SCREAM

I was into Elvis as a little kid, but then in 1977 at the age of 11 I heard a song on the radio. The DJ never announced who it was, but whoever it was I was hooked. A month later a kid was talking to me about a certain band he liked and he mentioned the song. When he sang it my jaw dropped. It was called "Beth" and it was by a band named KISS. A few months later I got ALIVE and then ALIVE II and then the rest of the collection. Saw them at Madison Square Garden when I was 13, and it was unreal. Funny thing though was the amount of abuse I went through because I liked that band, but it taught me to stand up for myself and my beliefs and that's helped throughout life. Then I got turned onto HEART (their 70's stuff), VAN HALEN, QUEEN and then some jazz. Bands like RETURN TO FOREVER were great, but that was more Fusion. I like a lot of the new stuff coming out now, and I even saw Manson in concert two years ago, but he bored the hell out of me. He does a few intersting things live, but for the most part no one realy moves on that stage. It's like they have their spots and that's it. When I was in the ministry back in the 1980's people freaked when I would wear my KISS shirts to a twig, but my attitude was" "They're just a rock band." And when I met Paul Stanely on two occasions he was nicer to me than any Reverened in the ministry as well.