs nicely. We grabbed a bagel at the local bakery, and headed for Arkansas. We stopped at the chapel in Bella Vista, Donna admiring the work of Fay J...
“Fifty States in fifty days! Are you fucking insane?” Nick shouted into the phone in disbelief. Great publicity or not, he did not like the idea of that many tour dates stacked back to back. “Think about it, Nick,” Jerome, Nick’s agent, pleaded. “Tears of My Soul, is a great album, but to get on Billboard, we need to market it. The dates are lined up and th...
The first time Kevin Roach was mistaken for Tommy Ross he was in the White Lion. The mistake's maker approached him when he was at the bar, getting in a round of drinks for himself and his workmates. She had bobbed red hair and neat, pretty features and she wore a T-shirt displaying her allegiance to the rock band White Noise. 'Sorry to bother you,' the new...
--- Changes. Less than a year of time has flown by... and yet it seemed to stream back a millennium. How exactly do you describe such changes as those I had experienced? The answer of course, is you can't... to my gentle readers, who have been pulled along by my words, thank you for sharing what I learned, what I felt... what I lived. But I had changed... an...
"Hey Bill, are you coming out to the concert this weekend?" Dave, my best friend, asked over the phone. "I don't know, Dave. I'm pretty down still and don't think I'll be good company." Truth to tell, I hadn't left my apartment much in the past week other than to go to work. "Shit, don't tell me this is still about Lisa? I never did like that bitch." "Ye...
Laura had Steve lie on a gurney in the ER as she pulled the curtain closed around it. She took a pair of scissors and deftly cut his pants from his body. "Gwen, please get his shoes and socks off. We need to examine him closely, as well as x-ray him. Steve, can you tell me of any pain or injuries that I can't see?" "My shoulder hurts and my leg aches, but y...