Feb 22, 2021 Death By Rock and Roll

I feel the power of music surge through my soul. It holds me in its grip, My foot races to the beat, my body involuntarily flows with the rhythm and energy of the music. It is an awakening experience. I turn up the volume and feel the sounds surge through me.

The Pretty Reckless has finally released their new album, Death By Rock and Roll. I have listened to it for the last week. It has filled my airwaves since it came out on the fifteenth of February 2021, almost a year later than originally scheduled.  I haven’t felt this excited by a full album from an artist in twenty-five years. Thirteen songs and I love almost every one of them. Lead singer Taylor Momson, was little Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch with Jim Carrey twenty years ago. She has grown into a modern-day rock goddess.

Death By Rock and Roll tells a modern-day tragedy. The band was opening for Chris Cornell and Soundgarden when he committed suicide after the show.  Ten months later their manager died in a motorcycle crash.  The album is the story of how music saved Taylor and brought her back from the abyss.

Then Covid19 stopped the world.

Their tour stopped and they didn’t release their album. The world had to wait for the release of the album. I had to wait.

That long wait is over. I sit and sing along, I crank it loud. Sound fills the room and I appreciate being alive. Still, I crave the connection with a mass of people in attendance, everyone singing.

God, I miss concerts.

I missed what should have been the best concert of my life. Pink Pop in Holland June 21, 2020. The Pretty Reckless was going to be on the stage that afternoon.  Gun’s N Roses were headliners. It was to be the start of a twenty-six-day tour of Europe for my fiftieth spin around the sun. Alas, it was not meant to be… 

If people take the vaccine will we be able to carry on? Will we be able to go back to the way it was a mere twelve months ago?

Sometimes I dream about what could have been. Is it only a dream? Or will concerts return in 2021…

As the music fills my room, it fills my heart and fills my soul. I dream of concerts, I dream that one day soon we will connect in person, live and free.

Dare to dream…