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hey Chris, I just listened to your x-zone interview and I m really jazzed about the book. Can t wait to read it. I especially enjoyed the parts of your interview when you went into how the backbeat of rock can contain that magic that quickens the spirit, how it s analagous to the rising human hearbeat, etc. I think because music is sound/vibration/frequency and those are the building blocks of reality, in the right hands music can be infinitely powerful. Maybe that s why these themes and archetypes keep returning - they ARE us, and we are them. Therefore, maybe in the right hands (our own hands) we could be infinitely powerful too. Your interview reminded me again why and how much I love music. Peace.
Digging deeper into the modern mysteries of Rock 'n' Roll- the history, the archetypes, the music, the stars, the landmark albums quality inns and suites - as explored in The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll , published by Viva Editions.
Alt-History and Pop-Cult Symbology from the author of the Eagle Award-winning Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes, published by Red Wheel/Weiser and co-author of The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies, published by Insight Editions.